THEY CAME IN DROVES, the young and the old, the healthy and the infirm, some with babies in tow, others heavy with child. We may not always like how they vote, we may agree or disagree with their choices in politics, yet theirs is a right to be heard, and...

NIIGATA – Japan’s inventiveness and creativity is not only limited to technology, transport, and story-telling. Even when the subject is frightening and complicated, the Japanese have found ways to make it understandable to children. For instance,...

KOBE -- When the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck on Jan. 17, 1995, this port city in western Japan was devastated in an instant, leaving 6,437 either dead or missing and about $100 billion worth of infrastructures damaged. Today there is not...

LAST Tuesday, March 24, marked the 13th anniversary of the Marcopper mining disaster that choked the Boac River with tons of toxic mine tailings, instantly sapping life out of one of Marinduque's major waterways. Thirteen years later, the toxic legacy of...

DEEMED as an act to correct a "historic wrong," the $787-billion economic stimulus package recently approved by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by U.S. President Barack Obama comes with $198 million in lump-sum benefits to surviving Filipino...

OVER a million Americans witnessed the historic January 20 inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama as the 44th and first African-American president of the United States. Filipino social documentary photographer Rick Rocamora, a regular PCIJ contributor,...

BELOW is a photo contribution of U.S.-based Filipino social documentary photographer Rick Rocamora, as well as his personal reflections on the much anticipated inaugural ceremony of Barack Hussein Obama on January 20 as the first African-American...