Bicol, home to the majestic Mount Mayon, is among the country’s most disaster-prone regions. It is regularly battered by storms and other calamities that test the resilience of its people year after ...

In the Philippines, the powerful are rarely held to account. Rodrigo Duterte, now in the custody of the International Criminal Court (ICC), is one of few exceptions. The arrest represents a deeply ...

Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X The term “unprogrammed ...

THE POOR abound in this country — Filipinos who cannot earn or raise the minimum income to meet the basic food and non-food requirements. The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) clusters them among ...

Transportation giant Grab offers a convenient alternative to navigating the country’s busy cities – but at a premium. Data collected by PCIJ showed that rides of the GrabCar service always included ...

One year after President Marcos shamed officials and contractors whom he said stole from government-funded flood-control projects, the country has yet to come to grips with the scale of the thievery ...

Just five months ago, thousands of Duterte supporters were trashing the Supreme Court on Facebook, calling it “useless” and demanding it act against the former president’s arrest. Now these same ...

Rain showers greeted Renato Ibañez and other Indigenous leaders when they gathered in Manila in mid-September to halt the controversial Kaliwa Dam in dense forests east of Manila. Ibañez lives in ...

At least 70 of 177 party-list groups accredited by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for the May 2022 elections have nominees who are connected to political clans or incumbent local or national ...

The PCIJ redacted the personal information and signatures of individuals mentioned in these files. Some documents are not readily available on the Securities and Exchange Commission website, which is ...

THIS ANNUAL exercise is rooted in the context of human rights as a manifestation as well as mechanism of democracy. CMFR has always understood the protection of press freedom as a right not only of ...

Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X In a low-income community in the ...