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Text and photos by LUIS LIWANAG NATURAL disasters and extreme weather phenomena have become so routine lately that to hear the impending landfall of another supertyphoon failed to whet my appetite for another adrenaline-charged news coverage. Spending time with family and keeping my word on commitments to friends were at the top of my list

Text and photos by LUIS LIWANAG TACLOBAN CITY—The city government of Tacloban finally buried the dead in a shallow ditch that officials said was just a temporary resting place for those who perished from the wrath of Typhoon Yolanda. Cadavers wrapped in body bags, blankets, mats and even GI sheets collected from all over the

Slideshow by MARIO IGNACIO IV The “Million People March” social media activists had been cooking up for weeks failed to produce the promised million. But no matter. The message from the almost 100,000 rallyists who descended on Rizal Park on a drizzling Monday morning was crystal clear: Enough of “pork.” From all indications, the motley throng

By JONATHAN DE SANTOS GOVERNMENT has been dragging its feet in implementing a law awarding financial compensation to victims of human rights abuses during the martial law years, despite the fact that their number is slowly dwindling. “Not a month passes without one of us dying,” Felix Dalisay, who spoke for Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban

By MARIE GAY ALESSANDRA V. ORDENES HOW much is the government really getting from mining? How about other extractive industries such as gas and oil? How much is the industry actually paying the government? And, most important, do such payments comply with laws? Filipinos should be getting the answers to these and other questions about

By MIKHA FLORES THE Supreme Court launched on Friday an electronic filing system that will digitize judicial processes in trial courts in Quezon City. Dubbed as “eCourt”, the system uses case management software that will allow judges and court personnel to organize case flows from the filing of the complaint up to its resolution and

[tabs] [tab title=”Top Spenders for TV”] [/tab] [tab title=”Top Spenders for Radio”] [/tab] [tab title=”Networks”] [/tab] [/tabs] By MIKHA FLORES JOSEPH Victor Ejercito Estrada of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) has logged the most number of television airtime while Team PNoy senatorial candidate Loren Legarda leads in radio placements for the first month of the

Text and photos by VINCENT GO THE United Nations had declared March 20, 2013 the first World Happiness Day. But for hundreds of activists in the Philippines, it was a day of protest as they held simultaneous mass actions in various parts of Metro Manila to voice their unhappiness with the performance of President Benigno Aquino’s III, now

Text, photos and video by VINCENT GO WHAT started out as a gathering of a few tattoo artists at a small garage in Malate district in Manila twelve years ago has grown to be the biggest tattoo exposition in the country.

By VINCENT GO
Activists and community leaders on Thursday demanded that the Department of Environment and Natural Resources install a pollution disclosure system that will require industrial facilities to publicly declare the chemicals they use in their products and manufacturing process, and report how these are discharged, treated or transported.

By VERA Files It’s the feast of St John the Baptist, and in his honor, Filipinos brought out their water canons, guns and hoses. In Cavite City, they called it a water festival and christened it Regada.

By VINCENT GO
Hundreds of farmers from Negros Occidental and Batangas marched to Manila to ask President Benigno Aquino III to immediately distribute land to farmer-beneficiaries before the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program ends in 2014.

Photos by MARIO IGNACIO IV
On Tuesday, May 29, 2012, the Senate either acquits or convicts Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona after an impeachment trial that stretched over nearly five months.

By XIANNE ARCANGEL
Photos by MARIO IGNACIO IV
ALDRIN Ortiz left his house in Nueva Ecija in Central Luzon as early as 3 a.m. on Labor Day, not to attend a workers’ rally but to be among the first applicants to line up at the Labor Day Jobs and Livelihood Fair at the World Trade Center (WTC) job fair in Pasay City.

Text, photos and video by VINCENT GO
GENETICALLY modified organism walked the streets of Malate yesterday to dramatize the dangers of GMOs in food and the ecology, as environmentalists asked the Supreme Court to stop field trials of genetically modified eggplant.

