BOHOL, Philippines — Nothing beats dynamite fishing for sheer efficiency. A fisherman in this scattering of islands in the central Philippines balanced on a narrow outrigger boat and launched a bottle ...

Photographs Story It’s around 10 a.m. each morning that Noemi Reyes’s heart fills with hope. That’s when her husband Marionito’s boat appears on the shimmering horizon of the Pacific. By the time his ...

A massive shipping vessel — capable of removing 10–20 per cent of an area's fish standing stock — was found fishing illegally in one of the Philippines' protected marine parks. Apo Reef, the ...

Simplicio Calicoy was celebrating his birthday outside his daughter’s home on Maliwaliw Island in the Philippines when strong winds started to whip around them. The fisherman and his family rushed ...

A new layer of maps for Google Earth was made available, called the Black Marble: a composite view of Earth’s lights taken by a Suomi National Polar Orbiting (SNPO) Satellite from 824 km above. The ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan. You ...

Yesterday, the Philippine Navy vowed it would protect Filipino fishermen during the annual fishing ban that China has imposed in the contested South China Sea, including in areas lying within Manila’s ...

New findings from sites in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Timor-Leste challenge the notion that technological advancements during the Paleolithic age were exclusive to Europe and Africa. Many of the ...