A PHILIPPINE anti-graft court has recently dismissed for lack of merit a petition by Sen. Jinggoy Estrada to prevent the garnishment of his properties in relation to a P184-million plunder charge filed against him by the Ombudsman, the Philippine Daily...

But register highest in Mindanao THE RATINGS of exiting Philippine President Benigno Simeon Aquino III plunged to historic lows since he assumed the presidency in 2010 amid the controversies surrounding the January 25 Mamasapano tragedy, the 2015 Ulat...

By Rowena F. Caronan and Malou Mangahas Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism FILIPINOS CHOOSE the people who will run their government through elections. Yet they do not hold the power to choose who will run the elections. That authority...

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,...

Trick or treat? Army officials treated by CA as Halloween nears By Julius D. Mariveles and Cong B. Corrales “SCARY." "Dismaying.” “Disappointing.” “A threat to our freedoms.” Reactions flew hard and fast yesterday after the Commission...

IT WAS a gathering repeated over and over again for the past 57 months. This time, on the grounds of the National Council of Churches of the Philippines office in Quezon City, Philippines, journalists, families and friends of the victims of the Ampatuan...

ASTROTURFING? TWITTER BOOSTS? The terms may be facile to crack for those who labor and learn from the online world, and are at any hour of day or night engaged in social media networks. Yet even as the Commission on Elections started to strictly...