Archive for December, 2010

December 15, 2010 · Posted in: Environment Watch

The protectors of Mt. Kitanglad

Our latest series include stories about the great strides in community action to preserve two of the Philippines’ most cherished protected areas – Mount Kitanglad in Malaybalay, Bukidnon province, and the Tubbataha Reef off Palawan province. In...

(Photo from the AFF Suzuki Cup website.) IN A basketball-crazy country, it’s a minor miracle that the Philippine sports spotlight now shines on the Philippine football team. Its Azkals nickname – given in 2005 by a small but rabid Internet...

awardees smile for a souvenir photo (from the DAJA website) Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism fellow Roel Landingin recently bagged the second runner-up prize from the Developing Asia Journalism Awards 2010 (DAJA) sponsored by the...

December 7, 2010 · Posted in: General

SEAPA has a new director

The Board of Trustees of the Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) has named Ms. Gayathry Venkiteswaran, a Malaysian, as its new executive director. She will manage the operations of the Bangkok-based secretariat which coordinates the regional...

Veteran journalist Roel Landingin, PCIJ fellow and Manila senior correspondent of the Financial Times of London, won on Tuesday the Population and Development (PopDev) Media Award for best investigative report for his story, “Sharp spike in Maguindanao,...