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People Power for long term change
By Melinda Quintos de Jesus THE PUBLIC outrage over the reported abuse of pork barrel allocations recalls other passages in recent Philippine history when abuse of power in government provoked... Read more
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Beyond Janet Napoles
By Vergel O. Santos WITH AROUND 400,000 protesters descending on the Luneta – not to mention others turning out in fair numbers elsewhere around the country and some parts abroad... Read more
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Fugitive demands 40 million pesos in damages from reporters
CMFR/Philippines – A businesswoman turned fugitive for her alleged involvement in a multi-billion peso corruption scandal filed four separate libel complaints against a blogger, two reporters, two editors and... Read more
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R2KRN: FOI advocates joining Luneta indignation on budget scam
CMFR is a member of the Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition (R2KRN)—a network of about 160 organizations and individuals from various social sectors and civil society groups, which... Read more
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Online fury fuels movement in the making
Media reports based on the National Bureau of Investigation’s probe of an alleged P10-billion scam involving the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or pork barrel has revived public interest... Read more
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Two wanted for murder of columnists
CMFR/Philippines – The police have formally charged two suspects for the 30 July 2013 murder of two tabloid columnists in Quezon City, Manila. The suspects have yet to be... Read more
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CSR and the media
By Luis V. Teodoro Although the Philippines is a particularly disaster-prone country year ’round, both because of its geographical location (it sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire” and is... Read more
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An exercise in incoherence
By Melinda Quintos de Jesus I CAN only guess at the objective of the Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI) “roundtable” with Janet Lim Napoles, the primary object of a five month... Read more