TOKYO JOURNALISM JOB:
Hey all -- the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is looking for a new local-hire producer to work with me (and future correspondents), in the North Asia bureau.

If you're interested, or know someone who might be, they can send me a direct message.

From #Taiwan 's Central News Agency: a comparison of
【RED】the current Joint Sword-2024A #PLA exercises and
【GRAY】 the drills that followed Pelosi's visit in August 2022.
The ongoing exercises are taking place near the outlying islands.

I don't call myself a 'war reporter' but I reported on a war and 'my fixer' paid a price. This is how news is made in the West. TY to Jessica Reed Pulitzer Center's Tom Hundley my friend 'Zleke' for letting me tell his incredible story. theguardian.com/world/article/…

No such thing as a free lunch. Me for Guardian Australia on Gina Rinehart's unusual relationship with swimming and several other Olympic sports theguardian.com/sport/article/…

Veteran China correspondent Ben Lim passed away this morning at 5am due to severe acute pancreatitis. A towering figure in China reporting, his tenure with Reuters was marked by numerous groundbreaking stories on Chinese politics. His legacy endures. #RIPBenLim

Important piece from Shane Wright.

A single paragraph worth $6.5 billion.

Shane Wright

theage.com.au/politics/feder…

Such an interesting story on Chinese small business ppl who went broke through Beijing's lockdowns and then risked it all to smuggle their way to Australia via boat abc.net.au/news/2024-05-2… Solid first person reporting too via Wing Kuang

Jurgen Klopp leaves Liverpool after legendary era with 8 titles! ❤️👋🏻

🏆 Premier League 2020
🏆 Champions League 2019
🏆 Club’s World Cup 2019
🏆 UEFA Super Cup 2019
🏆 FA Cup 2022
🏆 Community Shield 2022
🏆🏆 Carabao Cup 2022, 2024

𝐋𝐄𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐃. 👑

The shorter version of my interviews with outgoing Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen.

youtu.be/n9d_S_K5X_k?si…

Absolutely fabulous bit of writing by Angus Dalton. A profile over lunch on the moth-obsessed CSIRO boss.

smh.com.au/national/i-thi…

The Japanese government has been dragged into changing its custody laws through international shame. They still have not gone far enough.

日本政府因国际耻辱而被迫改变这些法律。他们还没有走得足够远。

smh.com.au/world/asia/jap…

長年にわたる国際的な非難を受けて金曜日、日本の国会がこの国の百年続く制度の変更を承認したことを受けて、日本の親たちは初めて子供の共同親権を求めることができるようになる.

Australian parents in Japan will be able to seek joint custody of their children for the first time after the Japanese parliament signed off on changes to the country’s century-old system following years of international outrage.

smh.com.au/world/asia/thi…

WOW - what a story The Sydney Morning Herald
Broncos star’s father could face death penalty in Indonesia following drug arrest smh.com.au/world/asia/bro…

The other portrait Gina Rinehart wants removed from the National Gallery

smh.com.au/culture/art-an…

Here is the letter from Swimming Queensland chief Kevin Hasemann to the National Gallery. Hasemann and Kyle Chalmers coordinated a group of 20 elite Australian swimmers to campaign against the portrait of Rinehart by Archibald Prize-winning Indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira.

An Olympic gold medallist and one of the top officials in Australian swimming led the charge against the National Gallery hanging a portrait of mining billionaire Gina Rinehart, labelling the artwork “offensive to a great Australian”.

smh.com.au/culture/art-an…

The portrait Gina Rinehart doesn't want you to see

smh.com.au/culture/art-an… Linda Morris

Australia's Qantas to suspend Shanghai flights on low demand reuters.com/business/aeros…

This world-exclusive story takes you inside China’s secretive police force, through the back story of a former agent. He is now risking everything to speak out. So too are his high-profile former targets. abc.net.au/news/2024-05-1…