Sulu and the Outbreak: Parsugpatan Sin Silaturrahim (Links, Connections, and the Bridge of Compassion)
JOLO, Sulu (MindaNews / 28 March) -- Due to its physical topography as archipelagic and its geographical location as having dispersed island municipalities,...
Sulu and the Outbreak: Hostility, Hospitality, Hospital
JOLO, Sulu (MindaNews / 28 March) -- The road to new normal Sulu is paved with ringing laughter and banter of giggly...
Why green energy can’t gain ground in the Philippines
Mindanao will have yet another solar power plant, aside from this one in Cagayan de Oro City, this time a much...
Higaonons in Esperanza exceed targets for COVID-19 vaccination
ESPERANZA, Agusan del Sur (MindaNews / 23 February) -- The high vaccination rate against COVID-19 in the 20 villages on the western...
COVID-19 and Culture: Why some Lumads in Bukidnon reject vaccines
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 18 February) -- If Higaonon Datu Bagani Alfredo Lake could have his way, he would not have taken the...
[SPECIAL REPORT] Low acceptance of COVID-19 booster vaccines worries Lantapan’s health officer
LANTAPAN, Bukidnon (MindaNews / 18 February) – By all indications, life has returned to its normal grind in this vegetable-producing town after...
[SPECIAL REPORT] In the town of Esperanza, health literacy brings hope for higher vax...
ESPERANZA, Agusan del Sur (MindaNews / 11 February) – In this town named after the Spanish word for “hope,” improving health literacy among...
SPECIAL REPORT“May COVID pa po ba, Doc?”
DATU HOFFER AMPATUAN, Maguindanao del Sur (MindaNews / 22 January) – “May COVID pa po ba, Doc (Is COVID-19 still around, Doctor)?” Dr....
SPECIAL REPORT Solar power lights up, enhances productivity in remote SouthCot IP village
Solar panel system powers communities in Barangay Ned in Lake Sebu, South Cotabato. MindaNews photo by BONG S. SARMIENTO
SPECIAL REPORT: T’boli women now prefer delivering babies in birthing facilities
MAITUM, Sarangani (MindaNews / 18 September) -- Louie Manuel came out of his mother’s womb 10 years ago inside their nipa hut...
SPECIAL REPORT: After 3 years, BARMM-funded projects now welcome in Cotabato City
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 17 September) – Three years after the establishment of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), residents...
Politicians foot campaign bill of Sara Duterte as she banks on father’s popularity
Vice President-elect Sara Duterte takes her oath of office administered by Supreme court Justice Ramon Paul Hernando in Davao City on...
Marcos return to Malacañang funded by donors linked to father’s ‘cronies’, gov’t contractors
CAMPAIGN FINANCE AUDIT 2022
Partido Federal ng Pilipinas footed 40% of President Ferdinand Marcos...
[SPECIAL REPORT] Mindanao 2022 to 2025: fat and obese dynasties rule (1)
1st of three parts
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews /11 July) – Across Mindanao’s 27 provinces, 33 cities and 60 congressional districts,...
SPECIAL REPORT: From bullets to ballots: MILF fields local bets for the 2022 polls
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 30 April) – Along the banks of the Tamontaka River near the majestic Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mosque...
Anxiety deepens among bakwits with delay in passage of Marawi Compensation Bill
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews / 01 December) — Tears welled from the eyes of Sittie Almairah Pangarungan Daud wetting the veil of the black hijab...
SPECIAL REPORT: Microplastics from plastic trash choke Sarangani Bay
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 29 September) – Sarangani Bay, a protected seascape known for its rich biodiversity, is being threatened by waste pollution:...
SPECIAL REPORT: Treating TB in last mile communities: medicines are free but ride to...
MALAPATAN, Sarangani (MindaNews / 04 September) -- Lumads or indigenous peoples (IPs) in far-flung or last mile communities of this quaint town need to...
SPECIAL REPORT: Datu Paglas fears return to bloody past as thousands of banana workers...
DATU PAGLAS, Maguindanao (MindaNews / 24 May) -- Once a busy hive of activities, the headquarters of banana producer La Frutera, Inc. is now...
7M hectares of Philippine land are forested — and that’s bad news
By Karol Ilagan
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
The country has been vulnerable to massive flooding linked to deforestation. The coronavirus pandemic is also a catastrophe...
SPECIAL REPORT Fisherfolk say martial law stopped extortion and piracy in Sibugay seas
IPIL, Zamboanga Sibugay (MindaNews / 05 October ) Subsistence fisherfolk in Zamboanga Sibugay say that if there is one good thing about martial law...
SPECIAL REPORT: EO 70, martial law and human rights in...
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 04 October) -- Teacher Lovely Jane Bibaoco, a resident of Arakan in North Cotabato remembers the deployment of soldiers in...
Kidapawan City: no longer a venue of protest actions
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 04 October) -- The image of thousands of farmers barricading the national highway in Kidapawan City on Mach30 to April...
SPECIAL REPORT: Bats as farmworkers, peacekeepers: conserve, protect, respect them
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 29 September) -- A team of experts discovered a strain of betacoronavirus in the bat species Cynopterus brachyotis during an exploratory surveillance in...
SPECIAL REPORT. Davao City’s Lumads: their way of life has prepared them for...
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 28 September) – On this gloomy Thursday morning, Enrico Angalan is in his farm in a mountain village of predominantly...
SPECIAL REPORT: COVID-19, Plantitos, Plantitas and greening Davao City: cleaner air as...
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 22 August) -- In the early months of the COVID-19 lockdown, a group of people talked about replicating a barter...
