What to watch at China's Two Sessions next week?

—Growth target, deficit target, policy signals in premier Li Qiang's first government work report

—What will Xi Jinping do?

—New foreign minister?

—Many more...

Me and Jing Qian put our heads together for Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI):

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Hello from Taipei! Follow BBC News (World) coverage on the election bbc.com/news/live/worl…

General Tso’s chicken to bento bowls: A food guide to Taiwan politics bbc.in/3vohSNs

It’s too soon to tell what the lasting impact of these losses are, but the extent of them, and the military junta’s seeming inability to reverse them, suggest it is struggling to overcome new levels of resistance to its coup. bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

🚨We have another vacancy for a Journalist at the BBC News (World)'s new Global China Unit, this time for a Journalist. #JournoJobs

🌍Based in London or any major BBC bureau
⏰ Apply by 15 October 2023

careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Journalist…

Blackswan: The K-pop girl group with no Korean members bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

This is a really interesting piece about K-pop from my BBC Korean colleague Yuna Ku - I edited it with Yvette Tan astudestra ajeng for BBC Asia

The first song of Spotfiy's Discover Weekly list for me is... Don Don Donki (Japanese version).

目前的伦敦涂鸦墙：

Starbucks Vietnam: Why the US chain cannot crack a coffee-loving nation bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

A fun piece for the weekend by Thuong Le of BBC News Tiếng Việt for BBC Asia

Edited by Aparna Alluri, astudestra ajeng and me

Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋 Human Rights Watch And our text story is here: bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

(Would like to thank our videographer in Tokyo for filming for the video 🙏🏻

And thank you Grace Tsoi Tessa Wong 黄晓恩 so much for editing. It’s been years since I wrote a text piece… 😓)

Dramatic rise… and fall

(INVESTIGATION/thread) Baby monkey Mini just days old was taken from her mother in the forest and sold to a YouTuber. The pple who were paying to see her abused were on the other side in the US and the UK. We exposed a global monkey torture ring. READ bbc.co.uk/news/extra/Iot…

Very late tweet... I wrote about the viral memes called 'Kong Yiji Literature' for BBC Asia w/ quotes from @sebastianveghk & Eileen Cheng

And special thanks to Alexander Boyd for the chat

Edited by Aparna Alluri

bbc.com/news/world-asi…

Why did young Chinese love stand-up comedy?

'[Stand-up comedy] is like dancing with shackles. But as long as there is even the slightest opportunity to express themselves, they are willing to speak. And that is touching.'

By Wei Wang of BBC News 中文
bbc.com/news/world-asi…

#JUSTNOW This woman was taken away by police after a search. Not immediately clear what triggered the search. She upheld a small card with the Chinese characters “conscience” during the search. She wore a yellow mask, a black tee, a yellow skirt, and yellow socks with “Hong Kong”

Hong Kong, 4 June 2023