By Dinna Louise C. Dayao, with additional reporting from Kenneth Roland A. Guda Are the people who ride light electric vehicles (LEVs) pasaway and takaw disgrasya? Not Corinna Pettyjohn and many like her who choose these cost- and energy-efficient, practical vehicles as their main mode of...
The Philippine National Police on Jan. 23 dismantled an anti-mining barricade in Dupax del Norte, Nueva Vizcaya, arresting seven residents and clearing the way for mining exploration. The move prompted condemnation and calls for accountability from church leaders,...
Advocates warn that Frenchie Mae Cumpio’s prolonged detention signals shrinking civic space, rising risks for Filipino community journalists
A newly-formed alliance of film industry workers added to calls in holding corrupt officials accountable. The Film Workers Against Corruption (FWAC) in a press conference at the UPFI Film Center in UP Diliman, Quezon City today, November 22, 2025, asserted calls...
It was one of those rare moments of clarity, or one when one's view of the world suddenly comes into complete focus. In my mind, I, of course, knew that this happens all the time, in one shape or another, in places both seen and unseen. I only even saw the...
By Salome Lapiten The land knows no master. Yet it recognizes a farmer’s calloused hands, worn with the same cracks that run through the barren land. It knows their blood that seeps through those fissures and breathes the same rugged breath as the farmers, enduring so...
Ni Renalyn Ramirez Pinosasan at nilagyan ng kadena sa bewang ang tripulanteng si Gina Yatar, 43, ng mga tauhan ng United States Customs and Border Patrol (USCBP) dahil sa paratang na kabilang siya sa isang teroristang grupo. Pinilit din umano siyang pumirma sa...
On September 21, the anniversary of Martial Law, a brief program at Mendiola was supposed to end quietly. Instead, it unraveled into hours of violent expression of anger and frustration of hundreds of unorganized but politicized youths demanding an end to government...
Kenneth Roland Guda & Avon Ang Bryan*, a resident of the University Belt, recounted how he witnessed the shooting of Eric Saber, 35, during the chaos in Recto Avenue, near Mendiola, on September 21, 2025. Eric, he said, was a bystander who took no part in the...
Journalists from 35 countries issued a demand to President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. for the immediate release of Frenchie Mae Cumpio, a 26-year-old community journalist who has been in jail for more than five years on what colleagues and rights defenders call...
(CONTENT WARNING: This report contains images and footage of violence, police brutality, and blood) In many ways, the day began in historic fashion. In Luneta, by 10 in the morning, emcees announced that the crowd was approaching 80,000, gathered mostly along...
The scandal over anomalous flood control projects has reached the University of the Philippines Diliman. Across the campus, buildings long promised to students, faculty, and staff have inched upward only to stall, some left crumbling midway. Some of those declared...
Sa buong Asya, ang Pilipinas ang may pinakamalaking bilang ng pinapatay na tanggol-kalikasan kada taon simula noong 2012, ayon sa tala ng international organization na Global Witness. Noong 2024, nakapagtala ang grupo ng hindi bababa sa 8 kaso ng pagpatay at...