INDONESIAN CIVIL SOCIETY GROUPS expressed concern over their government's implementation of its commitments to the Open Governmetn Partnership (OGP) program, saying Jakarta's international image of transparency and openness is not consistent with its...

HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYERS from the Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) have asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its earlier reversal of an award for civil damages to victims of human rights abuses under the Marcos regime and exonerating several former...

IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS, Manila's newspapers have been peppered with stories of Palace officials expressing apprehension over reports that the population data and the voters list for both Maguindanao province and the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao...

POSITIVE FEEDBACK towards the two-part report released by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism regarding government efforts to stamp out corruption at the Department of Public Works and Highways continue  to pour in a week after it was...

A FORTNIGHT ago, the PCIJ conducted the second of three seminar-workshops for 2012 on media killings and the culture of impunity in the Philippines. Twenty reporters, editors, and producers of print, broadcast, and online media in Metro Manila and other...

THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN Press Alliance (SEAPA) has called on the Indonesian government to investigate the death of a local journalist who was killed while on a commercial flight in Indonesian Papua. In a statement, the regional network of media...

THE PHILIPPINE CENTER for Investigative Journalism's series of stories on ongoing reforms in the bidding of public works contracts generated positive responses from readers already weary of stories of corruption and anomalies. The PCIJ had just...