Thirty-three international organizations who are members of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX) have called on the Burmese government and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to "ensure freedom of expression, access to...

On Wednesday, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) launched the Philippine report of the 2010 Open Budget Index (OBI), which seeks to measure how transparent and accountable governments are with budget information. The country’s...

Our latest report by PCIJ Research Director Karol Anne Ilagan reveals the not-so-cheery score of 55 (out of a perfect score of 100) that the Philippines obtained in the the 2010 Open Budget Index, a survey of budget transparency and accountability in 94...

Part 2 of our report looks further into the unsettled issues that had been raised by the Incident Investigation and Review Committee (IIRC) on the circumstances that led to the hostage-taking incident last August 23. Few would dispute that there is no...

Our latest story is a two-part report looks at some unsettled issues that were brought up in the report of the Incident Investigation and Review Committee (IIRC) on the circumstances that led to the hostage-taking incident by Police senior Inspector...

Our latest report reveals the contents of the unpublished portions of the 82-page report of the Incident Investigation and Review Committee (IIRC) about the Rizal Park Hostage-taking Incident. It discusses as well how, by the accounts of informed sources,...

FRIENDS and family paid tribute to Alecks Pardo Pabico, the former Multimedia Director of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, on the first anniversary of his death. Alecks, the man many have described as journalism's gentle warrior,...