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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.

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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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‘Nearly 3 weeks in… life-saving programs… remain shut as humanitarian workers struggle to secure U.S. government waivers meant to keep them open, dozens of aid workers and U.N. staff told Reuters.’ Reporting with colleagues across the globe.
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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 @poppymcp: A Burmese refugee who was a patient at a US-funded clinic on the Myanmar-Thai border has died after being discharged when the…
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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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‘Field hospitals in Thai refugee camps, landmine clearance in war zones, and drugs to treat millions suffering from diseases such as HIV are among the programs facing the chop as President Donald Trump contemplates massive cuts to U.S. foreign aid.’
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RT @BBCWorld: In a split second, Russia wipes out three generations of a Ukrainian family
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RT @panuw: Detained tycoon She Zhijiang, who says he spied for China, alleges abuse in Thai jail
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New from me & @panuw: China-born She Zhijiang, who has Cambodian citizenship, has suffered violence that has left him unable to stand and has received unwanted visits from Chinese officials, lawyers said. This comes after he said he spied for Beijing.
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'The U.S. military has moved its Typhon launchers - which can fire multipurpose missiles up to thousands of kilometres - from Laoag airfield in the Philippines to another location on the island of Luzon, a senior Philippine government source said.'
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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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After a Chinese actor was kidnapped by scam gangs in #Myanmar, hundreds of families began speaking out about their missing relatives and, in some cases, the lack of action taken by Chinese authorities. @Reuters spoke to some of them.
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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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