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Brian Hioe is a writer, editor, translator and activist based in Taipei. He was one of the founders of New Bloom Magazine, an online magazine covering activism and youth politics in Taiwan and the Asia-Pacific region. [1]

Peter Chai is a Ph.D. researcher at the Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University, specializing in political sociology, comparative politics, and public opinion, with a regional focus on East Asia. [2]

New witnesses in support of condemned Catholics The Palu Court has reviewed the case and referred it to the Supreme Court. But the police of Central Sulawesi insist the execution of the three men is "imminent". [3]

I was born in May 1929 on the island of Java, which was then part of the Dutch East Indies. At the time, there was no country called Indonesia. [4]

YANGON -- With a few deft strokes of Beruma's pen, a jowly likeness appears on the blank page: a caricature of Senior Gen. Than Shwe, Myanmar's former dictator. A few more lines and his successor, President Thein Sein, materializes. [5]

TAIPEI -- Shih Ming-teh, who died of liver cancer on his 83rd birthday, was a champion of Taiwan's brutal and bloody struggle for democracy and played a defining role in Asia's democratization. [6]

YANGON — Supporters of firebrand nationalist monk U Wirathu launched campaigns to garner signatures in his support in Karen State and Mandalay Region earlier this month. [7]

TOKYO -- Angelic Moe, 26, may strike some as an unusual resistance fighter. The one-time schoolteacher left her classroom to become a unit battery commander in the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force (KNDF), a leading anti-military resistance group b... [8]

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[1] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2025-11-26 · 39% match

Taiwan's cautious embrace of Japan's new hawkish prime minister

Brian Hioe is a writer, editor, translator and activist based in Taipei. He was one of the founders of New Bloom Magazine, an online magazine covering activism and youth politics in Taiwan and the Asia-Pacific region.

[2] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2025-10-14 · 36% match

Japan's likely first female prime minister is no feminist triumph

Peter Chai is a Ph.D. researcher at the Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University, specializing in political sociology, comparative politics, and public opinion, with a regional focus on East Asia.

[3] MM asianews.it · 50% match

New witnesses in support of condemned Catholics

New witnesses in support of condemned Catholics The Palu Court has reviewed the case and referred it to the Supreme Court. But the police of Central Sulawesi insist the execution of the three men is "imminent".

[4] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2018-09-11 · 43% match

My early years in a turbulent China: Mochtar Riady's story (2)

I was born in May 1929 on the island of Java, which was then part of the Dutch East Indies. At the time, there was no country called Indonesia.

[5] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2015-10-02 · 40% match

Political cartoonists test limits of newfound freedom

YANGON -- With a few deft strokes of Beruma's pen, a jowly likeness appears on the blank page: a caricature of Senior Gen. Than Shwe, Myanmar's former dictator. A few more lines and his successor, President Thein Sein, materializes.

[6] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2024-01-23 · 39% match

Shih Ming-teh was Taiwan's indomitable fighter for democracy

TAIPEI -- Shih Ming-teh, who died of liver cancer on his 83rd birthday, was a champion of Taiwan's brutal and bloody struggle for democracy and played a defining role in Asia's democratization.

[7] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2017-06-21 · 39% match

‘We Love Wirathu’ Campaigns Launched

YANGON — Supporters of firebrand nationalist monk U Wirathu launched campaigns to garner signatures in his support in Karen State and Mandalay Region earlier this month.

[8] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2023-12-31 · 38% match

In Pictures: The women soldiers of Myanmar's resistance

TOKYO -- Angelic Moe, 26, may strike some as an unusual resistance fighter. The one-time schoolteacher left her classroom to become a unit battery commander in the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force (KNDF), a leading anti-military resistance group b

[9] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2018-01-26 · 38% match

'Fifty-six wins, zero losses': The secrets of an M&A maestro

TOKYO -- At the end of each year, as Japanese sit down to write New Year's cards to friends and family, Shigenobu Nagamori is busy with a different sort of correspondence.

[10] FI yle.fi · 2014-11-09 · 36% match

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