Archive for January, 2015

How much additional budget for "calamities" went to the provinces This infographic by PCIJ deputy multimedia producer Cong B. Corrales shows us how much additional budget from the P14.6 billion supplemental went to the provinces. Click on any of the...

HOW much went to what government agency? [caption id="attachment_17696" align="aligncenter" width="500"] INFOGRAPHICS by Cong B. Corrales[/caption] Check out our disaster aid stories below. [<a href="//storify.com/PCIJdotOrg/di"...

IFJ: Philippines ‘epicenter of impunity’ By Cong B. Corrales Five is a ludicrous number. Especially  when it refers to the years since the single deadliest attack on the Fourth Estate happened, yet justice remains elusive. Five years ago, on...

The conflict in Maguindanao THE social media and coffeeshops are abuzz with talk over President Benign S. Aquino III's admission yesterday, January 28, that there was a lack of coordination in the clash that killed more than 40 policemen in southern...

SEVERAL days after the deadly encounter between members of the National Police' Special Action Force and soldiers of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in Mamasapano, Maguindanao, President Benigno S. Aquino III will address the nation. What will he...

THESE are the top five government agencies with unused relief funds after Typhoon Yolanda (international codename Haiyan) struck the Philippines last year. By now, the destruction wrought by the strongest typhoon ever recorded in modern Philippine...

TODAY'S papers reported that one of the suspects in the mauling of actor Vhong Navarrao last year was arrested by the justice department's National Bureau of Investigation. Ferdinand Guerrero was nabbed in a Makati City condominium along Ayala...