Japan Media Review @japan-media-review.bsky.social Tired of learning about Japan through Western interpretations? We translate Japanese media and news to show you what Japan is really talking about.
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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social Author, Indonesia, Human Rights Watch, journalism, religious freedom and belief, freedom of expression, West Papua https://www.andreasharsono.net/
High Peaks Pure Earth @hpeaks.bsky.social "Ocean, As Much As Rain" by Tsering Woeser - published by Duke University Press OUT NOW 🌧️ https://linktr.ee/highpeakspureearth
Miguel de la Fuente-Lau @migueldlfl.bsky.social Just be kind.
Biz Dev @ Mekong Review
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Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social Leading the way in Myanmar news. Sign up for our membership programme at https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/membership/
Index on Censorship @indexoncensorship.org A voice for the persecuted.
https://www.indexoncensorship.org/
Hongwei Bao (he/him) @queercomrades.bsky.social Queer Chinese writer and academic based in the UK; author of The Passion of the Rabbit God (Valley Press), Self-Portrait as a Banaba (Poetic Edge) and Queering the Asian Diaspora (Sage).
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal @asiancha.bsky.social asiancha.com
chajournal.com
hkprotesting.com
Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social Academic, poet, translator, & editor of CHA, Voice & Verse, HK Studies, & The Shanghai Literary Review. Junior Fellow @ HK Academy of the Humanities. Resident @ IWP Fall 2023. Email: t@asiancha.com | Originally from Hong Kong, I'm currently based in Paris.
Jon Gresham @jongresham.bsky.social Writer & Photographer - Singapore - Adelaide
Www.jongresham.com
Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social Herbivorous open-water-swimming snowflake bookworm, b. 323.05 ppm. Irish in France. Writer/editor/translator. Work in in Honest Ulsterman, Minor Lit, Irish Times, Courrier International, Cormorant, Incubator, Eastlit, Jaggery, Mekong Review, Esquire ...
Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social Author of Midnight in Peking, City of Devils, Murders of Old China, Peking Noir, The Defectors, Her Lotus Year. The Last Emperor of China is out this August. Return to the City of Darkness - Kowloon Walled City now on BBCSounds. Agent - Aitken-Alexander
Emily Ding @sincerelyed.bsky.social writer/journalist; reader
published essays & reportage, currently experimenting ✍️
re-imagining a gentler world 🌱
📍berlin / kl
emilyding.me
movableworlds.substack.com
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Nicholas Yong @incoherentboy.bsky.social Veteran journalist. Ex-BBC, Yahoo News and Straits Times. Author of short story anthology Seven Sacks of Rice https://www.amazon.sg/Seven-Sacks-Rice-Other-Baggage/dp/9815084585
Sarah Milne @mtmajura.bsky.social Associate Prof @ANU, thinking about political ecology, carbon, conservation, environmental justice
Ann Ang @ann-ang.bsky.social Assistant Professor at NIE-NTU, DPhil English (Oxon)
poco, anglophone Southeast Asia, South Asia, all things Malaya & Borneo | views mine
Peter Schoppert @psmedia.asia Running a university press in Singapore at https://nuspress.nus.edu.sg. Tracking the legal uncertainty around AI training since October 2022 at https://aicopyright.substack.com. Other stuff at https://psmedia.asia.
Sense Hofstede @sensehofstede.nl China Team Brussels Office Head & China Projects Analyst @amo.cz @chinaobservers.eu. Studies China, Singapore, and Taiwan; party-state & international relations. | 何森璱
https://sensehofstede.nl/
Connla Stokes @connla-stokes.bsky.social Writer - Flâneur/ Cycleur ~ Saigon/ HCM City.
Author of 'Falling for Saigon', a collection of essays about life in contemporary Ho Chi Minh City.
https://connla.substack.com 
Nithin Coca @nithincoca.com Asia-focused (🇯🇵🇲🇾🇮🇩 & Tibet) award winning global journalist covering environment, climate, Human Rights & supply chains. DM for Signal 🔑
📍Japan, sometimes California or Indonesia
Mastodon: https://social.coop/@ncoca
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Erin Hale @erin-hale.bsky.social A journalist and noted cat person based in Taiwan.
Rishad @rishad.bsky.social Co-founder of Splice. Lives in #lisboa Product + brand designer, trainer, mentor, speaker, writer, editor, builder, media startup lover. How can I help you build your media product?
Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social Splice Media co-founder, CEO / Media entrepreneurship coach / #splicebeta / ICFJ Knight Fellow / Student pilot
Seulki Lee @skidolma.bsky.social Independent backpacking journalist since 2011 🎤Korean, English
지금은 서울에 있어요🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Patrick Poon🎐 潘嘉偉 パトリック．プーン patrick.kw.poon@connect.hku.hk @ppoon.bsky.social ☕️ @tsukikagecoffee.bsky.social｜ex- @amnesty.org researcher｜Ex-Visiting Scholar @uniofstandrews.bsky.social｜Board @asianlawyersn.bsky.social｜East Asia Lead @rightstracker.bsky.social｜ @fleursbleues.bsky.social｜Signal: ppoon.01
📍Tokyo
Calum Stuart @calumstuart.bsky.social Journalist and all ‘round word nerd. Subscribe to Currents, a newsletter and podcast series spotlighting human rights defenders in the Asia-Pacific: https://currentsnewsletter.com
Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com Teacher, researcher, internationalist, republican.
tompepinsky.com
Chris Horton 何貴森 @heguisen.bsky.social Taipei-based journalist. Author of Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and its Struggle for Survival (Macmillan, 2025).
Bethany Allen 貝書穎 @bethanyallen.bsky.social China, AI, technology, and authoritarianism. Currently ASPI. Was Axios, Foreign Policy, Yale, Johns Hopkins-Nanjing. Author BEIJING RULES, Financial Times Best Books of 2023. Robert Lewis Watchdog Award, Batten Medal for Courage in Journalism finalist
Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social Historian of colonialism and modern SE Asia @UTU.fi｜🌲 Currently working on transimperial histories of forestry 🌲｜Previously: colonial cities 🏛️ and travel 🚢｜PhD from EUI｜📚 occasionally writes about books and films 🎞️
Jolene Tan @acertainjolene.bsky.social Novelist: AFTER THE INQUIRY / A CERTAIN EXPOSURE
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From Singapore, live in England
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John Nery @jnerynewsstand.bsky.social Journalist/lecturer/author. Host, “In the Public Square with John Nery.” Columnist, “Newsstand.”
Rappler. Ateneo de Manila University. Consortium on Democracy & Disinformation. Asian Center for Journalism. World Justice Project.
johnnery.wordpress.com
Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social China Digital Times | Berkeley
Elaine Pearson @elainepearson.bsky.social Asia Director, Human Rights Watch
Author of Chasing Wrongs and Rights
Emily Feng @emilyzfeng.bsky.social NPR White House correspondent. 10 years in China and Taiwan. Author of Let Only Red Flowers Bloom (Crown 2025) and forthcoming book on Syria (CGR 2026) https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/our-hearts-burned-for-home
Austin Ramzy @austinramzy.bsky.social Wall Street Journal reporter in Hong Kong covering China and the world.
email: austin.ramzy@wsj.com signal: austinramzy.99
Dake Kang @dakekang.bsky.social 中文名：姜大翼｜AP Journalist in Beijing | 美联社北京分社的一位伟大时代的记录者｜你可以用微信联系我（dakekang) 或者电报, Signal, WhatsApp (+1 201 937 9797). 邮箱: dakekang@protonmail.com
Yann Bigant @yannbigant.com Conservation/environment photographer
Birds, wildlife trade, etc. in SEAsia
Video | Fine art photography
DM for assignments
📷📝 SCMP, Dialogue Earth, Mongabay
📍Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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Peiying Loh @hellopeiying.bsky.social From Singapore 🇸🇬 Head & Co-Founder, Kontinentalist. Data storyteller. Chevening Scholar 23’, MSc Data, Inequality and Society at University of Edinburgh 🏴
Pratinav Anil @pratinavanil.bsky.social historian, feuilletonist, clubland habitué, judgemental judge 
Rangoon Film @rangoonfilm.bsky.social Myanmar enthusiasts.
Resto Cruz @restocruz.bsky.social Social anthropologist of kinship, siblingship, social and geographical mobility, generation, inheritance, Philippines and Southeast Asia, and the UK.
📍Edinburgh
New Mandala @newmandala.bsky.social A forum for anecdote, analysis and new perspectives on Southeast Asia since 2006. Want to contribute? See: https://www.newmandala.org/contributing-to-nm/
Liam Gammon @liamgammon.bsky.social Research Fellow, Australian National University. Mainly Indonesian politics. Editor at @newmandala.bsky.social
James Lin @jamestwotree.bsky.social Historian of Taiwan & the World. Associate Professor, University of Washington Jackson School.
Author of In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan (University of California Press, 2025)
Website: ocf.io/jameslin
he/him
Victor Seow @eastasiascitech.bsky.social Historian of technology, science, and industry @ Harvard. Author of CARBON TECHNOCRACY. Currently writing a history of industrial psychology in China. More about my work here: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow
Darren Byler @dbyler.bsky.social Anthropologist at Simon Fraser University. Author of Terror Capitalism (Duke 2022) and In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony (Columbia 2021).
Erik Linstrum @eriklinstrum.bsky.social Historian of Britain, empire, and decolonization at the University of Virginia. Author of AGE OF EMERGENCY and RULING MINDS. 2026 Guggenheim Fellow. Working on fascism and empire. Writing in Literary Review, Jacobin, New Republic, History Today, etc.
