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The Tripoli Agreement of 1976: Lessons, impact on the Mindanao peace process
A FORTNIGHT AGO on July 27, 2018, President Duterte signed Republic Act No. 11054 or the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) that was finalized by the Senate and the House of Representatives bicameral...
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The PowerChina puzzle: Newly registered ‘domestic firm’ bids for P17-B Marawi...
LAST JULY 2, after being declared ineligible to bid for the multibillion-peso contract to rebuild Marawi City’s conflict zone or “most affected area (MAA),” a consortium led by a China state-owned...
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Bangon Marawi? Rush to seal deals locked in delay, confusion, funds lack
http://pcij.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Marawi-Rehab-Delays_PCIJ.mp4SINCE last May, the task force leading the government’s efforts to rebuild the Islamic City of Marawi in Lanao del Sur has been...
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Top 10 contractors under DU30 runrecord of fraud, delays, blacklisting
THREE HAD been suspended or blacklisted, including one for submitting fake tax clearance certificates. One had its corporate registration revoked. The officers of four others are facing trial for...
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THE GOVERNMENT awards a contractor-bidder a contract if its bid amount has been evaluated and found to be the “lowest calculated bid.” The bid will be subjected next to post-qualification, which...
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Davao Region most favored; othersget cuts, token hike in infra budgets
IT’S AS GOOD as it gets for Davao Region, home and bailiwick of President Rodrigo R. Duterte. And by the government’s own data, it’s as bad as it gets for many other regions of the country in terms of...
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WE STAND by our story and take exception to the statement of Special Assistant to the President Christopher Lawrence “Bong” T. Go that our report on the multibillion-peso civil works contracts that the...
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In pictures: Anyare, Marawi?
This was the spot where people loved to pose when in Marawi. It is now peppered with bullet holes. This “I Love Marawi” site is located beside Lake Lanao. Photo by BOBBY TIMONERA EXACTLY A YEAR AGO...
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A year after ‘liberation’, Meranaws await rehabilitation
Click to view: MarawiLiberated, 17oct18MARAWI CITY – The groundbreaking for the government’s ambitious rehabilitation of this city was supposed to take place today, the first anniversary of Marawi’s...
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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...
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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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...
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