Greg Torode

@GregTorode

HK-based Reuters Special Correspondent covering politics, security and the South China Sea. Re-tweets for interest, not endorsement. Views my own.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    14 Apr 2020

    ICYMI - Reuters latest, lifting the lid on the pressures Beijing is placing on HK's vaunted judiciary.

    In our latest , three of Hong Kong’s most senior judges tell that the judiciary, the cornerstone of the city’s broad freedoms, is in a fight for its survival with Beijing by and
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  2. Retweeted
    Jan 14

    Exclusive: Long-withheld Pentagon survey shows widespread racial discrimination, harassment

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  3. Retweeted
    Jan 12

    Not quite the scale of the security ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration but 6,000 personnel including APCs and armed police will be deployed to protect CPV's 13th Congress (25/1-2/2). A small parade and rehearsal was held at the weekend. (photo VnExpress)

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  4. Retweeted
    Jan 12

    Vietnamese are trading fake weather reports and football scores on social media as a creative means to discuss Communist Party leadership wrangling after an official ban on speculation ahead of the Party’s biggest and most important meeting in five years.

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  5. Retweeted
    Jan 10

    Photos: Salang Pass, in the north of

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  6. Retweeted
    Jan 11

    Wonderful obituary in by Elizabeth Becker on the passing of many a journalist’s idol - Neil Sheehan. He reported under extreme pressure on the Vietnam War - ‘treated like the enemy by the US and South Vietnamese governments.’

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  7. Retweeted
    Jan 11

    It's 1 year & 2 days since the 1st recorded death. At the time, I kept meticulous data on fatalities for our reporting, archiving each notice. It's a good thing I did. I just noticed a majority of this early links have since been scrubbed from official Chinese sites.

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  8. Retweeted
    Jan 11

    Morning sunrise in (actually frigid)

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  9. Retweeted
    Jan 10

    “I think right now many users are being affected, but few websites are being affected. It seems like it’s a technology test, to test the influence of blocking websites to the entire HK network,”HKChronicles chief editor Naomi Chan said.

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  10. Retweeted
    Jan 4

    Hong Kong Chief Justice Geoffrey Ma, who retires at week's end, speaking on calls for reform to the judiciary:

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  11. Retweeted
    30 Dec 2020

    MY lastest illo for this report by Nuns arrested as Beijing turns up heat on Church in Hong Kong via

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    30 Dec 2020

    Great yarn by my colleague Nuns arrested as Beijing turns up heat on Church in Hong Kong via

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  13. Retweeted
    29 Dec 2020

    Hong Kong developer Hang Lung Properties said it was unable to complete the purchase of a property owned by the U.S. consulate as scheduled on Wednesday because it involved foreign affairs between China and the United States. Via ⁦⁩

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  14. 30 Dec 2020

    Catholics talk of an ominous sense of darkness as pressure mounts in latest via

    Nuns arrested as Beijing turns up heat on Church in Hong Kong via
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    30 Dec 2020

    Nuns arrested as Beijing turns up heat on Church in Hong Kong via

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  16. 30 Dec 2020

    Nuns arrested as Beijing turns up heat on Church in Hong Kong via

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  17. 28 Dec 2020

    Less painful for New Zealand cricket fans...

    In fact but for the two sessions in Adelaide where India fell apart for 36 and Australia raced to a win, India has won every session. Painful to watch for this (and many other) Aussie cricket fans.
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    28 Dec 2020

    In fact but for the two sessions in Adelaide where India fell apart for 36 and Australia raced to a win, India has won every session. Painful to watch for this (and many other) Aussie cricket fans.

    Indns make it 1-All to silence the 4-0 OZ cry...nice to remain calm as & deliver.There were a couple of hiccups on way to 8 Wkts triumph..but all’s well that ends well..this OZ batting is pretty average-read mediocre-so Indns can win the series..InshaAllah..!!
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  19. Retweeted
    28 Dec 2020

    1/ To understand Hong Kong's recent struggles, it's important to understand Carrie Lam's origins and rise to power. and tell her story 👇

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  20. Retweeted
    21 Dec 2020

    Tyrone Siu and I followed the Lais, who are leaving a city they no longer recognise as home, on their journey to Scotland over the course of five months

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  21. Retweeted
    13 Dec 2020

    Timeless

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