Daniel York Loh @danielyorkloh.bsky.social Writer - Performer - Filmmaker - Musician
Associate Artistic Director - Kakilang https://www.kakilang.org.uk/ https://linktr.ee/DanielYorkLoh
Matthew Hurst @mrmhurst.bsky.social PhD @york.ac.uk on the influence of Hong Kong people upon the handover • Studentship from WRoCAH • Graduate: @ox.ac.uk @manchester.ac.uk
Jeppe Mulich @jmulich.bsky.social Teaching history and politics at City St George's. Work on Asia and the Caribbean. Too much time thinking about RPGs. Currently Brighton, previously Hong Kong, New York, Copenhagen.
Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social Emmy-nominated reporter. Russia Today called me “notorious,” China kicked me out. Formerly Asia, Doha, California, more 🌏. Author of graphic novel YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION out now!
Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social Bloomberg News Global Defense Editor. Novelist, aviation geek, bartender, dad. Ex-NYT, Reuters. Grew up in Midwest, moved to Mideast. Views my own. Wrote a fun book about Chinese missiles: https://tinyurl.com/2p94pay6
Ad astra per aspera
China Media Project @chinamediaproject.bsky.social The CMP is an independent research project studying the Chinese media landscape within the PRC and globally, as well as the CCP's media and political discourse.- R @randymulyanto.bsky.social @randymulyanto.bsky.social
Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social Global Expression, FIRE. Book: Authoritarians in the Academy, @hopkinspress.bsky.social (August 2025). https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53835/authoritarians-academy
Signal: sarahemclaugh.01. Go birds.
elizabeth lacouture 藍雲博士 @elacouture.bsky.social she/her/她/佢, feminist historian. sinophone, hong kong, east asia. 性别研究. retweets and likes are not endorsements
Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social Teaches history at UCI, writes on China for the TLS, LARB, Dissent, WSJ, & other venues, 1st book on East AND Southeast Asia came out in June from Columbia Global Reports https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-milk-tea-alliance
Clement Tan 陳永強 @clemtan.bsky.social Assistant Foreign Editor, The Straits Times
All things political economy. Now in Singapore, via Beijing, Hong Kong, DC and NYC. Former Reuters, Bloomberg reporter. Always trying to write a book.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/clemtan
Damon Pang @damonpang.bsky.social Journalist from Hong Kong
Leta Hong Fincher洪理达 @letahongfincher.bsky.social Author of LEFTOVER WOMEN: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China and BETRAYING BIG BROTHER: The Feminist Awakening in China. https://letahongfincher.com
Zoe Low @zoelow.bsky.social Fact-check editor at AFP Fact Check. Hong Kong. Penang native and food lover at heart. she/her. views my own.
Ilaria Maria Sala @ilariamariasala.bsky.social words @guardian @zolima_hongkong @chinafile @nytimes @lettera_22 A ceramist in HK, a Qianlong enthusiast, a tea sipper. Also botany, birds and languages, please. Big on typos. Author of L’Eclissi di Hong Kong, add editore
Follow me on IG: @ilariamariasala
Jane Manchun Wong @wongmjane.com 
Drew Pavlou @drewpavlou.bsky.social 
Badiucao巴丢草 @badiucao.bsky.social CCP‘s least favorite artist/Cartoonist/Activist/Human rights/Anti-racism/ IG @badiucao
/ DM for collect original art / badiucao.com & http://patreon.com/badiucao
Tim Culpan @tculpan.bsky.social Founder, Culpium.
Award-winning Technology Columnist and Independent Journalist. Taipei, Taiwan.
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Katerina Ang @katerina.bsky.social An enterprise editor at Reuters. Formerly WSJ & Washington Post. Interested in globalization, Asia’s future and le monde francophone. #MUFC, #MUWomen and #USWNT hype woman.
Bill Bishop @billbishop.bsky.social Writes Sinocism, @niubi on Twitter, https://sinocism.com 
lokman tsui @lokman.org writer, (recovering) academic, amateur activist. teach at graduate institute of journalism, national taiwan university. fellow @citizenlab.ca.
he/him. writing a personal history of home and authoritarianism.
Holmes Chan @holmeschan.bsky.social Hong Kong correspondent for AFP. Mostly reports on politics, law and culture
Fergus Ryan @fergus.bsky.social Wordcel, aspiring prompt engineer & China analyst.
📨 Tips & anon feedback: https://www.admonymous.co/fergus-ryan
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William Nee @williamnee.bsky.social Senior Program Manager at the National Endowment for Democracy. Interests: IR, foreign policy, human rights, Catholicism, religious dialogue, business and human rights, trail running. Former Amnesty, CHRD, CLB; HKU & CU Buffs
Zichen Wang @zichen.bsky.social Mid-career MPP '25 candidate @PrincetonSPIA. Newsletter
Pekingnology www.pekingnology.com on Substack & part of NON-GOVT Center for China and Globalization (CCG). @xhnews alum. What else is there to say?
