@BBCWorld journalist in Singapore. previously: @TIME @VICE

Joined January 2020
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Trump's tariffs leave China's neighbours with an impossible choice bbc.in/3Y4HGK4

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Beep beep! A great opportunity for young journos in sg - Ruairí and the rest of the team have been an absolute pleasure to work with & learn from
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Koh Ewe, Koyu retweeted
8 Oct 2024
Mahrang Baloch was placed on a security list the day after being named to the TIME100 Next, for her work defending minority rights. Now Pakistan is barring her from traveling to New York time.com/7071983/mahrang-bal…
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So it’s official: Israel is the 69th member of the Asian Development Bank. Worries have bubbled for months among some ADB staff who see the welcoming of Israel as “tactless” given its ongoing war in Gaza. adb.org/news/israel-joins-ad…
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Israel’s official entry today comes after deadline extensions to meet ADB membership requirements—including one in Dec 2023, after Israel started its military campaign in Gaza. This latest extension is what the staff found most troubling. Full story: time.com/7024954/asian-devel…
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Koh Ewe, Koyu retweeted
27 Sep 2024
Exclusive: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is set to welcome Israel as its newest member despite some staff concerns about Israel’s military campaign in Gaza time.com/7024954/asian-devel…
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Koh Ewe, Koyu retweeted
13 Sep 2024
This is the greatest Thailand news in the Time Magazine today by ⁦@hellokoyu⁩ Meet Thailand’s viral baby hippo Moo Deng, the Internet’s Latest Obsession | TIME #หมูเด้ง #ฮิปโปแคระ time.com/7021047/moo-deng-ba…
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New piece on Shein, the sort of Singaporean, but really Chinese, fast fashion company that is everywhere but no one knows much about. How the exceedingly opaque company and its billionaire founder became a Chinese success story realized in America: theatlantic.com/internationa…
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Nusantara progress sputters, Jokowi’s reputation sours. Insights from @vishnujuwono @yanuarnugroho @iwilson69
27 Aug 2024
Indonesia’s new capital—and its outgoing President’s legacy—is in limbo time.com/7015043/indonesia-n…
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The Olympics fever may be subsiding, but it’s worth remembering the darker side of professional sport: the mental toll it takes on athletes at the top of their game. My interview with Singapore’s first & (so far) only Olympic champ:
19 Aug 2024
Singaporean swimmer Joseph Schooling, who beat Michael Phelps in 2016 to win his country’s first and only Olympic gold medal, talks to TIME about his historic rise—and why he decided to retire earlier this year at age 28 ti.me/4dPtFVQ
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Koh Ewe, Koyu retweeted
19 Aug 2024
Touching piece from @hellokoyu on the Singaporean who beat Phelps — and the ways his sport, his country let him down. "[Schooling’s] experience is an example of how fragile being at the top can be, and how fickle people’s grace can become.” time.com/7011677/life-after-…
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Seething a few days ago about the notion that #Thailand was having a Senate “election”, I spoke to @TIME. I come off quite blunt, but it’s well justified. Thanks to @hellokoyu for reaching out. 🙏🏼 time.com/6993473/thailand-20…
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Uncanny is the only word I can think of: Thai Move Forward MP @LookkateChonth1 was sentenced to jail for a past protest on the same day that her TIME profile—highlighting her activist roots and potential to change the political scene—came out in print.
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Lookkate is appealing her conviction. (If it's upheld she will lose her MP status.) We may see her as a "next generation leader trying to change the world," she told me today, "but in Thailand, they look at me like someone dangerous to the society." time.com/6982473/chonthicha-…
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Thank you @hellokoyu and @TIME for sharing my story. I hope this will bring attention to the human rights situation in Thailand.
17 May 2024
Chonthicha “Lookkate” Jangrew has lost count of the number of times she’s been arrested while participating in Thailand’s pro-democracy movement ti.me/44NrI9p
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14 Feb 2024
Prabowo Subianto, a former general who was once banned from entering the U.S. because of alleged human rights abuses, looks set to become the next President of Indonesia time.com/6694656/indonesia-e…
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