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CAMBODIA: Suppression via Legislation
IN 2018 and early 2019, media freedom and the right to free expression came under sustained pressure in the Kingdom of Cambodia. In the past year, the Royal Government of Cambodia adopted several...
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VIETNAM: The Net as the New ‘Battlefield’
IT WOULD be almost impossible to discuss media freedom in Vietnam without first reviewing the country’s political situation over the past year. The unique Communist one-party system, combined with a...
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TIMOR-LESTE: Still Feeling Pressed
TIMOR LESTE’S ranking in the latest press-freedom index of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) leaped by 11 places from the previous year, but those on the ground do not feel any improvement in the...
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INDONESIA: Political Reporting Can Do With Female Touch
THE ROUGH and tumble world of politics is supposed to be the territory of male journalists in Indonesia, but many of their female counterparts say they are not only being assigned to cover it, they...
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INDONESIA: More of the Same Isn’t Good
THE YEAR 2019 marks the second decade of Indonesian media’s reform era. Although strongman Soeharto stepped down as president of Indonesia in 1998, it was only in 1999 that reforms began in the...
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The ABC’s of Chinese State-Backed Finance, Foreign Direct Investments
The Overlap of Chinese Official Foreign Aid and Foreign Direct Investments WHEN PROVIDING Official Development Assistance or ODA, Western donors typically require the recipient states to adhere to...
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Where is China money going? Gambling, real estate, tours, big cities big winners
The biggest recipient of Chinese foreign direct investments in the Philippines these days is the online or offshore gambling industry. Since Duterte assumed the presidency, real-estate companies,...
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Inside a Chinese gambling entity: What happens, who works, how?
In the bustling offshore gambling industry in the Philippines today, a conservative estimate of 100,000 people work. About 90 percent of them are mainland Chinese. In this interview, a Chinese...
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Pol ads of Roxas, 6 Hugpong betsnear breach of spending caps in law
Front-runners, cliff-hangers, or tail-enders, candidates for senator who come from political clans with deep pockets or rich backers have dominated the air war for votes. The top seven spenders have...
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2 worlds, 2 realities? They rank high in surveys, but not on social media
IT’S ALREADY a given how Filipinos are such big users of social media, especially Facebook. Last February, PCIJ conducted a social-media audit of what some senatorial candidates in the May 13, 2019...
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