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Radio blocktimer found dead

CMFR/ Philippines – A radio blocktimer was found dead in the province of Maguindanao last 1 September 2012, three days after he was reported missing by his family. Maguindanao... Read more

Journalist threatened

CMFR/ Philippines - A journalist reported seeing suspicious men around his house in Mabalacat City, Pampanga at least three times after he received a death threat last 24 August... Read more

Plagiarism in high places

THE PRACTICE of plagiarism among public officials is evidence of among others, the terrible state of government, especially of lawmaking or what passes for it in this country. Sen.... Read more

April is the cruelest month. —TS Eliot SEPTEMBER’S THE first of those months of the year that end in "ber" (September, October, November, December)—its onset signaling, so local wags say,... Read more

A plague of plagiarism

LAYING ITSELF open to thievery being so temptingly and readily accessible, the Internet must have by now fostered a plague of plagiarism. If not enough cases have come to... Read more

The Ampatuan Massacre: A thousand days after

By the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists With 32 journalists and media workers for victims, the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan (Maguindanao) Massacre catapulted the Philippines to the top of... Read more

Preparing viewers

CHEERS TO Road to 2013 for being a regular forum for discussion of issues related to the 2013 elections. Road to 2013 is among the first television specials already... Read more

Time enough

THE PHILIPPINES now has its first woman Chief Justice in the person of Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. It’s a precedent- setting appointment, but wasn’t really all that surprising in... Read more

Elections then

CHEERS TO Solar Network News for a July 31 special report on the Philippine experience in manual elections as the debate on the next automated elections in May 2013... Read more

‘Everything is eventual’

I NEVER met Jesse Robredo. But from what I’ve known about him—from his pronouncements, from the news, and now from the testimonials given upon his death—I feel I’ve known... Read more

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