Rechiel Antones, 36, manages a printing shop in Southville 6 in Calamba City, Laguna, southeast of Metro Manila. It’s also near a massive landfill that seemed no number of sanitation citations could ...

Research by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) shows that 36 out of 54 party-list groups in the current 19th Congress have at least one nominee belonging to a political family.

Rain showers greeted Renato Ibañez and other Indigenous leaders when they gathered in Manila in mid-September to halt the controversial Kaliwa Dam in dense forests east of Manila. Ibañez lives in ...

Filipinos could only vote in 1907, and only men were allowed to do so. Filipinos in the US were permitted suffrage after World War II in 1946. But the Cordillerans who joined the St. Louis Fair in ...

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 ...

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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 ...

In late December 2020, an Iloilo fisherman gained online fame when a photo of him catching a humongous 20-kilogram (kg.) longfin trevally, locally known as lison, from the Iloilo River near the ...

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 ...

Bicol, home to the majestic Mount Mayon, is among the country’s most disaster-prone regions. It is regularly battered by storms and other calamities that test the resilience of its people year after ...

Like many readers, I was deeply touched by Columbia University investigative journalism professor Sheila Coronel’s story “The Making of Edgar Matobato.” Published as a longform piece by the Philippine ...

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