This speech was delivered by Chief Justice Puno during the International Conference on Impunity and Press Freedom in Peninsula Manila on February 27, 2008.
Freedom of Press: A Touchstone of Democracy
by Chief Justice Reynato S. Puno
We are here now to strengthen democracy, especially one of its touchstones— the freedom of the press.
It is a [...]
Freedom of Press: A Touchstone of Democracy
[cmfrnews] Legal experts, press freedom advocates flying in from Asia, US, Europe, and Latin America to address the killing of journalists in the Philippines
CMFR- MANILA – Legal experts and press freedom advocates from Asia, Europe, the US, and from as far as Latin America are flying into Manila this week to help find solutions to a long-festering crisis in the Philippines: the unabated and unsolved killing of journalists throughout the country.
Prosecutors, judges, human rights advocates and even high-level [...]
Oozing Tears for US$150M
Robert Bolisay, Jr.
Just got a message this morning that says the alleged kick back the former Commission on Election chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. was asking from the US$329 million national broadband network deal between the China’s ZTE Corporation and the Philippines is worth P6.5 billion (US$150 million).
That amount is more than half the entire government’s [...]
The Lone Man of Pampanga
Robert Bolisay, Jr.
A friend in the media has told me that this about 8-month-provincial revenue under Governor Ed Panlilio is much higher than the whole gubernatorial term collection when stuntman-turned action star-turned politician Lito Lapid was still the governor.
I am talking about the quarry revenue in Pampanga that reached P153.6 million as of February 20, [...]
Baguio media join SC case to stop press freedom threat
NUJP- BAGUIO CITY – Media practitioners in this summer capital city signed on Monday a petition to intervene on a case filed by Manila-based media practitioners which seeks the aid of the Supreme Court to stop government agencies from continuously threatening press freedom.
The sixteen journalists alleged in their petition-in-intervention for prohibition and injunction that [...]
