https://www.scmp.com/rss/510798/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Since leaving the Philippines in 2006 to work in Hong Kong, at age 19, I hadn’t really lived in my homeland. But when a short visit in 2020 stretched into 19 months, I was forced once again to become part of my hometown. And there, in the place of my ancestors, my heart was broken repeatedly as friends, acquaintances and community members succumbed to the coronavirus. Cut off from my usual creative networks, I started documenting the lives of the people I grew up with. I was as scared of... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/arts-music/article/3170815/life-philippines-amid-pandemic-recorded?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/arts-music/article/3170815/life-philippines-amid-pandemic-recorded?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 19 Mar 2022 23:45:16 +0000 Nueva Vizcaya, a landlocked province in the Philippines with a population of about 460,900, is home to some of the biggest vegetable producers in the country. An agricultural region eight hours’ drive from the nation’s capital and known as “the salad bowl of the north”, it supplies most of its vegetables to Manila despite not having an airport of its own. Vegetables travel by trucks daily from the upland green plots to the tables of the capital’s residents. But when the coronavirus pandemic hit... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3149039/hunger-and-debt-hit-covid-19-farmers-philippines-hope-their?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3149039/hunger-and-debt-hit-covid-19-farmers-philippines-hope-their?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 19 Sep 2021 08:45:13 +0000