Sam Verzosa says education is in crisis as children study for hours but underperform in testsA lawmaker in the Philippines has proposed banning schools from setting homework at weekends, saying students are overworked and need to recharge.Sam Verzosa, …
続きを読むThe progressive Move Forward party won more votes than any other but faces an uphill struggle to form governmentThe election in Thailand ended with an unexpected result: the triumph of progressive, anti-military party Move Forward. But due to Thailand’…
続きを読むCivilians are being killed by Russian weapons just like in Ukraine, says special rapporteur Tom Andrews in call for global actionMyanmar is a “failing state” and the crisis is getting exponentially worse, a UN special rapporteur for the country has war…
続きを読むKem Sokha, an opponent of Cambodian dictator Hun Sen, sentenced after treason trial widely seen as politically drivenProminent Cambodian opposition politician Kem Sokha has been sentenced to 27 years in prison after being found guilty of treason, in a …
続きを読むAfter raids at the New Bilibid prison identified thousands of contraband goods, the management of the country’s prisons is in the spotlightWhen officials last raided the Philippines’ biggest prison, their discoveries ranged from deadly to bizarre. Tens…
続きを読むCrusading pathologist Raquel Fortun finds evidence of multiple murder at the direction of ‘a madman’ in the exhumed remains of young FilipinosIt was in an old university stockroom, with wooden tables salvaged from a junkyard, that Raquel Fortun began t…
続きを読むPolice in Loei trying to determine if the animals migrated or were taken as part of a trafficking operationFor decades, Tham Pha Mak Ho temple in north-east Thailand has been home to crowds of rhesus macaques. Every morning monks feed them with rice an…
続きを読むFriends of Duangpetch Promthep share emotional messages after the talented player was found dead in his dorm at a football academyTributes have been paid to Duangpetch Promthep, one of the 12 boys rescued from a flooded Thai cave in 2018, who died in t…
続きを読むThe Philippines accused a Chinese coastguard ship of directing a ‘military-grade laser light’ at one of its vessels, temporarily blinding a crew memberPhilippine president Ferdinand Marcos has summoned the Chinese ambassador to express serious concern …
続きを読むClaimant seeks $3m in damages to cover financial losses as well as rehabilitation and therapy to overcome ‘trauma’A man in Singapore is seeking more than S$3m (£1.87m) in damages from a woman who said she saw him only as a friend, claiming she caused h…
続きを読むDeal expands Washington’s access to military bases close to Taiwan and the South China SeaThe Philippines has granted the United States expanded access to its military bases, greatly enhancing Washington’s presence in the region at a time of growing co…
続きを読むThai capital’s already bad air made worse by forest fires and burning on farmsPeople in Bangkok have been advised to work from home and wear face masks due to air pollution that has worsened to unhealthy levels.Officials urged people to use public tran…
続きを読むSurvivors of alleged abuses at hands of military unite in universal jurisdiction case over atrocities they say amount to genocideA criminal complaint against individuals linked to Myanmar’s military has been filed in Germany by survivors from ethnic gr…
続きを読むCourt controlled by junta adds a further three years in jail to raft of other sentences handed to the former leaderMyanmar’s military coup explained in 30 secondsA military-controlled court in Myanmar has sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to a f…
続きを読むKaliwa dam project in the Sierra Madre would be disastrous for main island’s storm defences as well as biodiversity, say conservationistsAs Super Typhoon Noru made landfall in the Philippines last month and people across the main island of Luzon braced…
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