Fanny Potkin @f_potkin

covering tech across Asia at @reuters. Get in touch at [email protected]. Southeast Asia Joined August 2013

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Yong Xiong @yongxiong2008

a year ago

CNN just published a months-long investigation by my colleagues and me about China building or expanding more than 200 specialized detention centers nationwide as Xi Jinping widens his corruption purge. #liuzhi #留置中心 Read our report & a thread (1/12): edition.cnn.com/2024/12/28/chi…

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Max Cherney @chernandburn

2 years ago

Inside Intel: how CEO Pat Gelsinger fumbled the revival of an American Icon With @JLDastin @DawnC331 @f_potkin and @StephenNellis reuters.com/technology/ins…

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Reuters @Reuters

2 years ago

Cambodian military police said they have arrested Mech Dara, an award-winning reporter known for investigating local corruption, trafficking and online scam centers, prompting concern from a prominent human rights group and the US reut.rs/3XFFaIY

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Sebastian Strangio @sstrangio

2 years ago

Awful news. Dara is a fantastic journalist, and has been responsible for a hefty percentage of the reporting on Cambodia's online scamming industry, including its connections to the country's political elite.

Phoung Vantha @VanthaPhoung

2 years ago

Cambodian freelancer journalist @MechDara1 was apprehended during his return journey from Sihanoukville with his family. As of now, there is no official confirmation regarding the nature of his charges.

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Al Jazeera Investigations @AJIunit

2 years ago

Our investigation into the #MinistersMillions uncovers how a powerful Bangladesh politician built a half billion dollar property empire. See inside Saifuzzaman Chowdhury's $14m London home, where he reveals his hidden wealth to our hidden cameras. Watch: aje.io/MinistersMilli…

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Shibani Mahtani @ShibaniMahtani

2 years ago

Stand News' editors were defending the entire profession of journalism in Hong Kong when they pled not guilty. They pushed back against charges that op-eds, features and articles were anything other than normal journalism. Their guilty verdict will have profound implications.

Tom Grundy @tomgrundy

2 years ago

Prosecutors said Stand sought to incite hatred against the gov't through 17 website articles. Included interviews w/activists, op-eds by democrats like Nathan Law, a feature about protests & a hard news piece about an activist winning a rights prize. 11 were found 'seditious.'

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Fanny Potkin @f_potkin

2 years ago

@KeithZhai All my congratulations Keith! Excited to try it out.

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Sami @ZulkarnainSaer

2 years ago

𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐢 𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐇𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐚'𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 "Blindfolded, handcuffed and bundled out of his secret prison for the first time in eight years, Bangladeshi barrister Ahmad Bin Quasem held his breath and listened for the sound of a cocked pistol. Instead he was tossed from a car and into a muddy ditch on Dhaka's outskirts -- alive, at liberty and with no knowledge of the national upheaval that had prompted his abrupt release". Reports @AFP @MazedMohammad #PitchaDangprasith

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Poppy McPherson @poppymcp

2 years ago

‘A heavily pregnant woman and her 2-year-old daughter were among the victims in the attack, the single deadliest known assault on civilians in Rakhine during recent weeks of fighting.’ Reporting with ⁦@Shoon_Naing⁩ ⁦@DevjyotGhoshal⁩. reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

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Reuters Asia @ReutersAsia

2 years ago

Exclusive: Samsung's 8-layer HBM3E chips clear Nvidia's tests for use, sources say reut.rs/4dehfXL

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Fanny Potkin @f_potkin

2 years ago

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David Bergman @TheDavidBergman

2 years ago

BREAKING: Formal confirmation that Muhammad Yunus has agreed to be head of the interim government. Lamiya Murshed, Executive Director of the Yunus Centre told me that she recently spoke to Yunus, who is currently in Paris, and that he told her: "I have agreed to the request of the student leaders to be head of the interim government. I told the student leaders 'I did not want to do this. it is not what I do, but that how can I refuse their request after all that you have done'." Yunus was speaking to the student leaders Nahid Islam and Asif Mahmud. Murshed said that Yunus would be flying back to Bangladesh soon. It is now understood that the Chief of Army Staff and the President are agreeable to Yunus taking this position, and a meeting between them and Nahid is currently taking place.

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Techmeme @Techmeme

2 years ago

Sources: Huawei, Baidu, and other Chinese tech companies have been stockpiling Samsung HBM chips since early 2024, in anticipation of US curbs on those chips (Reuters) reuters.com/technology/chi… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240806/p1#a240…

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Nazmul Ahasan @the_nazmul

2 years ago

🧵 Bangladesh’s Prothom Alo newspaper has a front-page story on the final moments of Hasina’s tenure. She insisted on using brute force until only 45 minutes before her departure; no amount of pleading from her aides and officials could persuade her to relent. 1/n

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Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish

2 years ago

Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina has resigned and left the country, local media reports say, amid growing anti-gov't protests calling for her to step down. Al Jazeera’s Tanvir Chowdhury says thousands of people are celebrating on the streets in Dhaka.

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Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish

2 years ago

Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, as PM Sheikh Hasina resigned following weeks of deadly protests against the gov't. — in pictures aje.io/vbhtlo

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Fanny Potkin @f_potkin

2 years ago

At least 91 people were killed and hundreds injured in clashes in Bangladesh on Sunday as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse tens of thousands of protesters reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

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Nazmul Ahasan @the_nazmul

2 years ago

Many observers of Bangladesh will tell you: ‘We have seen nothing like this.’ Such sustained protest against Hasina, whom students defiantly call an autocrat, was unprecedented over the last 15 years. It’s an absolutely remarkable display of tenacity.

David Bergman @TheDavidBergman

2 years ago

"Who came? Who has come? The police have come, the police have come. What are they doing? They are here to lick the dictator's feet." There are the slogans of the female students yesterday filimed at Thakurgaon in this remarkable video. If, following the killing of over 200

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum

2 years ago

Edison research commissioned an exit poll in Venezuela that, at 6pm, gives Edmundo Gonzalez, the opposition leader, 64% to Maduro's 31%. source below

Juan Forero @WSJForero

2 years ago

Edmundo González tiene 33 puntos de ventaja sobre Maduro, según Edison Research, una empresa americana que realiza encuestas de boca de urna de EEUU. González tiene 64% contra 31% para Maduro. Edison encuestó a 5.464 votantes en 100 centros de votación.

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Adam Satariano @satariano

2 years ago

In Spain, an algorithm scores every reported victim of gender violence on how likely they are to be abused again. At its best, the system helps police protect vulnerable women. But when the score is wrong the consequences have been fatal. nytimes.com/interactive/20…