Firms of Bong Go kin, top contractors: Many JVs, delayed projects in Davao
Click to watch video: Projects_PCIJDAVAO CITY – For his home region and bailiwick of Davao Region, President Rodrigo R. Duterte gave the largest share of public works funds in the 2017 national...
View ArticleAbout Bong Go’s statement
WE STAND by our story and take exception to the statement of Special Assistant to the President Christopher Lawrence “Bong” T. Go that our report on the multibillion-peso civil works contracts that the...
View ArticleThe rights of our children
ALL CITIZENS, but most especially our children, are vested with inalienable rights under the Constitution and the laws of the land.The nation marks this week the 46th anniversary of the declaration of...
View ArticleIn pictures: Anyare, Marawi?
This was the spot where people loved to pose when in Marawi. It is now peppered with bullet holes. This “I Love Marawi” site is located beside Lake Lanao. Photo by BOBBY TIMONERA EXACTLY A YEAR AGO...
View ArticleA year after ‘liberation’, Meranaws await rehabilitation
Click to view: MarawiLiberated, 17oct18MARAWI CITY – The groundbreaking for the government’s ambitious rehabilitation of this city was supposed to take place today, the first anniversary of Marawi’s...
View ArticleExceedingly slow rehab work leaves Meranaws restless ‘people of the tents’
Displaced residents of Marawi at the Balo-i Gymnasium 9, Philippine Information Agency photo published June 2, 2017, http://pia.gov.ph/photogallery/photos/101 MARAWI CITY — As early as September last...
View ArticleBantay Kita FOI Practice Report: MOAs between IPs and mining firms
Requests for Memorandum of Agreement (MOAs) between IP Organizations and the 13 large-scale metallic mines that participated in the Fourth PH EITI Report for 2016 I. Organizational ProfileBantay Kita...
View ArticleFOI Practice Report of Action forEconomic Reforms: Is TRAIN on Track?
FOI Practice of the Action for Economic Reforms on the Implementation of the TRAIN Law’s Social Mitigating Measures I. Organizational ProfileAction for Economic Reforms (AER) is a public-interest...
View ArticleUsapang Bigas: FOI Practice on Availability, Price Stability, and Importation...
I. Organizational ProfileThe Right to Know, Right Now! (R2KRN) Coalition has been a staunch advocate for the passage of the FOI Law since it was convened in 2002, initially as the Access to...
View ArticleFOI Practice Report of Ateneo Policy Center: A Transparent Age of...
FOI Practice Report from the Ateneo Policy Center (APC) I. Organizational Profile Established in 1996, the Ateneo School of Government boasts 20 years of experience in delivering leading-edge policy...
View ArticleANSA-EAP FOI Practice Report: What’s wrong with ‘Build, Build, Build’?
FOI Practice Report of the Affiliated Network for Social Accountability (ANSA) in East Asia & Pacific I. Organizational ProfileThe Affiliated Network for Social Accountability in East Asia &...
View ArticleFOI, Kaya pa? Is there a future for FOI under DU30 administration?
FOI advocates march to Malacanang, November 2012. Should it happen again? File photo WE LOOK BACK to two years ago when hopes were high –- for order, for rule of law, for discipline, for transparency,...
View ArticleP2.4-B pre-campaign ads: Bong Go, Marcos, Roxas, Roque top spenders
TO THE last, they have pledged to fight poverty and corruption, promote health and education, protect the environment, and serve the poor who make up a majority of over 60 million registered...
View ArticlePCIJ Audit: Candidates on Social Media
A “PROMOTIONAL TOUCHPOINT.” That, in advertising and PR parlance, is what social media apparently looks like to candidates for senator in the May 2019 elections, and they have been using it as such...
View ArticleVoters, winners, regions, towns, cities: Data, stats on PH elections since 2004
WHO have run for senator and won in the last five elections since 2004?As of the May 2016 elections, how many of the registered voters actually voted, and in which provinces, towns, and cities of the...
View ArticleGov’t, media can’t play fast, loose with due process and rule of law
Statement of Journalists and Media Organizations on the Duterte Administration’s List of Alleged “Narco Politicians” WE, JOURNALISTS AND MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS, express grave concern about the likely...
View ArticleLaw firm not registered, some biz interests not disclosed, lender gets deal...
By Malou Mangahas and Floreen Simon RICH MAN, poor man, Mayor, President. Back in 15thcentury England, this was how a traditional nursery rhyme and fortune-telling game ran. Later in the United...
View ArticleDuterte, Sara, Paolo mark big spikesin wealth, cash, while in public office
By Floreen Simon and Malou Mangahas IN THE May 2019 elections, not just two but all three children of President Rodrigo R. Duterte by estranged spouse Elizabeth A. Zimmerman are running. But unlike...
View ArticleDutertes mix up data on 23 business interests, posts of 16 relatives in gov’t
By Floreen Simon and Malou Mangahas Return to the full network Information Pane Connections: BY THE DISCLOSURES in their asset records, President Rodrigo Duterte, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte,...
View ArticlePCIJ on ‘Oust-Duterte plot’: Wrong report, on many counts
PCIJ Statement on The Manila Times‘s report on “Oust-Duterte plot”, 22 April 2019 The Manila Times’s “association matrix” and story about a supposed “oust-Duterte plot” that include journalists with...
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