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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 @humeyra_pamuk: From Ghana to Haiti, to Kenya and Myanmar, Trump’s aid freeze has sparked mayhem globally. It is also the undoing of a d…
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RT @StephenMcDonell: “World’s richest man wants poorest people cut off from crucial aid…” #US #Trump #Musk CLICK ON LINK FOR STORY https:…
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RT @JamesSurowiecki: Ian claims WSJ reporter Katherine Long "is" a USAID employee, while posting a screenshot that makes it clear she worke…
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RT @Shoon_Naing: When she fell ill at home on Saturday night she asked to go back to the hospital, her daughter Yin Yin Aye, 50, told Reute…
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A Burmese refugee who was a patient at a US-funded clinic on the Myanmar-Thai border has died after being discharged when the clinic was forced to close by the Trump administration aid freeze. She was reliant on it for oxygen. By @Shoon_Naing.
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RT @geraldrflynn: 1/ Sad to confirm that I was denied re-entry to #Cambodia on Jan. 5 and, a month later, it's no clearer as to whether I c…
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A young child recovering from heart surgery is in one of the affected facilities. Relatives of patients discharged are "trying to find oxygen tanks" to bring home. The effects of Trump’s aid freeze. Reporting with @panuw, @Shoon_Naing.
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RT @DrFrancesRyan: This column has been the second most read on the whole Guardian site today and it’s all credit to Rosy who literally use…
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RT @John_Hudson: USAID officials called Trump's directives a "shock and awe" approach that has left officials unsure how to apply for exemp…
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RT @AlexandraUlmer: For one Honduran single mom fleeing threats, Trump dashes American dream My dispatch from the border: https://t.co/…
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The graphs in this comprehensive report on surging malaria in #Myanmar are pretty shocking. Life-saving mosquito nets are sitting in warehouses, the report says, because the military wants to prevent them “falling into the wrong hands”. (@newhumanitarian)
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RT @ReutersAsia: WATCH: Myanmar's military has detained food-security researchers and warned aid workers not to release information reveali…
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