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International Crisis

A Thailand criminal court on May 30 found an online editor guilty of violating the Computer Crimes Act (CCA) of 2007 for not deleting quickly enough from her website... Read more

What pledge?

CHEERS TO the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) for reminding its readers that President Benigno S. Aquino III pledged to waive his rights to bank secrecy during the... Read more

Tackling judicial appointments

CHEERS TO VERA Files for its three-part special on judicial appointments. “The Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) is now the focus of national attention as it begins the process of... Read more

Gunman in slay attempt against broadcaster found guilty

A Makati City court has convicted the gunman in the attempt on the life of a Cagayan de Oro City-based radio broadcaster of frustrated murder last June 2012. The... Read more

Comprehensive report

CHEERS TO Aksyon for a comprehensive report on an allegedly hazardous road construction project that will connect Oriental and Occidental Mindoro. Read more

Afable, 95

FILIPINO JOURNALIST and social advocate Cecilia Elena Cariño Afable died of pulmonary sepsis last June 12. She was 95. She was of Ibaloi descent, her mother’s father being a... Read more

Reporting the Scarborough disputeContext, context, context

ON THE news front burner since April, the Panatag Shoal territorial dispute between the Philippines and China escalated on April 10 in a tense naval confrontation between the two... Read more

Broadcaster threatened

A broadcaster from Bukidnon has been receiving threatening text messages after discussing allegedly illegal activities at the local land transportation office (LTO) in May 2012. Read more

Because of poverty

CHEERS TO VERA Files for their story “akyat barko girls (ship climbing girls)”, prostitutes who climb docked ships to offer sex to foreign ship crews. Read more

In-depth reporting

CHEERS TO Investigative Documentaries for its April 26 in-depth report about security guards. In a country of limited jobs, more than 700,000 Filipinos work as security guards. This... Read more