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Helen Davidson

Helen Davidson is a Guardian correspondent based in Taipei

Email: helen.davidson@theguardian.com

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January 2025

  • Students in Taiwan participate in an ocean safety class with teacher Tseng Ching-ming, who is trying to turn around the low rates of swimming and a deeply entrenched fear of the ocean.

    Taiwan’s next generation takes on its fear of the deep

  • Exterior of immigration detention centre

    Relatives plead with Thailand not to deport 48 Uyghur men to China

  • A cargo ship traverses the Agua Clara locks of the Panama Canal in September 2024.

    Trump says China is ‘operating’ the Panama canal – here are the facts

  • Tourists at the Temple of Heaven complex in Beijing this month

    China’s economic need and soft diplomacy spur about-face on visa-free entry

  • Hong Kong chief justice claims overseas judges have left due to ‘orchestrated harassment’

  • Australia exposed to modern slave labour imports and many businesses ‘ignoring the facts’, commissioner warns

  • Thousands of imports enter Australia from firms blacklisted by US over alleged Uyghur forced labour links

  • Censorship, homework help and cats: China’s RedNote users welcome ‘TikTok refugees’

  • Mike Pence to Trump: cutting Taiwan support would ‘likely spark a new nuclear arms race’

  • A kidnapped Chinese actor, a scam gang, and a very public rescue operation

  • HMPV: What is human metapneumovirus, are cases surging in China, and should we be worried?

  • Tibet earthquake: rescuers search for survivors after powerful quake kills 126

  • The maps that show how China’s military is squeezing Taiwan

  • Taiwan investigating Chinese vessel over damage to undersea cable

  • Scores dead and hundreds of homes damaged in Tibet quake

  • Australia news live
    Victorian Labor minister takes aim at Brad Battin over ‘terrible representation’ of women in shadow cabinet – as it happened

  • China’s yuan hits 16-month low amid fears over Trump tariffs

  • Doomed to fail? Hong Kong’s attempt to tackle ‘shoebox housing’ runs into trouble

December 2024

  • A clearing in mangroves on the coast of Kupang, where a group of six Chinese men wandered ashore looking for accommodation.

    Fleeing Xi’s China: following the trail of migrants trying to reach Australia through Indonesia

  • Chinese tour groups gather in Ubud, Indonesia. Chinese tourists have been slow to return to major holiday destinations after the pandemic, but Indonesia is aiming to double its numbers this year.

    Indonesia chases the return of ‘bonanza-era’ Chinese tourism

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