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DOJ indicts Maria Ressa, Rappler Holdings Co. for tax evasion

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — The Department of Justice (DOJ) has found probable cause to charge Rappler Holdings Corporation (RHC) with tax evasion over the sale of its Philippine Depositary Receipts... Read more

A View to a Kill: Investigative Report Finds Police-Vigilante Link

Screen shot from Rappler.com CHEERS TO Rappler for “Murder in Manila,” a seven-part series on the Philippine National Police’s (PNP) involvement in some cases of extra-judicial killings (EJKs).... Read more

Media’s disinterest in the issues of delayed rehabilitation of Marawi

Photo from the Task Force Bangon Marawi official website. AFTER SEVERAL postponements, the ceremony to kickstart Marawi City’s rehabilitation finally pushed through on October 30 – without President Rodrigo Duterte... Read more

Sidebar | The Magnetic Lifters: Recalling Critical Details

Read article: The Drugs That Got Away: Questions Linger on Multibillion-Peso Drug Shipment Photo from the PDEA Top Stories Facebook page. THE USE of magnetic lifters to smuggle narcotics... Read more

Villar Company Franchise Grant: Media Note Possible Conflict of Interest

CHEERS TO Rappler for pointing out a possible case of conflict of interest in the granting of a 25-year franchise to Streamtech Systems Technologies (SST), a venture of... Read more

Who is Michael Yang? Online Media Flag Duterte’s Chinese ‘Economic Adviser’

ON SEPTEMBER 4, President Rodrigo Duterte put a Chinese businessman named Michael Yang on the media radar when he mentioned the latter in a speech before the Philippine... Read more

Arroyo Draft Charter: Removal of VP from Succession Escapes Media Attention

ONLY A month after she told the media that the House of Representatives doesn’t have enough time to discuss charter change, Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and 21 lawmakers... Read more

Much Ado About Uson

BLOGGER “MOCHA” Uson announced her resignation as assistant secretary of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) on October 3 during the deliberations of the Senate finance subcommittee... Read more

Still on Trillanes Amnesty: Few Reports Questioned Court Ruling

MAKATI REGIONAL Trial Court (RTC) Branch 150 Judge Elmo Alameda on September 25 reopened the rebellion case against then Navy officer Antonio Trillanes IV that he had dismissed... Read more

Duterte’s EJK ‘Admission’: Media Yield to Palace Spin

PRESIDENT RODRIGO Duterte’s blasphemous, sexist, anti-poor tirades, including hate speech, have made enough headlines in the past to make such offensive outbursts almost a cliché. During the oath-taking... Read more