The Nestle corporate lawyer who successfully defended child slavery is okay, I repeat: the Nestle corporate lawyer who successfully defended child slavery is alive and well

Golf is often a target of water cuts by regulators — and of environmentalists who believe the game uses far too many resources in a world of water scarcity. wapo.st/45NISmQ

Some 15 activists and community organisers have gone missing in the Philippines since President Ferdinand Marcos Jr took power in June 2022 aje.io/ntftv8

Israel is threatening to shut down the local bureau of Al-Jazeera, one of the few global media outlets with a physical presence both in Gaza and Israel. cpj.org/2023/10/cpj-ur…

Military kidnappings of Philippine activists have produced a public outcry, Nick Aspinwall reports. foreignpolicy.com/2023/11/09/phi…

A star architect is building swaths of flood-resistant homes out of bamboo in Pakistan. What makes the material so “marvelous”? These are not disaster relief shelters, but disaster-resistant homes. wapo.st/3RkJOui

Q&A: ‘I need to be vindicated’: Leila de Lima on Duterte and the drug war aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/8…

The Philippine province torn between China and the U.S. Just a few years ago, the northeastern Philippine province of Cagayan was a major focus of Chinese investment. Now, Manila is using the area to bolster the U.S. military's presence in the country. s.nikkei.com/3GAcObf

According to experts, TikTok has been flooded with false or sensationalized videos by accounts exhibiting behavior consistent with organized Chinese disinformation operations. trib.al/nozYn6L

The Taiwanese presidential election was not an outright victory against disinformation, but it offers important lessons for combating disinformation writ large, Nick Aspinwall writes. foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/16/tai…

NEW: We looked at records of Karapatan & KAPATID and found that current political prisoners stay in jail an average of 4 years while waiting on trial. Hundreds were arrested during Duterte's time, and languish in jail without judgment. Read: rappler.com/newsbreak/data…

Sara Duterte-Carpio: Feud puts spotlight on Philippines’ vice president aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/15…

The split between Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Rodrigo Duterte has reverberated in Washington and Beijing, Nick Aspinwall writes. foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/28/phi…

The US and the Philippines have launched Javelin missiles and fired howitzers to simulate repelling a maritime invasion along the coast of the South China Sea aje.io/z79b1l

"In the Sixth Extinction, the asteroid is an F-150... Whether you’re a pedestrian or a porcupine, you live in the thrall of roads." For Slate, I wrote about the linked fates of humans & wildlife—and how we're all roadkill these days. #roadecology slate.com/technology/202…

At the height of the COVID pandemic, the US military launched a secret propaganda operation to counter China’s growing influence in Southeast Asia, aiming to sow doubt about the safety and efficacy of China’s vaccines and other aid reut.rs/3z3dSDZ

Philippine farmers’ core objections against two key miracle crops are centered on historical fears of top-down corporate control of agriculture, Nick Aspinwall writes. foreignpolicy.com/2024/06/13/phi…