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Generals in Duterte’s Cabinet face hard lessons amid COVID-19 lockdown

While nobody questions the generals’ personal integrity, their policies display lack of consensus-building skills and a narrow preference for ‘order’ over empathy

Philippines’ COVID-19 mass testing highlights effects of slow govt action

Health officials have ordered a stop to the testing of people for COVID-19 in a village in the central Philippines after learning that at least 54...

In Modi’s India, virus fallout inflames divisions between Muslims and Hindus

Many Muslims feel unfairly blamed for spreading COVID-19

India charges Muslim leader with culpable homicide for coronavirus surge

Some have cautioned against fanning communal tension by laying the blame for the spread of the coronavirus on Muslim group

Healthcare and social protection for all

There is hunger in the world not because we lack resources but because we lack generosity

Workers feel pain as factories in Cambodia suspend operations due to...

Future is uncertain for thousands of workers as overseas companies cancel orders

When will the contagion end?

In the Philippines, as anywhere else, the COVID-19 pandemic goes beyond being just a health concern — it has economic, social and political repercussions

Priest makes faithful laugh amid Manila lockdown

A sociologist says humor as a coping mechanism helps create a positive atmosphere, ‘but it will eventually vanish if the agony is prolonged’

Duterte’s defeatism leaves Filipinos leaderless against COVID-19

The Philippine president should avoid making outrageous claims in press conferences he likes to hold at ungodly hours

India’s poor fear starvation more than COVID-19

Hunger and uncertainty haunt daily wage earners during lockdown

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