Senator Sotto hits back at bloggers while he delivered his speech this Tuesday afternoon. Mula sa blogs, Facebook, at Twitter, ginawa akong sentro ng mga mapanira at malisyosong atake ng iba’t ibang tao, lalo pa ng mga sumusuporta sa RH Bill” Senate President then “pointed out that there is a need to succinctly define the [...]
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United Nations announces worldwide poster design contest for children and young people
The United Nations is promoting cooperatives in a big way this year, and even children are getting into the action – with a worldwide poster contest on the topic. Agricultural cooperatives are the focus of World Food Day (16 October) this year, and cooperatives more generally are being highlighted with the UN’s International Year of [...]
A story of indie solar technology innovation in the Philippines
The next Philippine revolution will be powered by sunshine: A story of indie solar technology innovation in the Philippines Everything to do with life on earth has to begin with the sun. Sunshine is what powers microscopic sugar factories inside plant cells, giving rise to a green biomass that feeds the rest of the food [...]
HOR has yet to let the public fully access the SALNs of all its members.
Still a House of secrets By Karol Anne M. Ilagan Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism IT impeached and prosecuted then Chief Justice Renato C. Corona for his failure to declare full and truthful details of his wealth in his Statement of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth (SALN). Yet, three months after Corona was convicted, the [...]
Transparency, asset records, and the new CJ : SC discloses zero SALNs, 3 months after Corona trial
By Malou Mangahas Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism Last of Two Parts THREE MONTHS after Renato C. Corona was impeached as chief justice for his failure to declare and disclose the full and true details of his wealth, the justices of the Supreme Court remain unrepentant over their opaque ways of old. Indeed, they have [...]
Short-listed assets: JBC selection process can apparently stand vast improvement
By Malou Mangahas and Karol Anne Ilagan Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism PRESIDENT Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III said it best when he declared dissatisfaction over the short list of chief justice candidates that was handed to him by the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) over a fortnight ago. Indeed, despite the big hoopla about [...]
Transparency & the new CJ : Will ‘Gods of Padre Faura’ bare SALNs at last?
By Malou Mangahas Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism First of Two Parts THE FIRST WOMAN chief justice of the Supreme Court, Maria Lourdes P.A. Sereno, will have 18 years to roll our reforms in the judiciary, or nearly as long as the regime in power of strongman Ferdinand E. Marcos, who ruled without transparency [...]
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Who’s NOT Laughing at Senator Tito Sotto’s Comedy of Errors?
by Dine Racoma (originally posted at the Philippine Online Chronicles/Blog Watch A “Victim” of Cyberbullying The Senator has cried FOUL! and called himself a victim of cyber bullying. This video courtesy of rappler.com shows Sotto saying, “Ako na po yata ang kauna-unahang opisyal na naging biktima ng cyberbullying (I think I’m the first public official [...]