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    Last month ⁦⁩ and I set out to see what is going on in China’s property market. We knew things weren't great -- we had heard about protests, property sales plummeting and unsold apartments. But we were still pretty surprised at what we found 👇
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    In a Muslim lawyer’s murder, Myanmar’s shattered dream - very powerful reporting by ⁦⁩

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    THREAD: In August 2017, Myanmar's military launched a brutal campaign in Rakhine State that drove more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims into Bangladesh. We investigated the killings and the aftermath in a powerful series called “Myanmar Burning.”

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    Our first investigation revealed a massacre of 10 Rohingya men and boys at a village called Inn Din. Myanmar soldiers and Rakhine villagers rounded them up and shot or hacked them to death.

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    Dec 28

    Our Reuters colleagues Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested while reporting on the massacre and later sentenced to 7 years in jail. Their plight underscored what critics saw as deteriorating press freedom under Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's government

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    The families of the 10 dead Rohingya men fled to Bangladesh, where they scattered across the world's largest refugee camp. We tracked down the families. Traumatized and bereft, they told us about the day their men were taken away.

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    Myanmar’s military is so secretive that even its official spokesmen rarely speak to the media. Reuters revealed how two light infantry divisions, famed for ruthless offensives against ethnic minorities, spearheaded the campaign against the Rohingya.

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    A Muslim lawyer wanted to curb the military's power. Then a gunman stepped out of the crowd at Yangon airport and put a bullet through his head. We showed how the murder of Ko Ni, an adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi, signaled dark days for Myanmar.

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    Most reporters are banned from northern Rakhine State. So we used satellite imagery and government maps to reveal what Myanmar had done there since expelling the Rohingya. A U.N. rights envoy told us the authorities were making that expulsion irreversible.

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    Once a global icon, Aung San Suu Kyi is now isolated and besieged by critics. The U.N. says her government did nothing to avert the military's "genocidal" campaign against the Rohingya. Our visual history retraced her remarkable life.

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    Finally, a tale of two sisters. It’s hard for a young woman from a remote Myanmar village to get to university, harder still for a Rohingya woman fleeing a brutal military crackdown. Formin Akter did it - but had to leave her beloved sister behind.

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  12. Dec 28

    Shot in the back: the dangers of being an opposition candidate in Bangladesh Fascinating (and troubling) report, by and

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  13. Dec 28

    In the days after Christmas, we have occasion to revisit some gift decisions

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    Insight: Collapse in India's onion prices could leave Modi smarting in election … great reporting, as always, by and

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    Dec 28

    Interesting bit here re: Ma Ba Tha. Users in Myanmar were actually complaining recently that even posts that were anti-MBT and denouncing the group were being taken down. Would still like to see that list of “over 50” languages. I asked for it previously but FB declined to share.

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  16. Dec 28

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    When we visited the Southern University of Science and Technology was hosting a conference and visiting experts were checking in unaware Dr. He was being held a few floors above. At least 12 plainclothes guards live on the floor with him and prevented us from getting close.
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  17. Dec 28

    Oh man, this thread is really interesting:

    He Jiankui who shocked the science world by announcing he created the world’s first genetically edited babies had been missing since a November conference in Hong Kong. found him under house arrest at a dorm at his university in Shenzhen.
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  18. Dec 28

    This is an interesting thing to think about:

    I do not think that one should read books that are directly addressing current events. They are mostly written in haste w/the objective to make money. Nobody will remember them. There cannot be a serious analysis of something that is ongoing. For that one is better off w/Twitter.
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