Ma Aye,  whose husband left the Myanmar military after the 2021 coup and who herself grew up as a soldier’s daughter, gives an insider’s view of  life, exploitation and discrimination, in the armed forces.

Doing news work in Myanmar comes with high risk to life and safety, in a profession with uncertain prospects for the future. Since 2021 the coup, the junta has been using legal persecution as a weapon against journalism and journalists.

An overwhelming majority of journalists from Myanmar say they feel quite vulnerable to attacks and threats in the country’s often-toxic online spaces, going by insights from a survey done by Reporting ASEAN. The use of safer digital tools, however, is not widespread among news professionals.

Julieta Coro, a mother of 11 children who lives with her family close to the sea in Siargao island, recalls how they took shelter from super typhoon Odette’s destruction in December 2021.

One year after super typhoon Odette pummelled scenic Siargao island in December 2021, locals in the Philippines’ surfing capital –  the site of international surfing competitions – are bent on making their hometown stronger, better and an even more popular tourist haven. Still, there is nervousness about the changing behaviour of storms amid climate change.

The vice mayor of the Siargao town, Romina Rusillon Sajulga, recalls how the community put a diarrhoea outbreak under control in the days after super typhoon Odette hit one year ago.

School’s back. But Siargao’s education sector is recovering not only from COVID-19 but from the devastation of Odette – at a time when the reality of having more powerful storms in the climate emergency continues. “We don’t have typhoon drills,” says a local teacher.

These drawings reflect kids memories’ of the massive destruction caused by super typhoon Odette in their hometown, the Philippine island of Siargao.

It is risky times for any independent journalist in Myanmar, but Ma Khine is among those who stay with their craft despite the risks to life and security, and the inadequate income from the news profession these days.

Filipinos are the most worried about climate change, given the high risk for disasters that their country faces. But a regional survey shows that they are not necessarily aware of the country’s climate policies, such as its lack of a net-zero target.

Cambodia prepares its first submissions for a natural world heritage site – a dolphin conservation area in Kratie province – and a geopark at a wildlife sanctuary in Mondulkiri.

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Many university campuses have reopened in the Philippines, which until August 2022 had among the longest school closures in the world. As students mix in-person with remote-learning classes, they wonder how their pandemic-era education will shape their future.

Myanmar would not be able to handle climate-related or other disasters, on top of its fragile situation in conflict, the economy and health. While there is not much talk of sustainability, it is a crucial factor given the country’s insecurity.

The May release of a giant stingray back into the Mekong’s deepest waters in Cambodia made headlines, but threats to the Mekong persist. Several Irrawaddy dolphins in Cambodia have died. The last one in Laos, living in a Lao-Cambodia deep pool, died in February.

Viewers see how Irrawaddy dolphins have changed from being friends of fishers in the Mekong Delta, to once-upon-a-time creatures, since they are no longer seen in Vietnam. This animation was created by multimedia student Le Chan Thinh for a school competition.

More than two decades after the ASEAN power grid became a regional commitment, it is far from being a network for transboundary trade in electricity. But this year, Singapore will finally receive electricity from Laos’ hydroelectric power.

Funny but serious is how cartoons have been in the political conversations in the Philippines, which votes for a new president in May. Visual artist Kapitan Tambay talks to Reporting ASEAN about visual storytelling.

၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှာ အာဏာသိမ်းပြီးနောက်တွင်ဒုက္ခသည်များ၊ ခိုလှုံခွင့် တောင်းခံသူများ၊ ပြည်ပရောက်သူ သို့မဟုတ် ထိုသို့အခွင့်ရရန် စောင့်နေသူများသည် တိုင်းပြည်၏ ရှိပြီးသား ပြည်ပရောက် နိုင်ငံသားဦးရေ ပမာဏတွင် ထပ်တိုးစာရင်းဖြစ်ပြီး အိမ်နှင့်အဝေးမှာနေရင်း အိမ်လွမ်းနေကြရသည်။ သူတို့သည် ရရာအလုပ် ဝင်လုပ်ကြပြီး မိသားစုကို၊ တော်လှန်ရေး အင်အားစုများကို လှမ်းထောက်ပံ့နေကြရင်း လက်ရှိဘဝမှာ ယာယီအခိုက်အတန့်သာ ဖြစ်သည်ဟု အားခဲနေကြသည်။

We all know that sexual harassment exists in news work, but the insights offered by this WAN-IFRA survey tell us more about how it is viewed, understood and addressed (or not so).