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Marga Ortigas

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Marga Ortigas, based in the Philippines, has been a broadcast journalist for more than 20 years. She's covered stories from across Asia for Al Jazeera - including in South Korea, Laos, China, Japan and the military stand-off between Cambodia and Thailand.

Marga has reported on Southeast Asia's two longest insurgencies extensively, gaining access to both the Muslim separatists and the Communist fighters battling the Philippine government, and the victims trapped within the conflict. She speaks three languages and has a Masters Degree in Literature and Criticism.

Latest posts

Sabah: Children of the Wind

"Anak" was newly-washed and freshly-dressed when we met him. His clothes -- clean, and not ill-fitting. Which wasn't usual by "street" standards.

Marga Ortigas
Asia
Last Modified: 29 Apr 2011 06:13

The Land Below the Wind

Filipino migrants seeking refuge from poverty and civil strife in Malaysia have found life to be as tough on the other side of the water.

Marga Ortigas
Asia
Last Modified: 28 Apr 2011 18:31

Feeling the earth move

"Seeing video of an actual quake makes you think you can imagine what one really feels like," a colleague with us here in Japan said after the 7.1-magnitude quake rocked the northeast coast the other night, "but boy was I wrong!"

Marga Ortigas
Asia
Last Modified: 9 Apr 2011 07:32

Southern Philippines: Echoes of peace

The Muslim struggle for autonomy seemed to reach its peak in the70s when the Moro National Liberation Front, or MNLF, under Nur Misuari signed a peace deal with the Philippine government then led by the late deposed dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

Marga Ortigas
Asia
Last Modified: 11 Feb 2011 15:47

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