IT REALLY IS indeed diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks as Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism Executive Director Malou Mangahas aptly wrote in her April 5 article, "Repentant, reticent, rude," on how local Philippine officials reacted to a...

THE DATU system, an ancient political and social structure that has defined much of the history of the southern Philippines, provides continuity between a proud past and the tumultuous present in Maguindanao. Yet it is one that has radically evolved --...

OVER THE LAST forty years, the seat of power in the province of Maguindanao has moved location six times, or just about anywhere its governor wishes o hold office. It has been a virtual "capitol on wheels." "The problem we have observed in Maguindanao...

WHEN one talks about politics and elections in Maguindanao, one will have to reckon with the clans, too. Or, a web of clans to be exact. A spider couldn't have spun a more complicated fabric of power: an interlocking network of a dozen families that...

By Emily Menkes The Global Muckraker http://www.icij.org/blog THE investigative series of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) on offshore secrecy - which draws from a cache of 2.5 million secret records - has ignited...

By Emily Menkes The Global Muckraker http://www.icij.org/blog THIS week marks the beginning of one of the biggest financial leaks in history. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has just released the first stories from a...

SENATOR MANUEL 'Manny' B. Villar Jr. and Congressman Joseph Victor 'JV' G. Ejercito are from rival political coalitions. Villar played a lead role in the impeachment and eventual ouster from the presidency of Ejercito's father Joseph Estrada. In the...