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Ricardo Perez-Solero

Ricardo Perez-Solero

Ricardo is a Southeast Asia-based journalist with a focus in long form multimedia productions. He has reported from Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Burma and Indonesia for the Spanish news agency Efe and collaborated with Al Jazeera, The Diplomat, Southeast Asia Globe, South China Morning Post, Equal Times, DW News and others.
Ricardo is a Southeast Asia-based journalist with a focus in long form multimedia productions. He has reported from Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Burma and Indonesia for the Spanish news agency Efe and collaborated with Al Jazeera, The Diplomat, Southeast Asia Globe, South China Morning Post, Equal Times, DW News and others.
Languages Spoken:
English

The Taliban forbids music. These young musicians who fled have new problems

With music now forbidden across Afghanistan, young members of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music fled to Portugal, where they are struggling to keep their musical traditions alive.

Golfrid Siregar had taken on the Chinese-funded hydroelectric power plant being built deep in the Sumatran rainforest, a project environmentalists claim threatens the survival of the unique Tapanuli orangutan.

Religious soap operas are big business in the Muslim-majority country, where secular filmmakers face death threats from hardline viewers.

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At just 20, the social-media savvy Karmila Purba – one of the most successful female riders in the Satan’s Barrel stunt show – has become a symbol of female empowerment in Indonesia.

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The Muslim-majority nation is using a pornography law to target LGBT people, with public humiliation a ritual punishment, forcing those infected with HIV underground and sparking fears of an epidemic

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