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  • Examining the Mamasapano Impact on Peace

    CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for running a two-part series examining the impact of the Mamasapano incident on peace negotiations between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic... Read more

  • Liberating Badjao Women After War

    “Liberating Badjao women after war,” was first published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on Jan. 10, 2016. By Julie S. Alipala/ Inquirer Mindanao THE MOST visible effect of the war between government... Read more

  • DNA Test: A Hoax, a Non-Story

      JEERS TO the Manila Bulletin for a headline that misled the reader into thinking that the article was about an authentic document but, as the report itself said,... Read more

  • Obit

    Dave Culbert, 63 BRITISH JOURNALIST Dave Culbert died Monday, January 18. He was 63. Culbert was the former deputy editor of Sunday Life. He joined the paper in the... Read more

  • Chronicle

    PNoy approves privatization of IBC-13 PRESIDENT BENIGNO AQUINO III has given the go signal for the privatization of government-sequestered Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation (IBC-13), on the recommendation of the Governance... Read more

  • SSS: Failure of Public Policy Reporting

    CRITICISM RAINED on President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III for his veto of House Bill 5842 that sought to increase by PHP 2,000 the monthly Social Security System (SSS)... Read more

  • Mamasapano, a Year Later

    CHEERS TO ABS-CBN 2’s TV Patrol and CNN Philippines’ Network News for exploring developments and other issues in Mamasapano, Maguindanao, a year after the clash between the Philippine National... Read more

  • Revisiting Arroyo’s Plunder Case

    CHEERS TO Rappler.com for its efforts to revisit former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s plunder case, coinciding with the fifteenth anniversary of the protest action known as “EDSA Dos” or People... Read more

  • RH Law Budget Cut: Ambushed and Out of the Loop

      THE SLASHING last December of the Department of Health’s billion-peso budget for family planning commodities caught reproductive health advocates off-guard. DOH Secretary Janette Garin said she herself was... Read more

  • Traffic Congestion in Roads other than EDSA

    CHEERS TO CNN Philippines’ Network News for moving traffic reporting from EDSA to other roads in the capital. While EDSA serves as the most extensive artery connecting five cities... Read more