Raul Dancel

Raul Dancel has been in journalism for more than 30 years. He worked for three Philippine newspapers from 1990 to 2003. His coverage of the 1997 Asian financial crisis won him awards from the Philippine Centre for Investigative Journalism and Economic Journalists Association of the Philippines. In 2007, he joined The Straits Times as a sub-editor at the business desk. In 2014, he was posted to Manila as ST’s Philippines correspondent. There, he wrote about typhoons, sea disputes, drug wars and the Covid-19 pandemic.