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...

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...

WE feature on the blog this latest paper written by Dr. Joel Rocamora, chairperson of the Akbayan party-list group and former executive director of the Institute for Popular Democracy. In his paper, Rocamora presents his reading of the current situation...

IT is not likely that Jocelyn 'Joc-Joc' Bolante will be arrested by government agents when he finally arrives in the country anytime this week after being deported from the U.S. (Some reports expect his arrival tomorrow at around 11 p.m. aboard a...

FIRST, it was bandied about to be a "cash advance" to serve as contingency fund for the trip of recently retired police comptroller Eliseo dela Paz and seven other senior Philippine National Police (PNP) officials to St. Petersburg, Russia to attend the...

FINALLY, murder charges have been filed against the alleged masterminds in the 2005 killing of whistleblower-turned-journalist Marlene Esperat. Charged before the Tacurong City Regional Trial Court in Sultan Kudarat close to noon today were Department...