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Inside a Chinese gambling entity: What happens, who works, how?
In the bustling offshore gambling industry in the Philippines today, a conservative estimate of 100,000 people work. About 90 percent of them are mainland Chinese. In this interview, a Chinese...
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Where is China money going? Gambling, real estate, tours, big cities big winners
The biggest recipient of Chinese foreign direct investments in the Philippines these days is the online or offshore gambling industry. Since Duterte assumed the presidency, real-estate companies,...
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The ABC’s of Chinese State-Backed Finance, Foreign Direct Investments
The Overlap of Chinese Official Foreign Aid and Foreign Direct Investments WHEN PROVIDING Official Development Assistance or ODA, Western donors typically require the recipient states to adhere to...
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RICHARD JAVAD Heydarian, a resident commentator of GMA Network, has repeatedly pointed out that China has fooled the Philippines into giving up the South China Sea in exchange for unrealized capital....
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INDONESIA: Political Reporting Can Do With Female Touch
THE ROUGH and tumble world of politics is supposed to be the territory of male journalists in Indonesia, but many of their female counterparts say they are not only being assigned to cover it, they...
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TIMOR-LESTE: Still Feeling Pressed
TIMOR LESTE’S ranking in the latest press-freedom index of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) leaped by 11 places from the previous year, but those on the ground do not feel any improvement in the...
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LAOS: Screws on Online Discourse Get Even Tighter
THE ABSENCE of independent media and shrinking civic space have effectively deprived the citizens of Laos of timely and qualitative information, including those that are critical in keeping them safe...
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VIETNAM: The Net as the New ‘Battlefield’
IT WOULD be almost impossible to discuss media freedom in Vietnam without first reviewing the country’s political situation over the past year. The unique Communist one-party system, combined with a...
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SINGAPORE: Cyberspace Headed for More Control
SINGAPORE’S media industry has long been tightly controlled by the government. This is unlikely to change in 2019; in fact, new legislation is expected that could further curb press freedom and...
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MYANMAR: Broken Promises Put the Press in Peril
IT HAS just a little more than a year before its five-year term ends, but Myanmar’s ruling National League of Democracy (NLD) still has a lot of promises left unfulfilled. Among these are reforming...
View ArticleGov’t, media can’t play fast, loose with due process and rule of law
Statement of Journalists and Media Organizations on the Duterte Administration’s List of Alleged “Narco Politicians” WE, JOURNALISTS AND MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS, express grave concern about the likely...
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PCIJ Audit: Candidates on Social Media
A “PROMOTIONAL TOUCHPOINT.” That, in advertising and PR parlance, is what social media apparently looks like to candidates for senator in the May 2019 elections, and they have been using it as such...
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P2.4-B pre-campaign ads: Bong Go, Marcos, Roxas, Roque top spenders
TO THE last, they have pledged to fight poverty and corruption, promote health and education, protect the environment, and serve the poor who make up a majority of over 60 million registered...
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Candidates, beware: Law bans bribery, cash gifts, donations
UNDER ELECTION laws, they were not yet officially considered to be candidates, and therefore not yet incurring campaign expenditures, until after the official campaign period had started.But under...
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FOI, Kaya pa? Is there a future for FOI under DU30 administration?
FOI advocates march to Malacanang, November 2012. Should it happen again? File photo WE LOOK BACK to two years ago when hopes were high –- for order, for rule of law, for discipline, for transparency,...
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FOI Practice Report of Ateneo Policy Center: A Transparent Age of...
FOI Practice Report from the Ateneo Policy Center (APC) I. Organizational Profile Established in 1996, the Ateneo School of Government boasts 20 years of experience in delivering leading-edge policy...
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Usapang Bigas: FOI Practice on Availability, Price Stability, and Importation...
I. Organizational ProfileThe Right to Know, Right Now! (R2KRN) Coalition has been a staunch advocate for the passage of the FOI Law since it was convened in 2002, initially as the Access to...
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FOI Practice Report of Action forEconomic Reforms: Is TRAIN on Track?
FOI Practice of the Action for Economic Reforms on the Implementation of the TRAIN Law’s Social Mitigating Measures I. Organizational ProfileAction for Economic Reforms (AER) is a public-interest...
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Bantay Kita FOI Practice Report: MOAs between IPs and mining firms
Requests for Memorandum of Agreement (MOAs) between IP Organizations and the 13 large-scale metallic mines that participated in the Fourth PH EITI Report for 2016 I. Organizational ProfileBantay Kita...
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Exceedingly slow rehab work leaves Meranaws restless ‘people of the tents’
Displaced residents of Marawi at the Balo-i Gymnasium 9, Philippine Information Agency photo published June 2, 2017, http://pia.gov.ph/photogallery/photos/101 MARAWI CITY — As early as September last...
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