Poppy McPherson
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Special Correspondent @Reuters, Southeast Asia. Formerly Yangon, Phnom Penh, London. Part of Pulitzer-winning team, 2019. DMs open for tips, cat pix.
Joined March 2009
Almost 4 years after the military coup, Myanmar is facing a serious food crisis. But warnings of how bad it is - including by the world’s leading hunger monitor - have not been published for fear of junta retaliation. Our piece for @specialreports.
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RT @ReutersWorld: Thai teen says he threw himself out of a window to escape Cambodia’s brutal scam farms https://t.….
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RT @Shoon_Naing: Always proud to be part of this team wining the Human Rights Reporting award @walone4 @poppymcp @DevjyotGhoshal.
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RT @JasonSeashore: Great article by @poppymcp illustrating the dire situation involving transnational #cybercrime/#scam groups. No longer j….
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RT @Reaproy: Front line poets and the #Burma revolution at the @FCCThai on 24 April at 7 pm with @AungNaingSoeAns & @joefree215 - don't mis….
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RT @joefree215: “We learn a lot of poetry at school, all the classical poets. Then, in your teens, you read the revolutionary poets and whe….
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“What we found in the Philippines isn't just disinformation spike – it's digital warfare," said Cyabra's chief executive, Dan Brahmy. Deeply disturbing findings on the increasing dominance of fake accounts in online conversation.
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RT @cape_diamond: #VIDEO: The current post-quake scenario in #Mandalay City, where there is a lot of rain and high winds. There are issues….
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RT @ForeignPolicy: Outside funding has been critical to helping Myanmar’s students and teachers exercise their right to education despite t….
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RT @BBCBreakfast: 'When you are covering a natural disaster one of the things you see on the ground is just masses of rescue teams, which y….
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The U.S. has world class search and rescue teams that could have been deployed to search for survivors of #Myanmar’s devastating earthquake. They weren’t, because Elon Musk and the Trump administration fed USAID “into the wood chipper”.
After a 7.7 magnitude earthquake shook Myanmar, international rescuers rushed into the devastated country. The most ubiquitous among them have been Chinese relief workers, whose blue and orange uniforms appear across videos circulating on social media
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A functional USAID would have activated urban search-and-rescue teams that were capable of being deployed to Myanmar in 48 hours, said Marcia Wong, formerly a top official at USAID. “We have created a vacuum which can allow other actors to step in.”.
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RT @elimeixler: Meanwhile quite a line here: while Mandalay residents are digging survivors out of the rubble with their bare hands, the mi….
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