Pakistan 🇵🇰 & Afghanistan 🇦🇫 bureau chief @AFP. Previously China 🇨🇳 news editor, desks in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 & Paris 🇫🇷. Ex @PA in UK 🇬🇧

Joined April 2011
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AFP is seeking a dynamic and highly motivated English-language correspondent for its Islamabad bureau. If you’re an experienced multimedia journalist, fluent in Urdu and with great contacts in Pakistan, this could be for you ! Apply here : welcometothejungle.com/en/co…
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Today, @AFP is publishing a package of stories on China’s property crisis — something my colleagues and I have been working on for months. 🏡👇
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Today, after months of work -- and missions north, south, east and west -- @AFP is running our bureau's package of stories on how China's property market crisis is impacting people's lives across the country 🧵👇
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Chinese tattoo artist tells women's stories through ink news.yahoo.com/chinese-tatto… Great story by @jingxuanteng for @AFP in Beijing

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Search for Inner Mongolia mine collapse survivors on hold after landslide news.yahoo.com/search-china-… by @AFP in #China

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China's foreign minister Qin Gang said in a speech this morning that Beijing is "deeply concerned" about the conflict in #Ukraine, which is "intensifying and even getting out of control"
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Beijing will "work with the international community to promote dialogue and consultation, address the concerns of all parties and seek common security," Qin said in a speech on global security
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Beijing has strongly denied US claims that China is considering arming Russia in its war against Ukraine, as it reiterated a call for dialogue to end the conflict. u.afp.com/isu2

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With China's dropping of its "zero-Covid" policy, makeshift quarantine centres and testing booths are being repurposed as mini-libraries, information points or even housing f24.my/9GLA.T

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Alleged corruption at the top of Chinese football has left President Xi Jinping's dream of his country becoming a global force in the sport appear more remote than ever f24.my/9GAQ.T by @matthewwalsh91 for @AFP in Beijing
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Pleased to say (slightly belatedly) I’ve made it to Beijing as @AFP’s Deputy Bureau Chief / News Editor for China and Mongolia. Any tips for this amazing city very welcome! DMs open
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So excited to announce that I've joined @AFP as a Correspondent for China & Mongolia based in Beijing. I look forward to working alongside my outstanding teammates to cover this fascinating country at such a critical juncture in world affairs.
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26 Jan 2023
#UPDATE Eight people are dead, including six Chinese nationals, after a ship sank off the coast of Japan, a Chinese diplomat tells state media. The Jin Tian sent a distress signal on Tuesday evening from a position around 110 kilometres (68 miles) west of the Danjo Islands
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China says Covid deaths down by nearly 80 percent rfi.my/96O2.T by @afp in Beijing

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Then and now AFP China photographer @hectorretamal revisits some of the places he went during Wuhan's first lockdown three years ago
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Third anniversary of first Wuhan lockdown. #AFP Files pictures by @hectorretamal
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'Not afraid of the virus' Fascinating video from AFP's visit to Wuhan, three years after Covid-19 caused the megacity to be locked down
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VIDEO: 'Not afraid of the virus': Wuhan turns page on Covid, three years on. Residents of China's Wuhan say they are hopeful for the future and no longer afraid of Covid-19, three years after the city was locked down over what was then a mysterious virus
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Bustling Wuhan markets celebrate New Year but grief remains rfi.my/95Y7.T by AFP's team in Wuhan

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China's pet sitters back in business after Covid reopening f24.my/9C6l.T

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