At the Asian Financial Forum. Beverley Postma, exec director of Grow Asia, notes her disappointment at how very few women are on stages at this event. Of 142 speakers, 35 are women. Asian Financial Forum

Surreal light in Hong Kong this morning

“They don’t even know how to pronounce Myanmar,” said Ms. Aye Chan Mon, about the reception she often receives in Washington. “They think it’s Yemen.”

Fighting to Govern Myanmar, From a Teeny Office in Washington by Hannah Beech
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Inspiration for HK marathon runners in January. We need more costumes in our race! nytimes.com/2023/11/05/sty…

Many of the U.S. artillery troops sent to bombard the Islamic State returned home plagued by nightmares, panic attacks, depression and hallucinations, a New York Times investigation found. The military struggled to understand what was wrong. nyti.ms/40rnmlP

'It’s impossible to read the sad saga of Mr. Bankman-Fried without thinking he, and many of those around him, would have been better off if they had spent less time at math camp and more time in English class.' David Streitfeld nytimes.com/2023/11/02/tec…

Showing The Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong on Aug. 28, the Emmy-nominated investigative documentary DelikadoFilm
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Hello, The New York Times is looking for a stringer to help us cover Indonesia. This person needs to be:
- fluent in Bahasa Indonesia and English
- be readily available to cover breaking news
Please send me an email with your CV if you are interested at [email protected]

'Public health experts warn that millions of Ukrainians will probably develop a mental health condition because of the invasion.' Important piece by Megan Specia on the work of emergency psychologists in Kyiv nytimes.com/2023/07/03/wor…

'We must resist the urge to generalise a single tragic event onto all those facing mental health challenges.'
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Mak Yin-ting, veteran journalist and ex-chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, was taken away by the police after she was stopped on Great George Street in Causeway Bay on Sunday, as Hong Kong marks the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown.

Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP.

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'Those soldiers who live will have the rest of their lives to ponder if it was worth it.' nytimes.com/2023/05/22/wor… By Thomas Gibbons-Neff, photos by Tyler Hicks

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Generation Connie hits the front page of New York Times Opinion just in time for Mother’s Day! As Alicia PQ Wittmeyer said while we were debating the zillionth tweak to the story and design, we may have gotten overly emotionally invested in this beautiful tale by Connie Wang. Glad to see we’re not alone.

Once driven largely by superstition, the brutal practice is now often simply a tool to oppress women, in many cases violently.

Why is India struggling to eradicate witch-hunting? And what does it mean to be branded a witch?

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Last signup slots are going for this Saturday's Hostile Environment training course for journalists The Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong - it's open to non-members too.
$150 for the day includes course, lunch + coffee
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Works by #HongKong ’s talented student photographers are once again on display at the Foreign Correspondents' Club Hong Kong.📸⭐️🙌🏽

The annual show is open to members & their guests until May 31.

The Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong @HKBaptistU The Chinese University of Hong Kong - CUHK CityU Hong Kong HKU Journalism & Media

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