Southeast Asia

Filipino children made homeless after December’s tropical storm need proper care, writes Iris Gonzales.

Filed in: Children Disasters Philippines

What do you do if your job is to write about a tragedy of which you are part? Iris Gonzales meets some of the journalists whose lives were turned upside down by tropical storm Sendong.

Filed in: Disasters Philippines

Daniel Pye reports from Indonesia on a dogged resistance by rural communities to plantation companies’ violent land-grabbing.

Filed in: Environment Indonesia

This year, 25 December was about survival, not celebration, for the people of northern Mindanao in the Philippines, says Iris Gonzales.

Filed in: Disasters Philippines Water

Where is Benigno Aquino’s empathy for his people? asks Iris Gonzales.

Filed in: Disasters Philippines Politics

Student attempts to occupy Manila may have been thwarted – but the protests will continue, says Iris Gonzales.

Filed in: Activism Philippines

It’s 50 years since West Papua first won independence, only for Indonesia to cruelly snatch it away. Nick Harvey reports on the tensions in the region.

Filed in: Activism Democracy Human Rights Indonesia West Papua

The former Philippines president has been arrested, but it will take more than anti-corruption measures to save the country’s economy, says Iris Gonzales.

Filed in: Philippines

Two years after the Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines, the victims have not been forgotten, says Iris Gonzales.

Filed in: Philippines

A report from the Philippines revealing the latest child abuse figures makes devastating reading, discovers Iris Gonzales.

Filed in: Children Philippines Southeast Asia

Burmese women expose military’s complicity in the opium trade

Filed in: Burma Drugs