The Philippines’ Queen of Extortion

A funeral parlour in Manila becomes a window into the lives and deaths shaping President Duterte’s ‘war on drugs’.

We investigate why people are risking their lives in an illegal gold industry worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

101 East investigates the corporations that profit from the chaos and misery of disaster-prone Philippines.

The conviction of Rappler editor highlights the pressure on media from President Rodrigo Duterte’s government.