(This post is written by PCIJ Interns Mike Viray and Jodelyn Recierdo.) THE AQUINO administration may have bitten off more than it can chew. No less than President Benigno Simeon Aquino III has promised to build his “Social Contract with the Filipino...

The Right to Know, Right Now! Coalition is asking President Benigno Aquino III to reconsider his administration's non-inclusion of the Freedom of Information Bill in the list of legislative priorities that it is submitting to Congress. Media and...

Part 4 of our series on the Office of the Ombudsman reveals the similarly poor to modest records of service of Gutierrez and her three predecessors from 1988, namely Conrado M.Vasquez, Aniano A. Desierto, and Simeon V. Marcelo.  All four chiefs of the...

Part 3 tells about the seemingly conflicted policies and practices on access to information and transparency in the Office of the Ombudsman under Gutierrez – how she and her deputies seem so stingy with data on one hand, while she keeps a high profile...

Records show that less than one in every 10 persons convicted of corruption since 2001 has actually been jailed. Worse, of the 14 persons with court-issued jail sentences, only seven are actually serving time. And worst of all, of the seven in jail,...

Who has been jailed for corruption? Not many. In fact, only a few one could count them by the fingers. And certainly, not any one of senior rank among elective and appointive officials from any of the branches of government, nor a single star-rank...

Chiranuch Premchaiporn, executive director and moderator of the Thai news website Pratachai.com, is facing up to 50 years' imprisonment for violating the country's Computer Crime Act 2007 (CCA). The trial of Premchaiporn, the first webmaster tried under...