By Che de los Reyes
THEY WERE warned to watch out, and now they are bound to cry.
According to the Commission on Elections (Comelec), nearly 400 local candidates in the 2010 and 2013 elections may soon be facing charges of campaign overspending,...
IT'S been several weeks after journalists from Asia and other parts of the world gathered in Manila for Uncovering Asia: The First Asian Investigative Journalism Conference.
In this video by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Media Programme, we look back at...
By Cong B. Corrales
WHILE various political and economic issues have dogged the country this year, a big majority of Filipinos still maintain a hopeful outlook for next year, a recent survey by a creditable pollster showed.
The Pulse Asia Research’s...
THE WORLD in 2014 has been most bloody and most cruel to both journalists and citizen-journalisis.
In all, according to Reporters Without Borders (RWB or Reporters Sans Frontieres), the numbers are most grave:
* Killed: 66 journalists, 19...
By Global Financial Integrity
A RECORD US$991.2 billion in illicit capital flowed out of developing and emerging economies in 2012, facilitated by crime, corruption, and tax evasion, according to the latest study released Tuesday by Global Financial...
For witnesses in the Ampatuan Massacre
By Cong B. Corrales
THE CULTURE of impunity continues to reign in the Philippines.
Media organizations and human rights advocates condemned the recent attack on another witness to the Ampatuan...
...and FPJ's daughter are among the top five in the presidential race
By Julius D. Mariveles
AN EX-PRESIDENT convicted of plunder, a vice-president accused of corruption, the solon-daughter of an action star, a politician engaged to a movie star,...
