Some will have already heard this news, but the @MekongReview has shut down. In a special Vietnam Weekly edition, I spoke to founder Minh Bui Jones about the publication's legacy and his decision to stop. https://t.co/G1uI2MXXEs
"Dear Hong Kong government, why are you being so unfair to us?" - Rare letter-to-the-editor by a domestic worker in today's SCMP. The city's estimated 340'000 migrant domestic workers are excluded from the 10'000 HK dollars (=1275 USD) covid consumption voucher scheme.
In my interview with @goldkorn for @supchinanews, I mentioned a recent legal commentary by Prof. Zhao Hong of the China University of Politics and Law. Here is her brand new piece, along similar lines, just published: https://t.co/MkzCjgPgrt
Flight data indicates someone in the cockpit intentionally crashed a China Eastern jet in March, killing 132 people, say people familiar with an early U.S. review https://t.co/WNzxTcX1YX
I've seen this trend repeatedly in Chinese public reacting to public disasters and public health events: WeChat groups and shared docs have become the go-to tech tools for people to share information and pool resources. @jx_leee and my latest: https://t.co/XKer1IsAF9
this story about the rise of J&T for @KrASIAofficial was picked up by @NikkeiAsia lately. @khamilamulia and I traced the roots of this unexpected newcomer and unpacked its fast expansion:
Six months ago, Myanmar endured a catastrophe as its health system was overwhelmed with seriously ill COVID-19 patients. A Frontier investigation finds that the true death toll may be in the hundreds of thousands, as most were never counted.
https://t.co/rrXsZehySE
This story took me twenty years to write: the US tried to bring democracy to Afghanistan—-but the war continued so long that Afghan democracy was no longer the issue. American democracy was. @NPR
https://t.co/oakm3KyoUF