DID HE or didn’t he? In the course of gathering the Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN) filed by Rep. Juan Miguel ‘Mikey’ Arroyo since he became a public servant in 1992, the PCIJ noticed that the one for 2003 and a...

THE recent acquittal of the primary suspect in the 2006 murder of Palawan radio broadcaster Fernando ‘Dong” Batul has journalists in that province up in arms. Palawan journalist Redempto Anda, for one, thinks that the acquittal highlights the...

Our latest report inquires into the steadily rising fortunes yet also steadily shrinking taxes paid by Ang Galing Pinoy Rep. Juan Miguel ‘Mikey’ Arroyo and wife Ma. Angela Montenegro Arroyo, now the subject of a P73.85-million tax evasion complaint...

IMAGINE an eight-year-old child actively taking part in the Moro rebellion, either as a fighter, a runner, or a spy. It sounds like a movie plot, but the incredible turned out to be true, as discovered in Mindanao by the United Nations Children’s...

Our latest report seeks to offer context, from history and jurisprudence, on the net-worth method that the Bureau of Internal Revenue employed in the P73.58-million tax evasion case that it filed today against Ang Galing Pinoy Rep. Juan Miguel "Mikey"...

Pulitzer Prize-winning Filipino-American journalist Alex Tizon, who did a one-year stint with the PCIJ as a fellow, has been named one of the recipients of the 2011 J. Anthony Lukas Project Awards for exceptional non-fiction. Tizon received the J....

Another "surprise witness" surfaced during this week's Senate Blue Ribbon Committee investigation into the alleged corruption in the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Retired Lt. Col. Romeo Mateo was presented before the senators in order to confirm...