Orlando de Guzman

Some of the world’s leading malaria researchers are working in Thailand, along the country’s borders with Burma and Cambodia, studying the emergence of virulent strains of malaria. Orlando de Guzman reports on why scientists believe malaria is resisting current anti-malaria drugs and what treatments are currently being suggested.

Thailand military’s used to label homosexuals as mentally ill and it banned them from serving in the armed forces, but as Orlando de Guzman reports from Bangkok, Thailand’s ban on gays in the military was quietly lifted a few years back.

Orlando de Guzman reports from Bangkok that Thailand is launching a second ‘war on drugs;’ five years ago the country drew international condemnation when its first anti-drugs campaign resulted in the death of more than two-thousand people.

Many poor families in the Philippines rely heavily on US dollars sent home by Filipinos working overseas, and Orlando De Guzman reports from Manila on how the dollar’s falling value against the Philippine peso is affecting their budgets.

Orlando de Guzman reports from the Sulu Archipelago, a dangerous region in the southern Philippines where rebels with suspected links to al Qaeda are active, and so are US-backed government troops trying to hunt the rebels down