Hannah Beech
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Wandering Asia. Senior Asia correspondent for @nytimes. Noodles over rice. 毕菡娜, ビーチ花.
Joined February 2014
When a 2,000-pound bomb detonates, it creates a blastwave that can harm people up to 3,000 feet away. Our Visual Investigation suggests Israel routinely dropped this bomb in the area south of Wadi Gaza - the place it had repeatedly told civilians in Gaza to move to for safety.
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A Thai farm worker survived nearly 50 days as a hostage in Gaza with an unlikely companion: a 5-year-old Israeli girl. She prayed each day that her abducted boyfriend would make it, too.
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A Thai farmworker clung to hope during her nearly 50 days of captivity in Gaza by befriending a young Israeli girl and dreaming of reuniting with her boyfriend, who had also been abducted.
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In Hong Kong, a government crackdown on neon signs stems from safety and environmental concerns, but the campaign evokes the fading of the city itself.
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A government crackdown on neon signs stems from safety and environmental concerns, but the campaign evokes the fading of the city itself.
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Vietnam is preparing to announce how it will spend $15.5 bln in climate funding from a group of nine rich nations at COP28 but it has also ramped up a crackdown on environmentalists.
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The government is preparing to present its energy transition plan at the U.N. climate talks as it intensifies a crackdown on environmental advocates.
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A story months in the making with @_tom_wilson_. We followed the money trail of pig-butchering scams, the billion-dollar criminal industry robbing people across the world. It led to a Chinese national in Thailand with powerful friends among the elite. https://t.co/JxpjjXkHbb
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Fraudulent crypto investment schemes directed from Asia known as “pig butchering” have become a global billion-dollar industry. But little is known about those who benefit. Reuters traced at least $9...
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Our story here:
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How China strong-armed its way into dominating the South China Sea.
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Chinese Coast Guard and maritime militia vessels in the South China Sea created some intriguing water calligraphy this year, off the coast of Vietnam. 中国的中?
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For 'social harmony' TikTok is banned in Nepal
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The small Himalayan nation’s cabinet of ministers said the Chinese-owned app had neglected its repeated requests to curb content that affected “social harmony.”
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“They don’t even know how to pronounce Myanmar,” said Ms. Aye Chan Mon, about the reception she often receives in Washington. “They think it’s Yemen.” Fighting to Govern Myanmar, From a Teeny Office in Washington by @hkbeech
https://t.co/H1K6pUboks
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The National Unity Government of Myanmar, formed as an alternative to the junta that orchestrated a 2021 coup, has to battle global apathy and ignorance as it struggles for recognition.
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“They don’t even know how to pronounce Myanmar,” said a member of Myanmar’s pro-democracy shadow government, about the reception she often receives in Washington as she seeks to draw more attention to the country’s plight.
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Thousands of Vietnamese refugees in Texas rebuilt their lives as shrimpers. But the decline of the industry in America is forcing them to consider other options. https://t.co/cqc9KQFtls
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An alliance of rebel forces in Myanmar has taken several key towns from the country’s military regime, the most successful challenge to the junta that seized power in a coup and the latest evidence of how overstretched the military has become.
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An offensive by an alliance of armed ethnic groups based in the north has seized key towns, galvanized groups elsewhere and spotlighted the military’s weakness.
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I have had the pleasure of disagreeing with @KaiserKuo on China issues for some 20 years, including as a regular on the early Sinica podcast. The closure of his and @goldkorn’s China Project is a real loss, and this candid thread is useful for grasping the challenges they faced
A thread 🧵: I’m overwhelmed by the words of support that have come pouring in since our announcement yesterday that we’re shutting down The China Project. My sincere thanks to everyone who’s reached out directly or here. A few things to clarify: 1/x
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NEW: A letter obtained by @nytimes shows the State Dept. has approved a $320 million sale of bomb equipment to Israel. The buyer is Rafael, the big arms maker owned by the Israeli defense ministry. The seller is Bethesda-based Rafael USA. Our story:
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Israel has been using the kits during its bombing campaign in Gaza.
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The tragedy of Israel and Gaza extends halfway across the world, to a place where families await word of dozens of missing loved ones.
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Dozens of farm workers from Thailand were kidnapped or killed in the raids on Israel, and relatives want answers. “We have nothing to do with their war,” one said.
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"China's Age of Malaise" -- outstanding New Yorker piece on the state of Xi's China. A sort of sequel by @eosnos to his book "Age of Ambition"
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Party officials are vanishing, young workers are “lying flat,” and entrepreneurs are fleeing the country. What does China’s inner turmoil mean for the world?
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More than 900 miles from the Chinese mainland, in an area of the South China Sea that an international tribunal has unequivocally determined does not belong to China, cellphones pinged with a message: “Welcome to China.” - @hkbeech at Mischief Reef
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The world’s most brazen maritime militarization is gaining muscle in waters through which one-third of global ocean trade passes.
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The U.S. and China are taking bold steps in the espionage shadow war to try to collect intelligence on leadership thinking and military capabilities.
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The nations are taking bold steps in the espionage shadow war to try to collect intelligence on leadership thinking and military capabilities.
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TREAD: 1/9 Pleased to share my latest article on China’s colonial-style boarding schools for Tibetan students co-authored with the wonderfully talented and affable Tibetan scholar @tendor.
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Like other colonial state structures, the education system in China aims to manufacture regime loyalty and cultural conformity among its 125 million minority nationalities. The Party-state's lesson...
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A beautiful review of @TahirIzgil (tr: @jlfreeman6)'s powerful new memoir of the Uyghur genocide (out today) - by @BarbaraDemick in @nyt:
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In his memoir, “Waiting to Be Arrested at Night,” the poet Tahir Hamut Izgil evokes the fear and danger of daily life for a Chinese ethnic minority that has been the target of a brutal crackdown.
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