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Covid-19 hits rural India While India’s cities are on the mend from the latest Covid-19 wave, the deadly virus is coursing through the vast rural hinterland. Over 60 per cent of the new cases are now surfacing in the villages. India Correspondent Debarshi Dasgupta was in Uttar Pradesh, one of India's least developed states, where villagers spoke of their fears as the virus rampaged across their neighbourhoods amid poor testing levels and lax Covid-appropriate behaviour.  Down south in Karnataka, India Correspondent Rohini Mohan reports on a healthcare system that is buckling under rising c...

Read more:  Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore cancelled The Shangri-La Dialogue scheduled for June 4 to 5 in Singapore has been cancelled due to the deteriorating global Covid-19 situation, organisers announced. The International Institute for Strategic Studies said it would plan for the return of the full in-person security summit next year. United States Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin had earlier said he would attend the dialogue, which was to be held at the Shangri-La Hotel, while Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga had been invited as keynote speaker.  Read more: Indian official slamm...

Spotlight on child abuse in the Philippines Filipino outreach worker Erick Reyes was only five years old when he encountered sexual abuse. Life at home was also filled with violence, he tells Philippines correspondent Raul Dancel. Children in the Philippines are particularly vulnerable to sexual abuse and domestic violence. One in four Filipino children are sexually abused, a national study has shown. Listen to the podcast here, and watch the poignant video on YouTube.  In the finale of our Invisible Asia series next week, we cast the spotlight on South Korea’s Muslim minority. Look out fo...

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China tests Biden with South China Sea tactic Is China testing America's commitment to its allies in the region? That's one thought being debated as a possible explanation for the presence of several Chinese fishing boats in a disputed reef in the South China Sea. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on March 22 that the boats were simply "taking shelter from the wind" and the Philippines should view the situation in a "rational light". But Manila has been getting tense about the issue and has been referring to the stationed fleet as "maritime militia". Meanwhile, in another...