June 14, 2013 | In: Access to Information, Civil Society, Congress Watch, Culture, Environment Watch, General, Governance, Human Rights, Local Government, Media
SUNSTAR CEBU and the Baguio Midland Courier bagged many of the awards in the seven categories of the Philippine Press Institute's 2012 Civic Journalism Community Press Awards.
Sunstar Cebu walked away with four of the seven awards in the...
June 14, 2013 | In: 2013 Elections, Access to Information, Freedom of Information, General, Governance, Journalist Killings, Media, Money Politics, Noynoy Watch, The Internet, Videocasts
The following is a live blog of the 17th National Press Forum of the Philippine Press Forum at the New World Hotel entitled Watching the Watchdog: Re-examining Ourselves.
DAY 2
June 14, 20013
The second day of the annual PPI conference begins...
AT ITS 17TH National Conference that opens today at the New World Hotel in Makati City, the Philippine Press Institute (PPI), the national association of newspapers of the Philippines, tackles a delicate yet necessary theme: a self...
June 12, 2013 | In: Access to Information, Civil Society, Freedom of Information, General, Governance, Human Rights, Migrant Workers Issues, Money Politics, Online Research, Paper Chase, The Economy
LOGIC WOULD TELL US that those with a college diploma should have the least problems landing a job.
Guess again.
In today's Data a Day, we take a peek at data released by the National Statistics Office through its latest Labor Force Survey.
There...
YOU CAN BARELY GET a decent job if you have a pending criminal case, in this age when just about every employer requires police and NBI clearances.
But that doesn't seem to be the case when your employer is the Filipino taxpayer.
In its latest...
THE COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS reminded winners in the 2013 midterm elections to file their statements of election contributions and expenditures (SECEs) before 5 p.m. of June 13.
Otherwise, said campaign finance unit head Commissioner Christian...
IT'S JUNE, that unholy month when traffic grinds to a standstill near Manila's universities, and when your eldest voting-age kid resumes asking for baon (allowance). In other words, it's back to school for many Filipinos.
In keeping with this month's...