Text by XIANNE S. ARCANGEL, Photos by MARIO IGNACIO IV
RESTORING the Pasig River back to life might be a daunting task, but the Sagip Ilog Pilipinas Movement (SIPM) believes young and old boy scouts and fraternity members are up for the challenge.

By VINCENT GO AND REYNARD MAGTOTO
THE family of a volunteer fireman who was mistakenly shot and killed by the Makati police said his killers, and even the media, have tainted the meaning of volunteerism.

Text, photos and videos by VINCENT GO
BEING at Fred's Revolucion is like going back to a time when the cold war was raging and revolutions were the in thing. It calls to mind a scene from the 1960s movie “M.A.S.H.” whose battle-weary soldiers guzzled up after a hectic day on the war front.

Text, photos, and video by VINCENT GO
This year, five men and a woman were crucified, among them 51-year-old Sonny Bautista who has been mute since childhood. Bautista hails from Hagonoy town and has been coming to Kapitangan to be crucified for 14 years now.

Text, photos and video by VINCENT GO
The Lenten season has inspired urban poor groups to hold various protests with the theme “Kalbaryo ng Maralita (Calvary of the Poor),” as urban poor communities braced themselves for more violent demolitions after Holy Week.

Text, photos and video by VINCENT GO
VARIOUS groups from different sectors vowed to continue staging rallies in the coming weeks, following the nationwide protest they held on March 15, World Consumer's Rights Day, to demand action from government on the continuing oil price increases.

Text, photos and video by VINCENT GO
A FIRE that hit the Ever Gotesco Grand Central Mall in Caloocan City late Friday evening continued to rage as of noon Saturday as thick smoke prevented firemen from entering the mall.

Text, photos and video by VINCENT GO
THOUSANDS of Filipino women marched in the streets of Manila on International Women's Day to protest the Aquino administration's failure to address social problems besieging the country, with such issues as the increase in prices of basic commodities, labor, health and housing.

Text, photos and video by VINCENT GO
THIRTY-ONE farmers affiliated with the peasant federation Task Force Mapalad staged a lightning rally outside the gates of the Malacañang Palace complex to denounce the slow pace of implementation of agrarian reform.

Text and photos by VINCENT GO
SOME 150 farmers from Negros Island arrived at the Manila North Harbor today as part of Lakbayan, a protest march to dramatize their frustration over government's failure to speed up the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms (CARPER).

Text, photos and video by VINCENT GO
On the first day of the Year of the Water Dragon, Binondo, Manila became the scene of a huge party filled with street performers and lion dancers and dragons of all shapes, colors and sizes gyrating to the beat of drummers.

Text and photos by VINCENT GO
THE Chinese New Year is considered the most important holiday on the Chinese calendar. The first day of the Lunar New Year falls on Monday, Jan. 23, which has been declared a public holiday. This means it’s going to be a long weekend, the perfect time for ordinary citizens to get a chance to visit Manila’s Chinatown and join the celebrations.

Text, photos and video by Vincent Go.
BARELY a week after the Feast of the Black Nazarene, thousands of devotees flocked to the Sto. Niño de Tondo Parish, bearing images of the Child Jesus to have them blessed.

By PATRICK KING PASCUAL
AMID chants of Viva Pit Senyor! (or Long live the Christ child!), about a hundred thousand devotees of the Holy Child joined Saturday’s grand foot procession in Cebu City--- the eve of the Feast of the Sto. Niño.

By KARLOS MANLUPIG
PANTUKAN, Compostela Valley—A loud cracking sound followed by waves upon waves of clay, timber and rocks roused sleeping residents in a poor small-scale mining community in Sitios Diat 1 and 2 in Barangay Napnapan, Pantukan, Compostela Valley before dawn of Jan. 5. Shortly after, more than 50 houses would be buried in rubble, leaving residents who survived the nature’s onslaught in shock.