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 On February 7, Frenchie Mae Cumpio, a community journalist from Leyte, marks her sixth year in detention—an incarceration that rights and media groups strongly believe stems from her work as a journalist.
As a radio broadcaster, Cumpio reported on the lives of farmers, urban poor communities, and disaster survivors in Eastern Visayas—stories rarely covered by national media. This is the democratic function of community journalism: to surface realities...

Recto Bank, an underwater reef in the West Philippine Sea, remains an enigma.
Little is publicly disclosed about it beyond its geology, oil and gas potential, and the decades-long struggle between the Philippines and China for control of its surface waters and the rich hydrocarbon deposits in its depths....

In a low-income community in the Manila suburb of Fairview, a large rectangular structure is rising near a busy highway clogged with vehicles, commuters, and commerce. Few passersby realize that this building is one of four data centers that will be...

CEBU, Philippines — Hollow block by hollow block, the Bugtai family is rebuilding their washed-out home in Liloan, a half-hour drive from Cebu City. When I visited two days after Christmas, seven weeks after a typhoon ravaged their community, they were...