Ana P Santos

Nine Fil­ipino truck dri­vers ex­pose abu­sive work­ing con­di­tions, but the Dutch pub­lic pros­e­cu­tor dis­miss­es them.

Work­ing on a deep sea fish­ing ves­sel was al­ready dan­ger­ous, but the pan­dem­ic has made a bad sit­u­a­tion worse.

Con­fined to their homes by lock­down, women have also found it dif­fi­cult to ac­cess fam­i­ly plan­ning ser­vices.

Fil­ipinos forced to wait weeks on ships an­chored in Mani­la Bay, as au­thor­i­ties strug­gle to or­gan­ise test­ing, quar­an­tine.

Gov­ern­ment re­leas­ing 10,000 in­mates, but cam­paign­ers say more has to be done be­cause pris­ons are so over­crowd­ed.

Ex­perts fear lift­ing re­stric­tions will trig­ger surge in new cas­es, but many peo­ple al­ready suf­fer­ing eco­nom­ic fall­out.

Mani­la’s poor suf­fer as Philip­pines re­lies on mil­i­tary ap­proach to deal with pub­lic health prob­lem.

Philip­pine med­ical work­ers face de­riso­ry pay, out­right hos­til­i­ty in a health sys­tem un­der­mined by decades of ne­glect.

Re­li­gious gath­er­ing in Malaysia that drew 16,000 Mus­lims from about 30 coun­tries linked to spike in COVID-19 cas­es.

Mani­la-based Ana San­tos de­scribes the lo­gis­ti­cal hur­dles she went through try­ing to get home as the pan­dem­ic ac­cel­er­at­ed.