August 18, 2015 · Posted in: 2016 Elections, Campaign Finance, Congress Watch, Freedom of Information, Governance, Investigative Reports, Jejomar C Binay, Local Government, Money Politics, Noynoy Watch
AS THINGS stand, it looks like the ruling coalition led by the Liberal Party (LP) of President Benigno S. Aquino III has more members implicated in the pork-barrel scandal than parties belonging to the opposition. Of the 114 legislators who were...
August 17, 2015 · Posted in: 2016 Elections, Campaign Finance, Congress Watch, Freedom of Information, General, Governance, Investigative Reports, Jejomar C Binay, Noynoy Watch, Paper Chase, The Judiciary
TODAY we start running a series of PCIJ reports on the unyielding saga of pork and corruption, seemingly the eternal scourge of government and politics in the Philippines. On Nov.19, 2013, the Supreme Court, voting 14-0 with one abstention, declared...
August 10, 2015 · Posted in: 2016 Elections, Civil Society, Congress Watch, Disaster Aid, Environment Watch, Freedom of Information, Governance, Human Rights, Noynoy Watch, Peace and Conflict, Women
By Titon Mitra Country Director in the Philippines United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) THERE IS AN ENDURING ADAGE that "the whole is only the sum of its parts". Recent Press and commentary on the statement of Professor (Chaloka) Beyani,...
August 10, 2015 · Posted in: 2016 Elections, Congress Watch, Disaster Aid, Environment Watch, Governance, Human Rights, Local Government, Noynoy Watch, Public Health, The Economy, Women, Youth and Education
UNDERNOURISHED children, overnourished adults -- that is “the double burden of malnutrition” that afflicts the Philippines. A paradox, indeed, in a highly agricultural economy, which should be producing food in abundance. To this day, however, many...
