Jim Snyder

Editor, investigations. RFA

[Jane Tang @ccjanetang]

Beyond the newsroom closure, it’s heartbreaking to see so many of my colleagues—who have dedicated their careers to exposing human rights abuses— now scrambling to find their own voices. Plz share & Watch my colleague's testimony:

[Radio Free Asia @RadioFreeAsia]

@snyd24 (6/6) This is the first of a three-part series on Myanmar’s Kayah State, based on our journalists’ reporting trip to the country. Read the full story here.
https://t.co/qiou2pfnBO

[Radio Free Asia @RadioFreeAsia]

“If we don’t keep fighting, we won’t survive.”

Journalist Vuthy Huot survived a genocide by the Khmer Rouge. As a journalist with @RadioFreeAsiaKH, he tells stories that matter to local people. “The information is not filtered, not controlled, by the government.”

#WeAreRFA

[Radio Free Asia @RadioFreeAsia]

“Living in a place where the government restricts press freedom is like living in the dark.”
Journalist Aye Aye Mon was forced to flee Myanmar after the military coup in 2021. She has risked her life and her freedom to return and report on the civil war and its impact.

#WeAreRFA

[Boer Deng @boerdeng]

Please read this crackerjack story, published today: https://t.co/2PpOPy1PpH

[Jack Adamović Davies @jackoozell]

Why has the Cambodian prime minister's rough-and-ready cousin Hun To been so litigious lately?

Because after decades of owning businesses and property around Melbourne, the Australian government refused to renew his visa in 2022:

https://t.co/gebyBX36UB

[Jim Snyder @snyd24]

Chinese courts go after ‘notorious’ Cambodian conglomerate — Radio Free Asia https://t.co/AkQJ0tJaEM

[Jack Adamović Davies @jackoozell]

For years I've been looking at Cambodia's multibillion-dollar Prince Group conglomerate, trying to find where their money comes from and uncovered serious allegations the answer - at least in part - is crime. Part one of our three-part series on them:
https://t.co/LcM70qEKNX

[Jim Snyder @snyd24]

A young Chinese family struggles for a foothold in the US https://t.co/KuPmUPmDHT

[Jim Snyder @snyd24]

A Tibetan experiment in democracy struggles https://t.co/OvEtd4HZMT

[Radio Free Asia @RadioFreeAsia]

Cambodia 2023: An election in name only https://t.co/Olcp8I9As4

[Boer Deng @boerdeng]

China’s transgender ‘medicine girls’ can’t find the medicine they need — Radio Free Asia https://t.co/kggemhiTXX

[Boer Deng @boerdeng]

This piece is an incredible collaboration between .@RFABurmese and RFA Lao services - an example of the importance and work @RadioFreeAsia can do https://t.co/dI2zsb72nn

[Radio Free Asia @RadioFreeAsia]

A new RFA investigation has revealed a booming and shadowy trade in Cambodian research monkeys, fueled by the coronavirus pandemic and tied to the country’s political elite. https://t.co/P3JbwEV4IJ

[Boer Deng @boerdeng]

I’m glad to see that this subject is getting much more attention - eg in today’s @axios. Here’s our piece from last week on the same harassment being faced by our reporter and others critically covering China:

[Jim Snyder @snyd24]

Whoever is directing this Oscars show shouldn’t be.

[Radio Free Asia @RadioFreeAsia]

Using handmade guns that sometimes backfire in their faces, militia fighters in Myanmar’s Sagaing region battle junta rule.

[Radio Free Asia @RadioFreeAsia]

Photojournalist Myo Htet Hla Thaw says he wants to tell the truth about post-coup Myanmar to the Burmese people and the world. I’ve had “to run through bullets to get footage,” he says.

[Jim Snyder @snyd24]

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