Conversations Home About Us Themes Interviews Conversations Editions Contact Us Home About Us Themes Interviews Conversations Editions Contact Us Search result All CategoriesASEAN Identity and Community BuildingChildrenCivil serviceCultureDisasterEducationEnvironmentGenderHealth and COVID-19Labour and Future of WorkPoverty AlleviationRural DevelopmentSocial ProtectionSportsYouth Conversations List All CategoriesASEAN Identity and Community BuildingChildrenCultureDisasterEducationEnvironmentGenderHealth and COVID-19Labour and Future of WorkPoverty AlleviationSocial ProtectionSportsYouth 28 Jun 2023 Labour and Future of Work From Migrant Worker to Entrepreneur: A Success Story Richard Regaspi was a migrant worker in the United Arab Emirates for 13 years before the COVID-19 pandemic hastened his return to the Philippines. It was a tough transition, but the move back allowed Richard and his wife to grow their young business an 28 Jun 2023 Labour and Future of Work One Dream, Separate Lives: How Migrant Families Cope In the Philippines, there are almost 1.8 million registered migrant workers, more commonly called OFWs or Overseas Filipino Workers. The country is one of the world’s largest sources of migrant labour. At its international airports, scenes of tearful g 22 May 2023 Gender Shiela May Pansoy Shiela May Pansoy, a 39-year-old native of Davao del Sur, is one of the 37,000 women in the Philippine police force. 19 May 2023 Gender Shinta Puspa Dewi One night in 2019, Shinta Puspa Dewi found herself hiding under the bed as her patient yelled, “Hide, or they will shoot you!”. Her patient, who has dementia, believed they were in the middle of a war. 19 May 2023 Gender Tra My Nguyen Tra My Nguyen was a model student all her life, but felt unfulfilled even after landing what she thought was her dream job: an engineer in advanced materials. It did not take long for Tra My to realise she did not want to spend the rest of her life sur 19 May 2023 Gender Nwat Derli Zaw Shwegyin Town in Bago District, Myanmar, is reputed to be one of the country’s best places to get gold. The town lives up to its name, “Shwegyin,” which means “making gold” in English. However, the precious mineral is not what keeps bringing 27-year-ol Previous123...14Next