Search results for "Philippines"

Infrastructure funding

No tax, no spend

Southeast Asia’s governments have some of the world’s smallest tax takes, leaving the region struggling to pay for infrastructure and budget for health and education
By Simon Roughneen

Plastic waste imports

Waste not, want not

The discovery of 1,600 tonnes of illegal plastic waste in a Cambodian port is just the latest example of wealthy nations heaping their trash on countries ill-equipped to handle it
By Paul Millar

5 Reasons Cambodia is Best in the Region for Foreign Investments

Cambodia is the 6th Fastest Growing Country in the World. It comes second to Myanmar in the Southeast Asian Countries.
By IPS Cambodia

Piracy

A pirate’s paradise

In part two of our deep dive into modern-day piracy, we investigate why the region's governments seem willing to turn a blind eye to the pirates plundering their seas
By Robin Spiess

New media

Creative destruction

We sit down with some of the leading lights of Southeast Asia's media startup scene to talk about the way forward for the region's press
By Thomas Brent

Plastic waste

The waste land

Southeast Asia is racing to follow China's ban on plastic waste imports. And with Cambodia now forced to clean up its own mess, the Kingdom has a chance to turn piles of plastic trash into treasure
By Evie Breese and Thim Rachna

Illegal wildlife trade

Prescription for extinction

Traditional Chinese Medicine is a flagship of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. But scientists say demand for medicine containing animal parts could push tigers, bears, rhinos and pangolins to the brink of extinction
By Claire Baker-Munton

Garment waste

Out of fashion

Enough clothes have already been made to outfit everyone on the planet. But with rampant overproduction leaving more and more fabric waste in landfill, it's time to find a solution
By Amanda Kaufmann

South China Sea

Mr. Forones takes on China

For years, Beijing has been controlling islands, reefs and atolls in the South China Sea. And one Philippine fisherman has started fighting back
By Carsten Stormer

Poverty in the Philippines

Duterte’s other war

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's drug crackdown has often been slammed as a war on the nation's poor. But a new anti-poverty law is turning that narrative on its head
By Thomas Brent

Natural disasters

Apocalypse, soon

Soaring temperatures spurred by global warming and El Niño raise the risk of increasingly devastating storms, fires and floods. Is Southeast Asia ready?
By Claire Baker-Munton

Editorial

A new beginning.

The Globe may be changing, but our mission remains the same. This week we’re looking at how Cambodia’s women with disabilities remain at risk, why hydropower dams are fuelling climate change, the lasting legacy of Thaksin Shinawatra’s deadly drug war and more.
By Paul Millar