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Asia Editor, The Times. Author of GHOSTS OF THE TSUNAMI, PEOPLE WHO EAT DARKNESS & IN THE TIME OF MADNESS. Winner Prize 2018.

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  1. Sep 18

    “It was very, very naive." UK military rugby team visit shrine for war criminals in Japan

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    Sep 17

    “They have the pen, they have the gun, they have a country. I have nothing.” Worrying report on tensions between the host population in Bangladesh and Rohingya refugees

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    Sep 14

    Regardless of the quality of rugby, Japan is a fascinating and delightful place to travel. The differences of culture, custom and cuisine are part of the pleasure of being in this country - everyone should have a memorable time, writes

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    Sep 13

    Tomorrow's edition of comes with a lovingly crafted 64-page guide to the Rugby World Cup. 🏉 previews the whole shebang 🏉 tells you all about Japan 🏉 Insight from , , , and

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  6. Sep 10

    Sayonara to the moustachioed Strangelove. Adieu to the man described by the North Korean state media as a “human scum and bloodsucker” and a “human defect“. John Bolton is one of those people in the world who loves war. The world today is a very slightly safer place.

    I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House. I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did others in the Administration, and therefore....
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  7. Sep 4

    “A stunning account of how the living are haunted by the need to reclaim their dead.” Thank you very much to for warm words about Ghosts of the Tsunami. Do not fail to read her new novel Platform Seven!

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    Sep 4

    Scrapping Hong Kong extradition bill won’t end protests, writes

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    Sep 3

    "A stunning account of how the living are haunted by the need to reclaim their dead." APPLE TREE YARD author Louise Doughty in with great praise for 's GHOSTS OF THE TSUNAMI

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    Sep 3

    Analysis by : It has been rumoured for weeks now that Carrie Lam, chief executive of Hong Kong, is in a bad way

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    Sep 2

    One from our archive by : In 2011 a tsunami engulfed Japan’s north-east coast. More than 18,000 people were killed. Years later, in one community, survivors are still tormented by a catastrophic split-second decision

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  12. Aug 3

    “A vast amount of high-level human activity — military, diplomatic and political — depends on the answer to a deceptively simple question: what is Kim Jong-un really like?” My review of ’s biography of the world’s only nuclear-armed millennial

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  13. Aug 3

    “This has to be connected with Thai politics. It is part of a continuing organised crackdown on dissidents.” My report on the bizarre attack in Japan on the exiled Thai academic

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    Jul 30

    It's harder to arrest a leadership that does not exist but having nobody in charge leaves the protesters in Hong Kong open to harming their own cause, argues

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    Jul 13

    ⁦⁩ re my complaint about your rotting broccoli, please DM me

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    Jul 10

    This is my favourite removal of a British Ambassador to the USA story since Northcliffe forced Cecil Spring Rice out in 1918. Spring Rice, notified of his dismissal in a one-line telegram, wrote the words to I Vow to Thee My Country as a rather poignant response to being shafted.

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    Jul 8

    Highlights the deep colonial backstory to the uprisings—not just about the CCP's imperial designs, but also undoing what the British left behind, an undemocratic system that continues to suppress HK's democratisation.

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  18. Jul 8

    '“Rupert Dover, you are British, and [yet] you serve the interests of Beijing,” Joshua Wong shouted.' My report on the Hong Kong activist and the British police officer.

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  19. Jul 7

    Watching the confrontation in Mong Kok live on my laptop from my Hong Kong hotel a couple of miles away. I have never reported like this before. It’s extraordinary; it feels as if something profound has changed, although I struggle to identify exactly what.

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  20. Jul 7

    Their principal weapon is a green laser beam which they direct, to their rage, into the faces of the fuzz and at the pole-mounted camera with which they are surveilling the crowd. Megaphone appeals by the busies to lay off are ignored.

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