I started blogging in 2004 but before that I was a columnist of Tinig (Voice) web magazine. I was news editor of Yehey! for three years (2005-08), and columnist of UPI-Asia from 2007 to 2009. I’m currently the Southeast Asia editor of Global Voices and contributor to the ASEAN Beat of The Diplomat online magazine. I represented Kabataan Partylist in the 14th and 15th Congress of the Philippines. I am the chairman of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) Metro Manila.
Singapore Government Threatens Critics and Independent Media with Defamation Claims
Defamation cases against a news site and blogger have put the country's severe restrictions on free speech back in the spotlight. The cases, which target blogger Leong Sze Hian and…
Is Jair Bolsonaro Another Rodrigo Duterte? It’s More Complicated Than You Think
There are two main classes of people who call Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's proudly homophobic, misogynistic, torture-loving president-elect, the “Trump of the tropics”: North American journalists and, well, Bolsonaro himself, who…