THERE WILL BE no "yellow ribbons" tied to the tress in the island province of Camiguin after this year's midterm elections. Unlike most of the provinces across the country where Team P-Noy's Liberal Party (LP) dominated the 2013 Midterm Elections last...

HERE'S A QUICK QUIZ for those of you who were around during the EDSA revolt (and even after) courtesy of the MoneyPolitics project of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. How long did Salvador "Doy" Laurel serve as Prime Minister of the...

text and photos by Cong B. Corrales JOURNALISTS AND MEDIA WORKERS held a photo exhibit, ecumenical prayer and candle-lighting ceremony on Thursday (May 23) in New Manila, Quezon City to remember the victims of the grisly Ampatuan Massacre that...

IN ONE POLLING PRECINCT in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, poll watchers looked on in horror as a local leader locked himself in the precinct and proceeded to shade ballots meant for other voters. The local official was able to shade a stack...

WHO DOES NOT KNOW the balimbing, that many-sided Philippine fruit that has come to represent the worst of turncoatism in Philippine politics. But the balimbing syndrome in Philippine politics has its roots from way back, although it was only...

THE HOME MINISTER of Malaysia has confiscated copies of two major opposition publications Harakah and Suara Keadilan, in various states, the independent online newspaper Malaysiakini reported. ?Malaysiakini, quoting Harakah’s online news site,...

TWO opposition leaders in Malaysia were arrested separately today, May 23, for alleged sedition, over their role in protest actions over the ruling party's supposed resort to fake ballots and other irregularities in the May 5, 2013 elections there,...