By Ed Lingao / PCIJ on February 21 2013 1:11 pm
FOR SEVERAL DAYS NOW, Manila’s broadsheets have been bannering the confrontation between followers of Sultan Jamalul Kiram III and Malaysian authorities in a small town in Sabah. Reports have it… »
By Ed Lingao / PCIJ on November 22 2012 9:37 am
By Ed Lingao Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism First of Two Parts ON JUNE 6, 2011, a year and a half after the Maguindanao Massacre claimed the lives of 58… »
By Ed Lingao / PCIJ on November 22 2012 9:33 am
By Ed Lingao Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism ARNEL CORTEZ MANALOTO, the lawyer of Andal Ampatuan Jr. who purchased eight of his properties in Davao City, is actually a young,… »
By Ed Lingao / PCIJ on July 7 2012 4:08 am
THE LONG road to peace takes a short detour to Camp Darapanan in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao, this weekend as the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) holds what it calls the “Bangsamoro General Assembly” at its center of gravity in Central Mindanao.
By Ed Lingao / PCIJ on July 7 2012 4:06 am
MAINSTREAM MEDIA have oft portrayed them as belligerent, intransigent, even war-mongering. But when the negotiating panel of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) faced the Manila media recently, Islamic scholars, historians, and academics confronted reporters.
By Ed Lingao / PCIJ on June 5 2012 7:01 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/04 June) — Mining firm Sagittarius Mines Inc. suffered another setback when the Environment Management Bureau (EMB) denied its appeal to have an earlier decision overturned, derailing… »
By Ed Lingao / PCIJ on November 29 2011 8:54 pm
FORMER Maguindanao Governor Andal Salibo Ampatuan Sr. is, as far as his statements of assets, liabilities, and net worth (SALN) are concerned, a simple farmer. His son Zaldy, formerly the… »
By Ed Lingao / PCIJ on November 23 2011 10:21 pm
JUST A few weeks after the Nov. 23, 2009 Maguindanao Massacre, where 58 people including 32 journalists were executed in a remote barangay in Ampatuan town, officials of the Firearms and Explosives Division (FED) of the Philippine National Police (PNP) were surprised to receive a deluge of applications for gun amnesty from one particular province in Mindanao.
By Ed Lingao / PCIJ on October 28 2011 7:21 am
MAKATI CITY (MindaNews/27 October) — I think I have spent enough time in the field to know that the anger of foot soldiers is quite understandable, although sometimes misdirected. The… »