MANNY PACQUIAO is busy these days.
The Pambansang Kamao or the Pacman, as he is popularly known in the Philippines, is headed for California this week to promote the documentary film "Manny," which, you guessed it, is about his rise as a...
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January 15, 2015 · Posted in: Access to Information, Civil Society, Congress Watch, Data Journalism, Disaster Aid, Governance, Local Government, Money Politics, Noynoy Watch, Paper Chase, Peace and Conflict
WITHOUT A DOUBT, the Philippine government has tried to match nearly peso for peso the massive amounts of donations that foreign governments, donor agencies, corporate entities, and citizens of the world have raised for the victims of super typhoon...
January 14, 2015 · Posted in: Access to Information, Disaster Aid, Governance, In the News, Internet, Investigative Reports, Local Government, Money Politics, Noynoy Watch, Paper Chase, Peace and Conflict
EXACTLY three months after Yolanda struck central Philippines, the government launched a worldwide campaign to thank everyone who had rushed to the country's aid in the super typhoon’s aftermath.
Print and TV ads, as well as billboards in nine...
January 13, 2015 · Posted in: Access to Information, Civil Society, Disaster Aid, Freedom of Information, Governance, Investigative Reports, Local Government, Money Politics, Noynoy Watch, Online Research, Paper Chase, Peace and Conflict, State of Emergency, The Economy, The Internet
DISASTER AID in the time of super typhoons like Yolanda has fortuitously flowed richly, quickly, and from a bounty of donors without fail to assist Filipino families and communities in need. On parallel stream, public funds devoted to relief,...
By Cong B. Corrales
BARELY a week into the year and another journalist is slain in the Philippines.
As the world mourns the brutal attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, here in the Philippines the reign of the culture of impunity continues...
Incident single deadliest attack on journalists since the 2009 Ampatuan Massacre
By Cong B. Corrales
INTERNATIONAL journalists groups and freedom of expression advocates condemned the brutal shooting that killed 12 people at the editorial...