THE WORD "memory" traces its roots to the Latin word "memoria" and "memor," meaning "mindful" or "remembering." It is defined as the human brain's ability to "encode, sort, retain, and subsequently recall information and past experiences." The website...

Cong B. Corrales THE ARREST of former major general Jovito Palparan will bolster the cases filed against the ex-military official accused of a string of alleged human rights violations. The arrest came three years after Judge Teodora Gonzales of the...

By Ed Lingao THE MAN WHO, by his own account, was once considered "a weakling" who would not survive in the real world, had thought of himself as the necessary iron fist that would clear the country, not just of the communist New People's Army, but of...

INVESTIGATIVE reports on governance and corruption won major prizes in the 20th Jaime V. Ongpin Awards for Excellence in Journalism (JVOAEJ) held today at the Asian Institute of Management in Makati. PCIJ fellow Roel Landingin's three-part series on...

THE PCIJ again emerged victorious at the 2008 Developing Asia Journalism Awards (DAJA) held recently in Tokyo, Japan, garnering the top prize in one of four categories and clinching runner-up honors in another. Alecks P. Pabico, the Center's multimedia...

TOKYO -- The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) is again vying for honors for excellence in journalistic reporting that cover development trends and issues in Asia at the 2008 Developing Asia Journalism Awards (DAJA) organized and...

THE PCIJ blog was declared the best in the Podcast category at the 2008 Digital Filipino Web Awards held last November 5 at the Mall of Asia. The PCIJ's three-year-old blog received the recognition from DigitalFilipino.com, a community of electronic...