None of the residents we have interviewed so far say they have received any help from #Myanmar’s military junta. Instead, #earthquake survivors are digging through rubble with their bare hands. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

New from me & Mikhail Flores - Several Chinese men charged with spying in the Philippines led Chinese Communist Party-affiliated groups that met frequently with the Chinese defense attache & made large donations to a city and two police forces. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Along the many aid programs forced to close across the world because of the U.S freeze, according to a new survey: life saving health centres for malnourished children. Report with @stecklow.bsky.social and Giulia Paravicini. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

After President Trump's administration froze donations in January to Cambodia's largest demining organization, which works to clear the countryside of deadly remnants of Washington's past wars in Southeast Asia, the group announced new funding — from China reut.rs/4jQoHMu

Beijing understands the power of “people to people networks”. That’s what the boss of a demining organization in Cambodia told me after their funding was frozen in the U.S foreign aid shutdown. Then he announced a new $4.4 million pledge - from China. www.reuters.com/world/us-aid...

After President Donald Trump's administration froze donations in January to Cambodia's largest demining organization, which works to clear the countryside of deadly remnants of Washington's past wars in Southeast Asia, the group announced new funding - from China. www.reuters.com/world/us-aid...

“It is not hype or conjecture or hand wringing or even contested use of stats to say that hundreds of thousands of malnourished children could die without USAID." A comprehensive, urgent report on the global consequences of cutting off US aid. www.reuters.com/world/halt-u...

Exclusive: President Trump's nominee as Air Force Secretary, currently a top official at the national spy satellite agency, arranged a multibillion-dollar contract solicitation in a way that favored Elon Musk's SpaceX, according to seven people familiar with the contract reut.rs/4b7MUKt

Pe Kha Lau had been hospitalised for three years and dependent on a supply of oxygen. When she fell ill at home she asked to go back to the hospital, her daughter Yin Yin Aye, 50, told Reuters through tears. “I had to tell her that there is no hospital.” www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

The Trump administration’s effort to slash and reshape American foreign aid is crippling the intricate global system that aims to prevent and respond to famine reut.rs/4jRBDBV

A jailed gambling tycoon fighting extradition to China received 'inhumane treatment' in a Thai prison after saying he was a Chinese spy, his lawyers have told Interpol, saying they fear for his life reut.rs/3EadLZI

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 in an Al Jazeera documentary that he spied for Beijing. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

“At first I wanted to file a police report, but they said missing persons reports were only for women and children.” After a Chinese actor was kidnapped in Myanmar by scam gangs, hundreds of other families began cautiously speaking out about their own relatives. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

“The visa-free policy has increased transnational crime, partly from Chinese criminals who use Thailand as a base. “We are becoming a hub for criminal activity ... and it is impacting national security and tourism.” www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

I continue to be deeply moved by this statement to the heavens by President Carter.

Last story of 2024 - a @reuters.com team of reporters on the effort by Myanmar’s junta to cover up increasingly desperate hunger. The military warned against the release of research detailing the crisis, which has been driven by conflict and its own policies. www.reuters.com/investigates...