After reporting on the treatment of refugees in Rwanda - “Airline staff said Rwandan authorities had emailed the airline two hours before with my name, specifically saying not to let me on” Sally Hayden

Love these street vendors in #Shanghai . Still see many out and about - mostly at night but a few tucked into quiet corners in the day too.

Who to believe. David and his camera, or some ex-TEFL teacher proofreaders at state media, who visit on scripted tours run by CPC 🤔

An important report issued by FCC China. The harassment of foreign journalists and their local staff continues to rise. If China wants a good story to be told, they need to let the journalists do their jobs. Harassment only creates a new story line — oftentimes negative.

India’s Modi urges peace at China border bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

Ukraine Russia war: BBC Russian journalist Ilya Barabanov branded 'foreign agent' bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

Scoop from Fu Beimeng📹📍🇲🇽 and me: Eight Chinese migrants trying to reach the US were found dead on a Mexican beach. We find out more about their identities, why they went on the fatal boat journey and the human trafficking operations allegedly aided by local Chinese restaurant owners

Advice of the day. She’s right, you’ll only get into a long conversation and work down until you accept - same with people trying to sell you things you don’t want or need…

A Hong Kong man charged with insulting the Chinese national anthem at a volleyball match sang the pro-democracy song Do You Hear the People Sing while the anthem was being played, a court has heard. hongkongfp.com/2024/04/11/hon…

#BREAKING A representative of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has been deported from Hong Kong on arrival to the territory to monitor the landmark trial of publisher Jimmy Lai, the international press freedom concern group said in a statement.

rsf.org/s/94297

Video shows a man in a police uniform in the UK questioning a S. Korean YouTuber about his visa status & travel route while he was filming himself eating a burger.

The video sparked angry comments on YouTube, sparking debate about racial profiling.

What happened in the mountainous areas of Taiwan during the earthquake on April 3rd, 2024

Bordering China -

High Radiation Levels Prompt State Of Emergency In Russia's Khabarovsk rferl.org/a/russia-khaba…

A while ago a Singaporean taxi driver asked me what a UK hawker centre lunch might cost. I explained that there aren't any. He asked what office workers ate, and I explained the concept of Meal Deals. And he looked at me with such a powerful combination of pity and revulsion.

Chinese soldiers onboard DC3, flying over Himalaya, to U.S. Ramgarh Training Center in India, 1943.
They wearing straw sandals, later went to Burma to fight against the Japanese army, and most of them died on the battlefield.

#Scoop is a terrific movie - well done Sam McAlister! Finally an authentic movie about journalism by someone who actually knows what it's like... and l loved the contrast between work/life - one minute you're talking to royalty, the next you're on a bus home via the kebab shop…

Great investigative journalism here. Bravo

Taiwan earthquake: How the island's two-decade preparation saved it ⁦Rupert Wingfield-Hayes⁩ bbc.com/news/world-asi…

This is one of the dumbest yet stickiest tropes about foreign media in the Chinese propagandasphere. I’m sure many of the clowns that promote it know better.

FT now has more people than NYT+WSJ+WaPo(0) combined in the Chinese mainland, I think?