Archive for April, 2013

AS OF LAST April 10, P1,320,116,506.81 worth of political ads had already been aired, published, and booked for and by 21 of the 33 senatorial candidates, and 20 political parties and party-list groups. Print and broadcast media agencies have submitted...

Vendiola: 130th journalist killed since 1986 ANOTHER BROADCASTER was shot and killed Monday morning in Barangay Salipyasin, Kabasalan town, Zamboanga Sibugay province. Mario Vendiola, more popularly known in his radio program as Kuya Mar, was...

More than 200 students and faculty members attended the first leg of the Maguindanao on-campus series in the University of the Philippines - Los Banos FOR MORE THAN two decades now, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) has been...

HONEST, orderly, peaceful, and credible elections on May 13, 2013 -- that is at core the duty and burden of the boots on ground of the Commission on Elections. Will they prove themselves equal to the task? What worries, what inspires them? We checked it...

HONEST, orderly, peaceful, and credible elections on May 13, 2013 -- that is at core the duty and burden of the boots on ground of the Commission on Elections. Will they prove themselves equal to the task? What worries, what inspires them? We checked it...

The pre-eminent force or agency in the land, in this season of elections, is none other than the Commission on Elections or Comelec. Unlike election bodies in other jurisdictions, however, the Philippines' Comelec carries the double burden of...

CULTURAL NUANCES, economic and historical contexts, and a bewildering political milieu - understanding all these factors and how they relate to each other is the only way one can hope to understand the persistence of political clans and their continued...