THE VARIOUS controversies facing his administration have triggered a significant drop in the approval and trust ratings of President Benigno S. Aquino III between March and June 2014, according to the latest Ulat ng Bayan national survey of the creditable...

FROM HARD NEWS to hard labor. Regional media groups have condemned what they called the "inhumane sentence" by a Burmese court of four journalists and their boss to ten years of hard labor for violating Burma's State Secrets Act. On Thursday,...

THERE ARE those who say that Freedom of Information (FOI) is not a "sexy" topic, and that many people would rather talk about issues of food and shelter than issues about information. Not so, say veteran and award-winning photojournalists who have...

They came, they had fun, they had selfies. Over the weekend, however, concerned members of the country's youth came together to take a serious position that had nothing to do with having their best angles to the camera. Participants in the First...

LEAVE IT to the youth to produce a catchy and easy-to-understand primer on the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill, that controversial measure whose importance some government officials apparently still can not or will not comprehend. The 7-minute video...

MORE THAN an act of contrition or an apology, a simple act of transparency and a firm gesture of accountability on how the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) funds were disbursed is what the Department of Budget and Management owes the Filipino...

CAN MALACANANG invoke "good faith" in the implementation of the controversial Development Acceleration Program (DAP) when President Benigno S. Aquino III himself knew that such impounding mechanisms were prone to abuse, and had even proposed...