Our latest report follows up on the deepening secrecy that shrouds the P52-billion Laiban Dam project of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) in Tanay, Rizal. This story written by PCIJ Fellow Roel Landingin reveals that not only the...

The following is a statement of Rep. Teodoro L. Locsin (Makati) on House Resolution No. 1109 to convene the House of Representatives into a constituent assembly (Con-Ass). House Resolution convening itself as a constituent assembly THROWING A PARTY FOR...

OUR latest report looks at what should be a positive impact of infrastructure projects on poverty alleviation initiatives of the government. Sadly, this report authored by Karol Ilagan, PCIJ writer-researcher, reveals that in five of the 10 provinces...

The second part of the PCIJ's latest report shows how four congressmen and a governor have direct personal and family interests in business entities that had been awarded multi-million-peso contracts by the DPWH. In reply to PCIJ queries, the five have...

Our latest offering is a two-part report on how politics drive the award of public-works contracts. The first part written by senior journalist Tita C. Valderama, PCIJ training director, reveals how two sons in Congress of President Gloria Macapagal...

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...

SUMMER is upon us, and in a fortnight, it will be Lent. Very soon, hordes of Filipinos, mountaineers, nature-lovers, and entire families will take the traditional trek to Northern Luzon for cooler weather and better scenery. There they will marvel once...