两周前，八名中国走线人葬身墨西哥海岸。我和 Fu Beimeng📹📍🇲🇽 找到更多他们的身份信息。唯一的幸存者名叫黄忠锦，50岁，福建人。他的妻子和儿子据称都在海难中丧生。在这起事故的背后，是墨西哥塔帕丘拉盘根错节的人口贩运网络，我们还发现，其中有当地华人中餐馆老板的深度参与。

🚨BIG STORY🚨Swiggy has gamified health insurance for delivery workers, changing insurance tiers depending on a worker's weekly performance. Varsha Bansal breaks an important story for Rest of World restofworld.org/2024/swiggy-he…

As Taiwan faces a semiconductor talent shortage, students from Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines are heading to the island to learn about chipmaking.

Story by Lam Le
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Thank you for the opportunity to speak about the potential of Taiwan's startups. I think the number of strengths far outweigh the number of weaknesses!

My latest piece on China's 'overcapacity' and how it reveals a deeper divide between its vision of the world and how other countries see it. I also talk about what's missing in the current debate and what China should do about it. high-capacity.com/p/chinas-overc…

Next week! Taiwan and India are steadily pursuing closer economic and political relations through frameworks like Taiwan's New Southbound Policy. What are the impacts of these developments on workers in both places?

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How Tesla and China built an unusually symbiotic relationship, with credits, workers and parts that not only made Mr. Musk ultrarich but also tethered him to Beijing. Our investigation:
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Governments around the world are using facial recognition to punish protesters: anti-war activists in Russia, Muslims in India, women without hijab in Iran.

A deep-dive from Rest of World Darren Loucaides
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As China’s EV industry enters an era of price war and consolidation, some consumers are witnessing their EV makers collapsing, leaving software in limbo.

Others are seeing their newly-bought cars getting much cheaper in a few months.
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Gig workers can’t catch a break.

Rest of World surveyed over 100 gig workers in 10 countries to understand how & where they rest.

The results paint a harrowing picture —
one replete with exhaustion and cities hostile to those working on the streets.

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Thrilled to learn our months-long reporting on Foxconn's struggle in producing iPhones in India was awarded best business feature by SABEW (small division)

It was a phenomenal experience reporting alongside the formidable Viola Zhou, whose work ethic pushed me to do more. It…

great run with Nilesh Christopher Kevin Schoenmakers !

Viola Zhou & Nilesh Christopher's deep reporting on FoxConn's struggle to make iPhones in India won in the Features category, small division.

Read the story ICYMI: restofworld.org/2023/foxconn-i…

1/The I-Soon leak exposed hacking operations against dozens of countries, showing how they steal data and sell it to Chinese police to help them surveil citizens overseas.

But it also revealed seedy practices prevalent in the hacking industry. A thread:
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For Rest of World, I visited a TikTok livestream studio in NYC to see the earliest adopters of livestream e-commerce in the U.S. at work. These studios, staffed with Chinese experts, are training American TikTok Live sellers with the Chinese playbook.

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We gave delivery riders in 3 South Asian cities air quality monitors, to see how they're affected by harmful pollution.

Here's just one result. That pale line at the bottom? That's the WHO's guidelines for exposure.

This story is well worth your time: restofworld.org/2024/riders-in…

In my latest for The Wire China:
For years, Sixth Tone succeeded in carving out a precarious, but unique space in China’s media ecosystem. But conversations with 15 former and current employees reveal how the publication has been neutered over the past year.

My latest for Rest of World is set in three South Asian megacities: Lahore, New Delhi, and Dhaka — and how rising levels of air pollution have left gig workers exposed, vulnerable, and sick 🧵

Fascinating story by Rachel Cheung about the plight of Sixth Tone.

Per one employee: “Sixth Tone went from being one of the most open & progressive Chinese state media to the most restricted in the last few months … beyond the likes of Global Times”
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1/A few days ago, files from a contractor for Chinese police quietly dumped online went viral. But though analysts thought the files authentic, they weren't 100% confident.

Now, after a visit to the company's offices, I can confirm the leak is real:
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