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Here’s one of the more uplifting stories I’ve worked on in a while. I went to Mae Sot to hang out with Burmese women who are trying soccer for the first time — in exile. Stunning photos by @laurendecicca
Sui-Lee Wee 黄瑞黎
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Sui-Lee Wee 黄瑞黎
@suilee
@nytimes Southeast Asia Bureau Chief. Previously covering China from 2010-2021. Pronounced Sweet, without the T. Previous homes: 🇨🇳🇭🇰🇺🇸🇸🇬
- I shadowed several groups in the Philippines going door to door for Leni Robredo. The majority of them are first-time voters or too young to vote. I left inspired by their energy and their passion.
- Every journalist knows that a single death is a tragedy, a million a statistic. 68,000 people have recovered from the coronavirus outbreak, while nearly 5,000 have died. @vwang3 and I zoom in on two of them: two 29-yr-old female medical workers from Wuhan.
- I spoke to policing experts on Indonesia, who said the soccer tragedy in Malang speaks to broader issues confronting the police force. Poor training in crowd control, a highly militarized force, and crucially, almost accountable to no one.
- This is alarming. World’s first systematic examination of antibody levels in patients who had recovered from Covid-19 found nearly a third had surprisingly low levels of antibodies.
- Thrilled to see the Filipina inventor of banana ketchup in “Overlooked No More.” What a fascinating history.
- Replying to @suileeWhat did Mr. Marcos accomplish in the Senate? While in his six years in the Senate, nearly 70 percent of the 52 laws he pushed for were on designating holidays and festivals, renaming highways and reapportioning provinces and cities.
- I first heard of Ferdinand Marcos when I was five, so covering his son at his rallies more than 30 years later was surreal. @CamilleElemia and I explore the context that has shaped his rise and delve into his track record.
- Wow. Singapore is imposing sanctions on Russia. Extremely unusual for a country that typically abides only by a U.N. Security Council decision, said it had to act because of the "unprecedented gravity of Russia's attack on Ukraine."
- Chay Hofileña, a senior editor at Rappler: “If, in a Duterte Presidency, the main issue was human rights, in a Marcos Presidency it would be truth. I don’t know what’s worse, someone who doesn’t value life or someone who doesn’t value truth.”
- 1. There's a lot of buzz on the astronomical jump in cases from Hubei on Wednesday -- 14,840 new confirmed cases, almost 10 x compared to a day earlier. New deaths rose to 242, more than double fr day b4. The govt has changed the diagnostic criteria used to confirm cases. More ..
- Grateful to Dr. Raquel Fortun for allowing me to spend some time with her and several skeletons of the drug war. Here’s my profile on @Doc4Dead:
