Download In his last public act before a year-long religious seclusion, activist priest Father Reyes has thrown his support behind Filipino postal workers.
On May 8 he kickstarted a charity run, where he acted as a postman delivering letters from the workers to Philipine President Aquino.
The letters protested the recent string of jobs cuts for people that have worked for company for decades.
Download Father Edwin Gariguez is famous for facing down multinational miners – and winning.
Now the Philippines priest has a global award to recognise his struggles.
He’s one of six winners of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize in the United States – the award for environmental heroes fighting at the grassroots.
Three years ago, Father Edwin led a hunger strike that turned the tide against a huge nickel mine on Mindoro island.
Philippine Fashion Company Helps Lift People Out of Poverty
Saturday, 07 April 2012 10:00
Simone Orendain Radio Australia
Download A small fashion company in Manila is doing its part to end the cycle of poverty in the Philippines one purse at a time.
Now in its fifth year, "Rags 2 Riches" is poised to make a profit using a formula of social mission, innovation and the necessary discipline of running a successful business.
Simone Orendain from Radio Australia has the report.
Download The Palawan provincial court in the Philippines recently ordered the arrest of former governor Joel Reyes, over the murder of environmentalist and broadcaster Gerardo Ortega.
Ortega was shot on January last year, and died from bullet wounds to his head and body.
Many believe that he was killed because of his strong campaign against mining in Palawan province, described as the Philippine’s last ecological frontier.
To commemorate his struggle, Jofelle Tesorio has this story.
Influential Burmese monk refuses to be silenced: Burma has recently been thrust into the international spotlight. Following the landslide victory of the National League for Democracy in the April by-election and Aung San Suu Kyi finally taking a seat in parliament – Burma is being hailed as Asia’s newest democracy. But the government continues to limit the public, and sometimes political, activities of Burma’s Buddhist monks. Prominent monk Ashin Pyinnyar Thiha is banned from giving any speeches and was recently evicted from his monastery in Rangoon. Citra Dyah Prastuti travels to Hmaw-Bi Township on the outskirts of Rangoon to meet him.
Single Mothers Fight Prejudice in South Korea: In many parts of the world, May is the month for mothers. But in South Korea, there’s also a special day for single mothers, unwed women who raise their children solo. Being a single mom is tough – but in South Korea it brings shame upon the entire family. Many children born out of wedlock are kept secret and adopted overseas. But the adoptees are now returning home to find their birth mothers and are working to curb the prejudice single mothers still face. Jason Strother has the story from Seoul.
