Michael Beltran

Miami

Host at Pan Con Podcast

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Articles

Taiwan’s chip plants run on migrant workers. Job brokers run their lives

1 week ago | restofworld.org | Michael Beltran |Hsiuwen Liu |Gayathri Vaidyanathan

(This is the first of a two-part series on migrant workers in Taiwan’s semiconductor industry. The second story publishes next week.)A group of migrant tech workers from the Philippines sat for lunch at their shelter in the Taiwanese city of Taichung, and thanked God for the food and asked for protection from bad brokers.
Taiwan: Migrants employed in chip manufacturing to meet surging AI demand allege exploitation by brokers profiting from their recruitment; incl. cos. comments - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

1 week ago | business-humanrights.org | Michael Beltran |Hsiuwen Liu

“Taiwan’s chip plants run on migrant workers.
Viral Mount Pinatubo standoff spotlights decades of Indigenous exclusion in the Philippines

3 weeks ago | eco-business.com | Michael Beltran

Avid hiker Maria and her boyfriend were among the dozens of travellers who booked a tour of the Philippines’ Mount Pinatubo for April 18. Pinatubo, an active volcano, had its last major eruption in 1991, altering the surrounding landscape and producing a scenic crater lake that has since become popular with hikers and travellers. At Pinatubo’s jump-off point, more than a dozen vehicles packed with tourists, including Maria and her boyfriend, were suddenly blocked by a crowd of locals.
Viral standoff at Philippines’ Mt. Pinatubo exposes decades of Indigenous exclusion

4 weeks ago | news.mongabay.com | Michael Beltran

On April 18, Indigenous Aeta protesters blockaded the trail to the Philippines’ Mount Pinatubo, a popular tourist attraction in an area recognized as Aeta ancestral land. Aeta leaders say their communities have been deprived of their rightful share of tourism revenues. While businesses and tours catering to travelers have flourished and the local government collects fees, Indigenous locals are engaged as freelance guides for less than minimum wage.
‘A Beacon of Strength’

1 month ago | commonwealmagazine.org | Michael Beltran

Catholics in the Philippines, Southeast Asia’s most Catholic nation, mourn Pope Francis with a special fervor. Pictures of the late pontiff hang on the walls of chapels and cathedrals throughout the archipelago, with families at home glued to live feeds from the Vatican. Churches here have been full since news of Francis’s passing broke on Easter Monday.
2024 Impact Report — Rest of World

1 month ago | restofworld.org | Damilare Dosunmu |Lam Le |Michael Beltran |worse.By Michael Beltran

Message from our Founder & Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Anup Kaphle Editor-in-ChiefSophie Schmidt Founder & Publisher Dear readers:2024 was a year of acceleration, disruption, and reinvention. From the rapid deployment of AI tools to the evolution of electric and autonomous vehicles, technology surged ahead — often outpacing regulation, governance, and even (occasionally) our collective understanding of its consequences. At the same time, global fault lines deepened.
Filipino tech workers demand protections in AI bill after Rest of World report

Jan 28, 2025 | msn.com | Michael Beltran

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Filipino tech workers demand protections in AI bill after Rest of World report

Jan 28, 2025 | restofworld.org | Michael Beltran

Filipino digital workers launched a coalition to lobby for labor and free speech protections in the workplace as artificial intelligence is deployed. The AI tools raise new risks, and the firing of a worker who spoke to Rest of World in November signals an industrywide “code of silence” around the impact of AI on the workplace, the group said.
Labor x Tech Reporting Network

Jan 17, 2025 | restofworld.org | Michael Beltran

Technology is radically changing the meaning of labor and the lives of workers. Throughout 2025, reporters from 10 countries will document the shifts underway and explore the forces behind the transformation. This reporting is supported by a grant from the Henry Ford Foundation.
‘It’s like we’ve become robots’: AI is increasing work, stress at call centres in the Philippines

Dec 30, 2024 | scroll.in | Michael Beltran

This article was originally published in Rest of World, which covers technology’s impact outside the West. “Thank you for calling. … You’re speaking with Renzo. This call may be recorded for – uhm – this call may be re – ” Renzo Bahala, a customer service agent for a US credit card company, breaks his monologue. If he were at work, he would’ve earned a demerit. “I have to say it straight.