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BAM goes the Freedom of Information bill!

BATTERY, ASSAULT, and MURDER – this was what happened to the FOI bill today (Nov. 13) at the hearing of the Committee on Public Information of the House of... Read more

Non-Passage of the FOI Bill in the 15th Congress is Not Acceptable

A little over three months ago, House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. uttered these words to summon his colleagues in the House of Representatives to work harder and faster on... Read more

Unworthy

NOT FOR his distinguished legislative record—he practically had none—was Benigno S. Aquino III elected to the Philippine Presidency in 2010, but for his presumed libertarian and human rights heritage. Benigno... Read more

Power vs freedom

FREEDOM OF information, an issue that constitutes a critical test for any nation with any pretension to democracy, has hung unresolved hereabouts all these years. I’m not surprised really,... Read more

Push, Pass the FOI Act Now!

The media and other groups in the Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition that has been campaigning for a Freedom of Information Act have declared Aug. 15 as ... Read more

Coalition Welcomes People’s Gains in FOI

The Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition welcomes the recent public endorsement by President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III of the passage of the Freedom of Information (FOI) law... Read more

Asian Media Barometer: The Philippines 2011Excess of freedom, impunity; Deficit of ethics, self-criticism

The Philippine media community, one of the freest and most rambunctious in all of Asia, is an incredible, hopefully not incorrigible, story of dissonant currents and practices. Read more

Aquino “double talk” on FOI

By Fernando R. Cabigao Jr. President Benigno S. Aquino III lacks the political will to pass the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill, the coalition of freedom of information advocates... Read more

Reporting year one of the Aquino administration

SWEPT TO power in 2010 by a majority unprecedented in the country’s history, President Benigno Aquino III started his inaugural speech with the statement to the people that “Kayo... Read more

Press freedom in Aquino’s first year: Unfulfilled promises and fading hopes

HIS SUPPOSED commitment to free expression and a free press was part of then Sen. Benigno Aquino III’s announced platform during his campaign for the Philippine presidency. Aquino promised... Read more