In March 2026, in Malaysia, I worked on rare earth mining - both legal and illegal - and on the consequences of pollution for fishing communities living near the industrial area of Gebeng, in Kuantan, in the state of Pahang. I documented the impact of extractive activities on the coastal environment and local economies, amid contaminated waters and increasingly scarce resources.

During the same period, I reported on the life of the indigenous Semai community, which has lived for generations in close symbiosis with the forest and the Telom River, on which it depends for food, water, and transportation. The village of Pos Lanai is located within the Ulu Jelai Forest Reserve, part of the Central Forest Spine ecological corridor in the state of Pahang, and can only be reached by river. For years, the community has opposed rare earth extraction projects that threaten its ancestral land.

In December 2025, in Tha Thon, in northern Thailand near the border with Myanmar, I documented pollution affecting the Kok River and its consequences for local communities. In recent years, life along the river has changed dramatically: the water is no longer used, fishing has nearly disappeared, and tourism has come to a halt.

In Myanmar’s Shan State, following the 2021 coup, gold and rare earth mines have multiplied in areas lacking effective control. The debris and sediments produced by these activities flow into the tributaries of the Kok River and are carried downstream, turning unregulated mining into a direct source of transboundary pollution.

I then followed the river to Ban Saeo, in the Thai district of Chiang Saen, across from Laos, where the Kok flows into the Mekong. There, I lived with local fishermen to better understand their daily struggles and the changes they are facing.

In November 2025, in Mindanao, in the southern Philippines, my work focused on nickel and gold extraction across the Caraga region and the mining area of Diwalwal, including the concessions of Apex Mining in Davao de Oro. My reportage covers deforestation, slope erosion, and contaminated waters, the new gold rush, the contradictions of the so-called “green transition,” the lives of local communities, and the consequences of climate change. During my stay, Typhoon Fung-wong struck the region, making the environmental impact of extractive activities even more evident.

In June 2025, in Laos, I documented the lives of fishermen along the Mekong River in Bokeo Province, affected by pollution linked to rare earth mining in Myanmar’s Shan State. The tributaries carry heavy metals and arsenic from illegal extraction sites operated by Chinese companies, armed groups, and criminal organizations — with part of the profits directly funding the military junta in power since the 2021 coup.

In March 2025, I produced a reportage inside Myanmar, in the Karenni and Shan States, focusing on opium cultivation and drug trafficking.

In 2024, while in South Korea, I documented the tense situation in the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), a strip of land 250 kilometers long and 4 kilometers wide that has separated the two Koreas since 1953. Despite its name, it is one of the most heavily militarized areas in the world, defended by troops, landmines, and barbed wire on both sides. I interviewed North Korean defectors who shared their daring escape from Kim Jong Un’s country.

I then produced reports on poverty among the homeless in Seoul and Songnam. Of South Korea’s 51 million inhabitants, approximately 7.7 million live below the poverty line, with around 10% of them experiencing extreme poverty and struggling to access essential services such as healthcare and education.

Since 2010, I have been covering the Karen insurgency in eastern Myanmar, an armed conflict waged for over seventy years against the central government. Following the military coup in February 2021, I was among the few reporters to enter the country for more than five months (across several visits), documenting areas controlled by the armed Karen and Karenni ethnic groups, which fight alongside the People’s Defence Force (PDF), the armed wing of the National Unity Government (NUG), the clandestine government formed after the coup.

I documented the exodus of refugees, the training of young people fleeing the cities to take up arms, the wounded caused by the conflict, the tragedy of landmines, and the front lines of the fighting.

On the Philippine island of Mindanao, I documented the advance of Islamic extremism and the dire situation of persecuted Christians. In March 2016, I produced a report with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), one of the country’s largest Muslim armed groups. I also covered the kidnapping of Italian missionary Rolando Del Torchio, who was held hostage for six months by Abu Sayyaf, the Asian branch of the Islamic State.

In August 2017, I was in Marawi, the city besieged by local Islamic State-affiliated groups for nearly five months, documenting the front lines and the plight of civilians forced to flee their homes.

In 2017, in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, I documented the conflict by following pro-Russian militias on the Kominternovo frontline - at a time when the war had little media attention.

In Bangladesh, immediately after the 2016 attack in Dhaka, I was the first Western journalist to enter the site of the massacre, producing an in-depth report on radicalism and on the lives of Christians in the country.

I then visited Kandapara, the second-largest brothel in Bangladesh, a city within a city, where I recounted the stories of some young women forced into prostitution - amid drugs, alcohol, and poverty - since a very early age.

Since 2012, I have produced reports in Thailand on the traditions of ancestral tribes, the occult side of Buddhism (including magical rituals and sacred tattoos), the struggles of HIV/AIDS, the impact of climate change on the Mekong River, and many other topics. I have also worked throughout Southeast Asia, including Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.

In Europe, I have documented nationalist groups in Northern Ireland, Corsica, and Kosovo. In particular, I’ve covered the tense days of the Orange Order parades in Belfast on several occasions, and interviewed both former and current members of the IRA, the Irish Republican Army.

In Belgium, shortly after the Paris attacks in 2015, I reported from Molenbeek, the cradle of jihadism just a short distance from Italy.

Since 2011, I have produced several reports in Lebanon, focusing on Hezbollah and Palestinian refugee camps.