Jonathan Head

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BBC SE Asia Correspondent, Bangkok, but all tweets are my own observations and opinions. Retweets are not necessarily endorsements.

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    Apr 4

    Another emotionally bruising day for Chit Suu Win, the wife of jailed Reuters journalist Kyaw Soe Oo, and their two-year-old daughter Moe Thin Wai Zan. He appeared in court today facing a 14-year jail sentence for reporting on a Myanmar military atrocity.

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    Apr 3

    Reminder- Tonight 7PM- Move Over Dinosaurs Featuring: Thanatorn Juangroongruangkit, founder, Future Forward Party Varawut Silpa-archa, Chart Thai Pattana Party Lieutenant Preechapol Pongpanit, Pheu Thai Parit 'Itim' Wacharasindhu, Democrat Party supporter

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    Apr 3
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    They’ve apparently switched some of the sensor readings from PM2.5 to PM10 which is much lower. That’s why you sometimes see green and orange readings from nearby sensors. They should all be PM2.5 and consistent

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    Apr 3

    Veteran Thai journalist alleges that security officials are keeping "report cards" tracking the number of times popular media figures criticize the NCPO. Those with high scores "weeded out".

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    Apr 3

    No one puts their children on a boat unless the water is safer than the land

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    Apr 3

    So ridiculous, so enjoyable to read.

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    Apr 3

    My report on the Rohingya crisis

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    Apr 3

    Myanmar "Police are establishing four new border force regiments in northern Rakhine State’s Maungdaw District to improve security, mostly on top of recently razed Rohingya villages."

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    Apr 3

    Absent from this is mention of the fact that Kyaukphyu's Muslim community was killed/expelled in 2012 & SEZ announced a year later. Maungdaw's SEZ announced weeks after Rohingya expelled. There's a pattern

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    Apr 3

    A message to the Arakan Army? AA has little in common with ARSA other than their common enemies, Tatmadaw and government.

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  12. Apr 3

    Chiang Mai governor should be ashamed of himself, bullying an editor into apologising for drawing attention to his failure to keep his city’s air breathable, rather than fixing the problem

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    Apr 2
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    This has been going on quietly for years in northern Rakhine State as part of the Myanmar authorities’ effort for demographic engineering (some residents in so-called NATALA villages).

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  14. Apr 2

    It sounds benign enough but this is making ethnic cleansing permanent.

    Myanmar authorities have lured dozens of mainly Buddhist Bangladeshi tribal families to cross the border and resettle on land in state abandoned by fleeing Muslim Rohingya, officials say
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    Apr 1

    Thais help boat with presumed Rohingya refugees back to sea "We found that they have been traveling for about 23 days from Rakhine to escape their situation in ," said Adisorn Chormai, a local official in Thailand's Krabi province

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    Apr 2

    Former Singapore foreign minister George Yeo now an independent director in new Yangon govt-owned company that will develop city modelled after Shenzhen

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    Apr 2

    Bangkok peeps, are you all getting used to the Grey Blanket that is suffocating this city? It’s not as bad as Chiangmai so it doesn’t make the news?

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    Apr 2

    Stop by the FCCT Clubhouse and pick up a copy of the Mekong Review.

    . now available at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand in
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    Apr 2

    just passed its - 123 BN Members voted in favor & 64 opposition MPs voted against...this is the death knell for

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  20. Apr 1

    This is the first boat of Rohingyas to arrive in Thailand since 2015. Given the Rakhine crisis it may not be the last this year.

    56 Rohingya reportedly left Thailand's Krabi by boat for Malaysia on Apr 1 after seeking shelter from storm. They're 19 men, 18 women, 8 boys, 11 girls. Thai locals say the Rohingya were exhausted, their boat had leaks but was repaired before departure: Thai media (📷 White News)
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