https://www.scmp.com/rss/516848/feed Shirin Bhandari is an independent writer, photographer and documentary filmmaker based in Manila, Philippines. Her work has been featured on Pulitzer Center, CNN, VICE, and the Tribeca Film Institute. She is a Logan Nonfiction Fellow for the Carey Institute of Global Good and a member of Women Photograph. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center “Kaya pa, I can still do it,” Rony smiles as he looks down the barrel of his spear gun. A split second later, the sharp end pierces the wooden plank set against a mango tree as a target outside his home on the northern Philippine island of San Salvador, in Zambales province. Rony Drio has been spearfishing since he was a teenager and, like most men in San Salvador, is an expert underwater marksman with the handmade weapon that is one of the oldest... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3237108/philippine-fishermen-netted-south-china-sea-geopolitics-over-scarborough-shoal-were-always-being?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3237108/philippine-fishermen-netted-south-china-sea-geopolitics-over-scarborough-shoal-were-always-being?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 07 Oct 2023 01:30:18 +0000