IT PASSED last Tuesday, Nov. 27, with 17 lawmakers voting for, and only three others against, at a hearing of the Committee on Public Information of the House of Representatives. Three days ago, in fact, the committee report on the Freedom of...

THE BUREAU of Internal Revenue on Thursday filed a P28-million tax evasion complaint against a lawyer of Andal Ampatuan Jr., a principal accused in the Maguindanao Massacre case. Last week, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, in a...

THE COURT OF APPEALS on Tuesday nullified the creation of a Justice Department panel that recommended the filing of criminal charges against former Palawan Governor Joel Reyes and his brother Mario for the murder of environmentalist and radio broadcaster...

MORE and bigger youth and student organizations in campuses across the nation added their voices yesterday to the popular clamor for the swift passage of the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill in the 15th Congress. Amid a small victory of sorts with...

THE LONG-AWAITED Freedom of Information bill finally squeezed past the House Committee on Public Information today amid failed attempts by several legislators to derail the measure, or insert a Right of Reply (ROR) provision into the bill. Manila's...

PRESIDENT BENIGNO S. AQUINO III has ordered a probe into reports that several members of the Ampatuan clan have been endorsed by the ruling Liberal Party (LP) for the 2013 local elections, media organizations reported on Tuesday. The probe comes in...

OVER 300 student leaders of the University of the Philippines (UP) in Diliman have issued this single message to Congress: We DARe U: Pass the Freedom of Information bill now! In a manifesto issued to coincide with the hearing on the FOI bill scheduled...