NEARLY A year would seem plenty time for senatorial candidates and their political parties to study the campaign-finance rules and regulations for the May 2013 elections so that they could comply correctly. After all, the Commission on Elections (Comelec)...

TODAY, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) lifts the veil of secrecy on offshore accounts with its public launch of an interactive database of 2.5 million leaked files covering the secret trust accounts and companies of...

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...

ELECTIONS in the Philippines, especially for candidates to national office, are considered to be primarily "air war" affairs. This was, in fact, what happened again in the May 2013 elections, which saw most of the moneyed candidates for senator, and ...

  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...

IN WHAT MANY are hoping could be the end of a two-decade drought of information in the judiciary, the Supreme Court en banc approved an August 2012 request by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) for the release of the statements...

AMONG ITS MANY EXCUSES for being, the government is supposed to combat crime and corruption. Those elected to office thus take a solemn oath before God, Country, and Constitution to uphold, defend, and rule by the laws of the land. Our latest two-part...