Mong Palatino

Manila

Regional Editor, Southeast Asia at Global Voices

Activist. Asia-Pacific blogger. BAYAN, IFEX, Global Voices, Bulatlat, The Diplomat. Legislator (14th-15th Congress). Kabataan Partylist founder. Tweets my own

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Threatened by transnational repression, Hong Kong exile media outlets aim to preserve press freedom

1 day ago | globalvoices.org | Oiwan Lam |Mong Palatino |Adesewa Olofinko

The crackdown on press freedom since the enactment of the National Security Law (NSL) in Hong Kong in 2020 has led to an exodus of hundreds of media workers. Many have established independent media outlets overseas to report on politically sensitive news and connect the scattered diaspora communities. While these exile media outlets have the freedom to amplify critical voices, they are still threatened by transnational political harassment.
Disunity Within the Philippines’ First Family

1 day ago | thediplomat.com | Mong Palatino

Senator Imee Marcos, the brother of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., has thrown in her lot with his great rivals: the Dutertes.
Thailand-based US scholar faces prison term and deportation for alleged royal insult and cybercrime violations

3 days ago | globalvoices.org | Mong Palatino |Adesewa Olofinko |Zhaoyin Feng |Hasya Nindita

American scholar Paul Wesley Chambers is facing prosecution in Thailand for allegedly insulting the monarchy and violating the country's cybercrime laws. Academics and human rights advocates widely condemned his indictment and warned against the continued weaponization of laws to stifle critical views. Chambers, who has been living in Thailand for three decades, is a faculty member of Naresuan University, where he lectures on civil-military relations in Southeast Asia.
Thailand-based US scholar faces prison term and deportation for alleged royal insult and cybercrime violations

3 days ago | flipboard.com | Mong Palatino

13 hours agoHow to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US BorderCustoms and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States.
China is using cobalt from the DRC to power the green energy transition. But at what cost?

1 week ago | globalvoices.org | Jean de Dieu SOVON |Vivian Wu |Filip Noubel |Mong Palatino

This article was submitted as part of the Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from Sinophone and Global Majority countries to investigate the effects of Chinese development projects abroad. Find more stories here. When Chinese President Xi Jinping stood before African leaders at the 2024 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing in September and promised a greener, more sustainable future, the applause was loud.
Max Romeo, an urgent musical voice in Jamaica’s turbulent 1970s, passes away at 80 · Global Voices

1 week ago | globalvoices.org | Emma Lewis |Janine Mendes-Franco |Mong Palatino |Mohamed Mohamud

Roots reggae artist Max Romeo, known for his uncompromising lyrics, died on the evening of April 11 at a private hospital in St. Andrew, Jamaica, due to complications from heart disease. He was 80 years old. His family shared on Instagram:Born Maxwell Livingston Smith (also known as “Maxie Smith”) on November 22, 1944, in Saint D’Acre, a small country town near Alexandria in the hills of St. Ann, Jamaica, Romeo left home at the age of 14.
How anti-war Russians end up in US immigration prisons

1 week ago | globalvoices.org | Malka Older |Daria Dergacheva |Mong Palatino |Mohamed Mohamud

This article was originally published in Russian on March 25, 2025, on Baikal People. Global Voices translated the article, edited it for clarity, and is republishing it with permission. People's names have been changed for safety. In the spring of 2024, US authorities began sending Russians who crossed the US–Mexico border to request political asylum into detention centers en masse.
Song directed at President Bola Tinubu’s son banned in Nigeria · Global Voices

1 week ago | globalvoices.org | Pamela Ephraim |Mohamed Mohamud |Mong Palatino |Filip Noubel

On April 9, Nigeria’s National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) barred radio and television stations in the country from airing a new trending song, “Tell Your Papa,” by rapper Eedris Abdulkareem, citing its “objectionable nature.” The Afrobeat song, which was released on April 6, has its lyrics in Nigerian Pidgin English and Yoruba and is directed at Seyi Tinubu, the son of President Bola Tinubu, calling on him to “tell his papa” of the worsening socio-economic conditions in Nigeria and also...
Censored modern Chinese history resurfaces in online archive: Interview with China historian Ian Johnson

1 week ago | globalvoices.org | Filip Noubel |Mong Palatino |Sonia Awale |Qian Sun

Chinese president Xi Jinping has declared a monopoly on narratives not only about today's China but also about its ancient and more recent past. In that process, any diverging narrative or piece of historical testimony that could contradict the grand official narrative is erased and censored. Yet, historical memory has managed to survive in Chinese society to this day.
Vanuatu prime minister criticizes post-earthquake documentary for peddling alleged ‘foreign media bias’

1 week ago | globalvoices.org | Mong Palatino |Kevin Rennie |Sonia Awale |Qian Sun

The prime minister of Vanuatu, Jotham Napat, expressed dismay over an Australian documentary that discussed Chinese-funded buildings which were damaged during the December 2024 earthquake. The prime minister criticized the reporters’ “bias,” but a global media watchdog warned that the leader’s remarks could undermine critical reporting. Vanuatu is a south Pacific island nation with a population of more than 300,000.

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22 Apr 25

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Articles

Threatened by transnational repression, Hong Kong exile media outlets aim to preserve press freedom

Disunity Within the Philippines’ First Family

Thailand-based US scholar faces prison term and deportation for alleged royal insult and cybercrime violations

Thailand-based US scholar faces prison term and deportation for alleged royal insult and cybercrime violations

China is using cobalt from the DRC to power the green energy transition. But at what cost?

Max Romeo, an urgent musical voice in Jamaica’s turbulent 1970s, passes away at 80 · Global Voices

How anti-war Russians end up in US immigration prisons

Song directed at President Bola Tinubu’s son banned in Nigeria · Global Voices

Censored modern Chinese history resurfaces in online archive: Interview with China historian Ian Johnson

Vanuatu prime minister criticizes post-earthquake documentary for peddling alleged ‘foreign media bias’

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