THERE is no better time to celebrate family gatherings than during the holidays. In the Philippines, it is the most opportune occasion for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to come home and reunite with loved ones. A family with one or even two members...

OUR latest story by PCIJ Fellows Isa Lorenzo (from the Philippines) and Philip Ney (from Canada) looks at the mixed record of good and bad business practices by mining firms from Canada, the world’s largest exporter of metals and minerals. In 2004...

WHENEVER it is confronted with the latest survey findings about the worsening levels of corruption in the country, the Arroyo government would typically dismiss the results as based on "mere perception." Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her retinue of...

TWELVE years after a major mining catastrophe there, toxic mine wastes still choke key waterways in Marinduque. The threat of more mine tailings pouring into Boac and Mogpog rivers and Calancan Bay also remains, as abandoned mine structures are in need of...

THE annual revenues it promises to corporations easily come to millions of dollars each. For governments, the figures can reach billions. The materials it extracts also end up in a wide range of products for all sorts of uses -- from fuel to...

THE Supreme Court voted 8-7 today to declare as unconstitutional the scuttled memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain (MOA-AD) between the Arroyo government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). The MOA-AD, the third agreement to have come...

A FIXATION on single-issue analysis contributed to the current state of "unpeace" that now prevails in several parts of Mindanao in the wake of the bungled signing of the memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain (MOA-AD) between the Arroyo government...