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After a slow start, former senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. topped ad spending among all candidates in December, signalling what could be the beginning of heavy spending to keep his…

Former senator Bongbong Marcos rides on the legacy of his father and namesake, the late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, but complains when he’s asked about the ugly truths of…

CHECK THIS PAGE FOR PCIJ's REPORTS ON PRISONS In its 2018 report, the “World Prison Brief” – a database maintained by the Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research at the…

CHECK THIS PAGE FOR PCIJ's REPORTS ON PRISONS Merriam-Webster defines a prison as “1: a state of confinement or captivity. 2: a place of confinement especially for lawbreakers…

CHECK THIS PAGE FOR PCIJ's REPORTS ON PRISONS While the term “inmates” generally refers to incarcerated individuals in one of the various correctional facilities in the country…

CHECK THIS PAGE FOR PCIJ's REPORTS ON PRISONS The US colonial-era Executive Order No. 65 s. 1945, signed by President Sergio Osmena, was the first to officially use the term…

CHECK THIS PAGE FOR PCIJ's REPORTS ON PRISONS Article II Section 11 of the 1987 Philippine Constitution, which says: “The State values the dignity of every human person and…

CHECK THIS PAGE FOR PCIJ's REPORTS ON PRISONS Legally, journalists and members of the media do not have special privileges inside prisons and jails in the Philippines apart from…

CHECK THIS PAGE FOR PCIJ's REPORTS ON PRISONS International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). ICCPR is a treaty adopted on Dec. 16, 1966 at the UN General Assembly…

CHECK THIS PAGE FOR PCIJ's REPORTS ON PRISONS The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) is the government agency responsible for directing, supervising and controlling all…

CHECK THIS PAGE FOR PCIJ's REPORTS ON PRISONS According to the PNP’s 2016 Manual in Handling Children at Risk and Children in Conflict with the Law: “A ‘child in conflict with the…

As traditional Khmer arts struggle with the loss of tourism dollars, artists see Cambodia’s reopening as a chance for revival and vital industry change

Candidates’ ads on Facebook have so far remained small relative to their total ad spending. The popular social media platform’s ad monitoring tool does not include payments to…

Candidates in the 2022 elections are talking about the Statement of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth. Why is it important? And why is access to these documents getting harder? In…

Southeast Asian domestic labourers often migrate to wealthier countries where they are excluded from labour protections and left vulnerable to abuse. While COVID-19 has made labour…

The pandemic has strained reforestation work in Sabah’s biodiverse Lower Kinabatangan region, but locals continue to replant trees in an effort to secure their livelihoods, protect…

This may require regional cooperation as well as new approaches, people in the field note

Community conservationists in Selangor are working to save the Shah Alam forest from planned development by showcasing its threatened biodiversity, disproving government claims and…

Indonesian migrant workers face an arduous fate amidst the pandemic. Some were not paid by their employers, fired, and were forced to seek side hustles in the middle of strict…

As tension increases in the South China Sea and the drafting of the Asean-China Code of Conduct goes ‘nowhere,’ half of Asean’s 10 member-states should unite and craft a framework…

It underscores the difficulty of monitoring campaign spending on the internet, which campaign finance reform advocates said would become a big challenge in the 2022 elections.