Hannah Beech

When a 2,000-pound bomb detonates, it creates a blastwave that can harm people up to 3,000 feet away. Our Visual Investigation suggests Israel routinely dropped this bomb in the area south of Wadi Gaza - the place it had repeatedly told civilians in Gaza to move to for safety. nytimes.com/video/world/10…

A Thai farm worker survived nearly 50 days as a hostage in Gaza with an unlikely companion: a 5-year-old Israeli girl. She prayed each day that her abducted boyfriend would make it, too. nytimes.com/2023/12/13/wor…

In Hong Kong, a government crackdown on neon signs stems from safety and environmental concerns, but the campaign evokes the fading of the city itself. nyti.ms/3NkRBWr

Vietnam is preparing to announce how it will spend $15.5 bln in climate funding from a group of nine rich nations at COP28 but it has also ramped up a crackdown on environmentalists. nytimes.com/2023/11/28/wor…

A story months in the making with @_tom_wilson_. We followed the money trail of pig-butchering scams, the billion-dollar criminal industry robbing people across the world. It led to a Chinese national in Thailand with powerful friends among the elite. reuters.com/investigates/s…

Our story here: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Chinese Coast Guard and maritime militia vessels in the South China Sea created some intriguing water calligraphy this year, off the coast of Vietnam. 中国的中?

For 'social harmony' TikTok is banned in Nepal nytimes.com/2023/11/13/wor…

“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 @hkbeech nytimes.com/2023/11/13/wor…

“They don’t even know how to pronounce Myanmar,” said a member of Myanmar’s pro-democracy shadow government, about the reception she often receives in Washington as she seeks to draw more attention to the country’s plight. nyti.ms/46aSNSS

Thousands of Vietnamese refugees in Texas rebuilt their lives as shrimpers. But the decline of the industry in America is forcing them to consider other options. nyti.ms/3QVSDdC

An alliance of rebel forces in Myanmar has taken several key towns from the country’s military regime, the most successful challenge to the junta that seized power in a coup and the latest evidence of how overstretched the military has become. nytimes.com/2023/11/10/wor…

I have had the pleasure of disagreeing with @KaiserKuo on China issues for some 20 years, including as a regular on the early Sinica podcast. The closure of his and @goldkorn’s China Project is a real loss, and this candid thread is useful for grasping the challenges they faced

NEW: A letter obtained by @nytimes shows the State Dept. has approved a $320 million sale of bomb equipment to Israel. The buyer is Rafael, the big arms maker owned by the Israeli defense ministry. The seller is Bethesda-based Rafael USA. Our story: nytimes.com/live/2023/11/0…

The tragedy of Israel and Gaza extends halfway across the world, to a place where families await word of dozens of missing loved ones. nytimes.com/2023/11/05/wor…

"China's Age of Malaise" -- outstanding New Yorker piece on the state of Xi's China. A sort of sequel by @eosnos to his book "Age of Ambition" newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

More than 900 miles from the Chinese mainland, in an area of the South China Sea that an international tribunal has unequivocally determined does not belong to China, cellphones pinged with a message: “Welcome to China.” - ⁦@hkbeech⁩ at Mischief Reef nytimes.com/2023/09/23/wor…

The U.S. and China are taking bold steps in the espionage shadow war to try to collect intelligence on leadership thinking and military capabilities. nyti.ms/3EMzLXu

TREAD: 1/9 Pleased to share my latest article on China’s colonial-style boarding schools for Tibetan students co-authored with the wonderfully talented and affable Tibetan scholar @tendor. t.ly/lrL2G

A beautiful review of @TahirIzgil (tr: @jlfreeman6)'s powerful new memoir of the Uyghur genocide (out today) - by @BarbaraDemick in @nyt: nytimes.com/2023/08/01/boo…