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social Hong Kong. Camping in the hills because the Murray Barracks were full
Ai-Men Lau 劉羿雯 @aimenlau.bsky.social 🇭🇰🇲🇾🇨🇦 | Information Operations and Transnational Repression Research | formerly at Alliance Canada Hong Kong and Doublethink Lab | she/elle | views are my fault
Ryan Ho Kilpatrick 何松濤 @ryanhk.blue Executive Editor, Hong Kong Free Press | Former Managing Editor of the China Media Project | Before that: TaiwanPlus, The Washington Post, TIME, dpa
📍 Hong Kong
Chung Ching Kwong 鄺頌晴 @chungchingkwong.bsky.social Cat Mom | IPAC Senior Analyst | PhD Candidate in Law on Data Protection and Data Transfer | Columnist at WamS
Views are my own
Dave Coulson @cheesindave.bsky.social Internationally published photographer and Hong Konger who now lives in Edinburgh, Scotland
www.davecoulson.co.uk
WenHao @wenhao.bsky.social Freelance journalist
Wenhao.substack.com
Rachel Cheung @rachelcheung.bsky.social Hong Kong-based staff writer with The Wire China. Formerly at VICE World News and SCMP.
Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social "Where everything was as fresh as the bright blue sky"
Was @xinwenxiaojie on the app formerly known as Twitter.
Hongkonger, South Londoner.
Teaching journalism at City St George's, University of London.
Bang Xiao @bang.xiao.au Editor, Chinese | Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
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Katharin Tai 戴恺琳 @ktai.bsky.social Probably somewhere in an archive near berlin. phd-ing @ MIT Political Science on Chinese politics, technology policy, bureaucracy & GDR computing. Also at mstdn.social/@ktai
C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social This is Catherine. I write about China.
Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social Editor at @newbloommag.net, writes @thediplomat.com @flaminghydra.com, non-resident fellow at University of Nottingham's Taiwan Research Hub, Taiwan Foreign Correspondents' Club board, freelance journalist, translator, DJ. Author of Taipei at Daybreak
Kevin Yam 任建峰 @kevinkfyam.bsky.social @kevinkfyam on Twitter.
PhD candidate, Melbourne Law School. Senior Fellow @georgetowncal.bsky.social. Activist/ex-lawyer, #HongKong. Cricket tragic. AFL Hawks fan. Foodie. Views my own.
Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org Scrutable Occidental, erstwhile 北漂, quondam translator, Ming/Qing fiction enjoyer, congenital Philadelphian, escaped academic, MLIS aspirant, 鏟屎官 (二等). Cynicism makes you an easy mark. Signal: @bokane.1644.
http://www.burninghou.se
Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social Radical left perspectives from Hong Kong, Asia, and its diasporas
www.lausancollective.com
Louisa Lim @louisalim.bsky.social Author of Indelible City & The People’s Republic of Amnesia, Host of The Masterclass & Little Red Podcast
Antony Dapiran @antd.bsky.social Writer/Lawyer/Photographer, author of “City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong”. www.antonydapiran.com
Tamar Herman @tamarherman.com Writer. K-pop & ent biz reporter. Author. She/Her. Published in Billboard, NME, Forbes, Variety, & many more. Have a day job, will not be here 24/7 because I love myself more than I love engagement bait.
Newsletter: Notesonkpop.com.
wilfred chan @wchan.bsky.social wilfredchan.net
karen cheung @karenklcheung.bsky.social writer / the impossible city: a hong kong memoir
Yenni Kwok @yennikwok.bsky.social @mongabay.com Past: @hongkongfp.com HKU @factcheck.afp.com @time.com @nytimes.com Storyful, @cnn.com, SCMP, etc. 🐦: yennikwok 🧵: yenni_kwok
Chong Ja Ian @chongjaian.bsky.social Political scientist from 🇸🇬. Works on security & foreign policy in NE & SE, major power competition. AcademiaSG co-editor. Non-Resident Scholar, Carnegie China. Currently teaches at the National University of Singapore. Comments mine alone.
Anton Hur @antonhur.com Translator, bilingual author, Korean citizen. TOWARD ETERNITY (HarperVia), <하지 말라고는 안 했잖아요?> (어크로스). Repped by Safae El-Ouahabi at RCW. He/him.
🔗: antonhur.com
Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social 👩🏻🏫 Korean film, pop culture, theatre & performance @arizonastateuni.bsky.social
📚 Beyond the Sewol (U of Hawaii Press, Sept 2025) & K-Pop Fandom (@uofmpress.bsky.social, Feb 2026)
📧 areumjeong@gmail.com
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