SPECIAL REPORT: COVID-19 lockdown a boon for ‘pawikans’ in Sarangani Bay
ALABEL, Sarangani (MindaNews / 15 August) – On May 2 this year, at the height of the lockdown triggered by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19),...
SPECIAL REPORT (3). From RAG to ARMM to BARMM: the IP’s struggle for...
Last of three parts
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 09 August) -- Alim Bandara, council member of the Teduray Justice and Governance told MindaNews that the...
SPECIAL REPORT (2). From RAG to ARMM to BARMM: the IP’s struggle for ancestral...
2nd of three parts
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 08 August) -- The Tedurays, Lambangians and Dulangans in Maguindanao and other non-Moro IPs in the Bangsamoro...
SPECIAL REPORT (1): From RAG to ARMM to BARMM: the IP’s struggle for...
1st of three parts
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 07 August) -- “Where is the promise to the non-Moro Indigenous Peoples (IP)? Where is the promise...
SPECIAL REPORT. Asserting the Lumads’ right to education: learning goes on despite closure...
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 28 July) -- On clear and sunny weekdays, the activities of students break the silence of this small High School...
SPECIAL REPORT: Policy review of waste management needed as Davao City grapples with household...
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews /01 July) -- Mercy Muhamad, 44, dismounts from the rusty bicycle’s sidecar even before her husband has come to a full...
SPECIAL REPORT: COVID-19 slams South Cotabato vegetable farmers hard; DA urged to provide...
LAKE SEBU, South Cotabato (MindaNews / 30 June) – At Crossing Luib in Barangay Talisay here, Jeanalyn Valenzuela, a mother of three, counted 1,779...
SPECIAL REPORT: For Lumads in Diatagon, life has been a series of evacuations
LIANGA, Surigao del Sur (MindaNews /09 March) -- The heavy presence of the military in Sitio Simowao, a Lumad community in the coastal town...
SPECIAL REPORT (2): SMI gears up to mine mammoth Tampakan copper-gold project
Last of two parts
TAMPAKAN, South Cotabato (MindaNews / 23 January) -- Based on Sagittarius Mines Incorporated’s (SMI) exploration studies finished a long time ago,...
SPECIAL REPORT (1): SMI gears up to mine mammoth Tampakan copper-gold project
SPECIAL REPORT
1st of 2 parts
TAMPAKAN, South Cotabato (MindaNews / 22 Jan) – At a sari-sari store nestled deep in the mountains that host Southeast...
Dream train for Mindanao still in the doldrums
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 27 Nov) – More than halfway into President Rodrigo Duterte’s six-year term, the dream train that he promised to build...
Big payout, bagful of treats for short-term CJs
THEY SERVE for just a few days or at most two years, but get fat payouts when they retire. Unto their dying days they...
Shortlisted: The JBC interviews with the CJ nominees
By the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
and the Court Appointments Watch Network
ONE sweated profusely and even teared up, another confessed to having a talent...
Clans in Congress want to go ‘hybrid’: Comelec line change: 7 Duterte appointees to...
By Malou Mangahas and Karol Ilagan
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
CLEAN, honest, inclusive, and credible elections might well turn into just a pipedream when the...
COA scores Comelec: PhP2.6-B contracts had no fund cover docs
By Karol Ilagan
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
GOOD, sound procurement processes apparently do not define the Commission on Elections (Comelec).
In truth, the poor planning, delivery...
16M failed to vote for party-list, missed names on back of ballot
May 2019 Elections: Fraud-free? Fault-free?
16M failed to vote for party-list, missed names on back of ballot
By Karol Anne M. Ilagan
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
FAILED TO...
May 2019 Elections: Fraud-free? Fault-free? A billion-peso blunder: 6 in 10 machines to verify...
By Karol Anne M. Ilagan and Malou Mangahas
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
THE MAY 2019 elections have been declared to be fraud-free by both election...
SIDEBAR: Watchdogs monitor more bad machines
A DISASTROUS mess.
That, in a nutshell, is the picture painted by field reports obtained by PCIJ from poll watchdogs National Citizens’ Movement for Free...
Almaciga: Lighting up lives in Governor Generoso (Last of Three Parts)
Sustainable income
GOVERNOR GENEROSO, Davao Oriental (MindaNews/08 August) – The Biodiversity Partnership Project covers 12 of the town’s 20 barangays namely, Sergio Osmeña, Tandang Sora,...
Almaciga: Lighting up lives in Governor Generoso (Second of Three Parts)
Valuable but endangered
GOVERNOR GENEROSO, Davao Oriental (MindaNews/07 August) – An evergreen large tree of the Araucariaceae family, almaciga grows up to 65 meters in...
Almaciga: Lighting up lives in Governor Generoso (First Part)
GOVERNOR GENEROSO, Davao Oriental (MindaNews/06 August) – This coastal town used to be called Sigaboy, a name that has remained widely used by both...
Nearly 18 months after ‘liberation,” Marawi has yet to rise from the ashes of...
“When it rains here, it leaks. When the sun is high, it is very hot inside. The heat is intolerable,” Norphia Dipatuan, mother of six lamented.
The Dutertes: Wealth and Riddles (3). Dutertes mix up data on 23 business interests,...
BY THE DISCLOSURES in their asset records, President Rodrigo Duterte, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte, and former Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte have interests and engagements in a total of at least 23 corporate entities.
The Dutertes: Wealth Reveal & Riddles (2) Duterte, Sara, Paolo mark big spikes...
IN THE May 2019 elections, not just two but all three children of President Rodrigo R. Duterte by estranged spouse Elizabeth A. Zimmerman are running. But unlike those of many other candidates, their clan coffers won’t be running empty. In fact, these are probably going to end up largely untouched, or may even be further enhanced wealth-wise, as in previous campaigns.