POLITICS in the Philippines is stuck in a three-year cycle of elections.
But it shouldn't be. Politics should be an everyday affair for Filipinos. Politics, after all, should not be about electing people every three years; it should be about guarding...
December 24, 2013 · Posted in: General
SINCE THE Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism launched its MoneyPolitics Online website in the middle of 2013, thousands of scholars, academics, civil society leaders, and even government officials have browsed through the database for a peek...
HELP REBUILD their homes, employ their parents, fix their schools, and give them school supplies.
These wishes top the priority list of the children whose lives and homes had been devastated by super typhoon Yolanda.
The wind, the waves, and even...
THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN PRESS ALLIANCE (SEAPA) has condemned the filing by Thai authorities of criminal charges against two journalists for alleged violations of the country's controversial Computer Crimes Act.
The two journalists, Alan Morison and Chutima...
EVERYONE SEEMS quite familiar by now with that sentence often heard in the news: So-and-so has declared a state of calamity...
Unfortunately, the implications of that sentence usually just pass over most people's heads. When a state of calamity is...
DECEMBER 9 was International Anti-Corruption Day, and only those who have been hiding under a rock would be unaware just how big a corruption issue the pork barrel scandal had been in 2013.
Obviously, the next question should be: What next?
As part...
