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The party-list lawmaker spent P2.5 million to boost posts on Facebok from April 20 to July 18, the latest available data on the platform as of July 21. He is just one of the party-list representatives ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Palawan Quicksilver Mines ceased mercury mining operations in 1976 and a community settled in the abandoned mining site. Four decades later, in 2017, the residents were found to have long been ...
Mindoro is the seventh largest island of the Philippines. It sits at the bottom of Luzon, where the country’s capital is located, and stretches toward the northern tip of Sulu Sea. Large ships pass ...
Documents show that companies owned and managed by the Villar family owe Las Piñas more than P200 million in accumulated taxes and penalties. These companies are now asking for tax amnesties amounting ...
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 ...
Government agencies took years before paying heed to community pleas. Residents believe the action taken might have been too late. The story of sand mining in Ilocos Sur serves some hard lessons for ...
Candidates’ ads on Facebook have so far remained small relative to their total ad spending. The popular social media platform’s ad monitoring tool does not include payments to influencers tapped to ...
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