"Worst-case scenario". Some 300 residents were evacuated; cows were airlifted by helicopter. I first reported about how the warming climate is making mountains less stable back in 2019 when I traveled across Switzerland with @tcristofoletti.bsky.social

Trumpism is Maoism… look at this dictator Badge from US officer now

Prior to the earthquake, Myanmar was already facing a humanitarian crisis as a result of the junta's aid blockages & economic collapse which has left millions of people at risk of starvation and half the population in poverty. Now it's even worse. www.bbc.com/news/live/c4...

www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/deli... #myanmarearthquake #burma

Gwen Robinson (1960-2025) “Badass” comes to mind when I think about her. Fiercely passionate w/ a career spanning decades across the region. A friend of many here in Bangkok; an inspiration to many more younger colleagues crossing paths with her. Rest in Power, @robinsonbkk.bsky.social

The US backed Israel committed the largest child massacre in a single day last week, killing over 200 children. In addition it killed 100 women and at least 200 men. This was done with US bombs and the blessing of the US government. No widespread media coverage or global condemnation.

Yep

Such a generosity.... #singapore has bever been a major development aid donor country in spite of his riches. If I remember correctly sing$500,000 was a record during Tsunami

Reporting by @spiegel.de has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including mobile phone numbers, is freely accessible on the internet.

now it makes sense

Israel has blown up Gaza's only specialised cancer treatment hospital, the Turkish-Palestinian Hospital, along with an adjacent medical school, drawing condemnation for yet again targeting a medical facility ⤵️ aje.io/wpl2e4

Just six years ago, Gabbard was slamming Donald Trump for helping the Saudis to bomb Yemen in what she called a "genocide" and said we "need a new president." Today, she works *for* Donald Trump and is defending Trump's direct attacks on Yemen and his killing of innocent people.

Israel just killed hundreds of Palestinians, including kids. The US just killed dozens of Yemenis, including kids. "Why do they hate us?" asks the American public, blissfully ignorant of what's being done in its name in the Middle East by the US and its ally Israel. Sigh.

Cambodia’s Hun Sen, Myanmar Junta Celebrate Closure of US-Funded Media Outlets

🎥WATCH: A Thai govt delegation is heading to Xinjiang, China to follow-up on 40 Uyghurs it deported last month. Here's my @channelnewsasia.bsky.social report on that trip, the international fallout and we're also examining the Thai govt's justification of that deportation.

Thai lawmakers voted down an opposition bill seeking to transfer corruption cases against military officers to a civilian court. Once again, a clear signal by the powers that be that any attempt at civilian oversight of military affairs in this country is unwelcome.

The word ‘pathetic’ doesn’t even begin to describe this.

When I reported from the Thai-Myanmar border years ago, I met with local journalists broadcasting news in Myanmar. RFA and the VoA supported these efforts and were among the few alternative news sources. The Trump administration's funding cuts would affect hundreds of millions in the region.

At least 274 Kenyan workers, mostly women, have died in Saudi Arabia in the past five years. Autopsy reports describe evidence of trauma, including burns and electric shocks. An untold number of Ugandans have died, too, but their government releases no data. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/w...

Voice of America channels across the globe go music-only after director says "virtually the entire staff" was placed on leave by Trump administration: cnn.it/4irpORh

RFA and VOA eliminated by Trump administration in a big win for dictators and transnational criminal gangs across Asia in particular. www.rfa.org/english/chin...

Ten years ago if you had written a dystopian SF story in which the person in charge of U.S. public health did a press event at a fast food joint to say that fried food is good but measles vaccines cause measles the ghost of Philip K. Dick would have said that you were being too bleak and unrealistic

Flashback:

A USAID official told employees to clear safes holding classified documents and personnel files by shredding the papers or putting them into bags for burning, according to an email sent to the staff.

MUSK: A sophisticated cyberattack from Ukraine took out Twitter's servers REALITY: Twitter's servers were not secured properly and were publicly visible Great explainer here from @lhn.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/x-ddos...

one of the things i truly believe is that a significant portion of this country is in the grip of a death cult

SCOOP—Emails obtained by Prem Thakker and Zeteo show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him. He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving. He even wrote he feared ICE "might come to my home."

The White House, not even DHS, the White House itself apparently, is directly deciding which permanent residents should be detained and deported based on their political speech. If this doesn’t scare you about the state of our democracy and liberties, I don’t know what will.

Huione Pay, the banking arm of what’s been called the world’s “largest ever illicit online marketplace,” has been stripped of its banking license, the National Bank of Cambodia confirmed to RFA this week.

An Israeli social media trend shows people prank-calling family members, pretending to seek donations for Palestinian children, to mock their suffering in Gaza.

The Trump administration is no longer demonstrating concern with its own purported human rights priorities, and Thailand knows it.

BREAKING: Israel’s FM Gideon Sa’ar says the government is prepared to move to stage two of the ceasefire agreement, which includes Israel’s full withdrawal from Gaza and the release of all live captives. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/zpvlam

Interesting that Musk shows more respect, in terms of his dressing, when he is with the Chinese government than with the American government, but MAGA doesn’t care.

"No Other Land," the Palestinian-Israeli made film showing the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers, just won the Oscar for Best Documentary. It can't get a distributor in the US. Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.

A member of Russia’s state-owned news agency gained access to the Oval Office for President Trump’s sit-down with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky – even as the AP and Reuters were barred from the high-level meeting.

"But no matter how disgusted anyone might be at Trump and Vance’s behavior, the strategic reality is that this meeting is a catastrophe for the United States and the free world.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

What a joke this country has become. Far right Trump flatterers cosplaying as journalists in the Oval Office. Rubio sitting there rightly looking embarrassed.

Tesla lost enough value today that it could have fully funded USAID for a year.

Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

Opposition MP and fmr UNHRC and NSC employee Kannavee Suebsang slams Def Min Phumtham’s claims as “lies”, saying that Turkey was ready to resettle more Uyghurs but was blocked by the Yingluck govt and “2 more countries” were also ready to take them in. Source: www.facebook.com/share/p/15yi...

Happy to share this doc I shot for @mongabay.bsky.social with Chidapha Srai, exploring the lives of Thailand’s last sea nomads and their struggle to preserve their traditions in a changing world. Forced to settle on land, some have found an unlikely new livelihood—collecting ocean-bound plastic. 🌊♻️

The raid in the Cambodian border town of Poipet follows Bangkok's crackdown on scamming operations along the Thailand-Myanmar border.

We could not shy away from such an important issue #funding #developmentaid #usaid #rightistgovernments #southeastasia. And take a look at my article too published in 2023, but more relevant than ever at www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

Cambodia’s Stolen Statues Return to an Overcrowded Museum Foreign institutions and collectors are repatriating artifacts of deep spiritual significance to Cambodians, but questions remain about where and how to display them properly. My latest 📸 for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

BREAKING: Zelensky accuses Trump of living in a "disinformation space," a day after the US president falsely accused Ukraine of starting the war with Russia