Corruption is fueling one of the region’s most urgent human rights crises: trafficking in persons for forced criminality. If you’re a journalist ready to expose the networks behind this exploitation, ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The next round of the Marcos-Duterte family feud was expected to play out in Congress. But the ...

Heavy reliance on imported fuel In the Philippines, generation charges account for around 55% of Filipinos’ electricity bills, according to Jephraim Manansala, chief data scientist of the Institute ...

Transportation giant Grab offers a convenient alternative to navigating the country’s busy cities – but at a premium. Data collected by PCIJ showed that rides of the GrabCar service always included ...

These disinformation narratives pushed by supporters of Marcos have shaped the 2022 elections, according to Jonathan Ong, Harvard Kennedy School research fellow, who has published several studies on ...

At the core of the resistance on the island are at least three indigenous families who have lived on Mariahangin for generations, primarily relying on fishing and agar-agar (seaweed) farming for their ...

The Cordillera region remains largely rooted in its communal and participatory indigenous forms of governance. Where political dynasties exist, they are generally ‘thin’—except in two provinces where ...

THE POOR abound in this country — Filipinos who cannot earn or raise the minimum income to meet the basic food and non-food requirements. The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) clusters them among ...

How did Vico Sotto end the Eusebios’ rule in Pasig City? Can it be done elsewhere? He bears a popular surname and he’s connected to an existing dynasty in Quezon City. But we should not forget that he ...

THERE IS another version of the EDSA People Power story, but it is one that EDSA veterans aren’t liking. In this new version, former President Ferdinand Marcos is portrayed as the real hero of EDSA ...

The late DENR Secretary Gina Lopez's closure and suspension orders against 28 mines in 2017 were not implemented following a review ordered by Malacañang. A culture of non-implementation of ...

Political dynasties continue to hold a tight grip on provinces in the Philippines. By the count of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), at least 71 of the country’s 82 provincial ...