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Larissa Gao

China, Hong Kong, London

Asia Desk Fellow Reporter at NBC News

Writer at Freelance

@NBCNews Social Newsgathering Reporter | Past: NBC inaugural Asia Desk Fellow | @JMSCHKU MJ 💚 | @mujschool BJ 🐯| Story Ideas: [email protected]

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  • 1 month ago | nbcnews.com | Patrick Smith |Larissa Gao

    A Minnesota woman has been charged with the murder of her husband in the southern African nation of Angola last year while the couple and their five children were there on a Christian missionary trip, their church has confirmed. Beau Shroyer, 44, from Detroit Lakes, was found dead in a vehicle in Thienjo, a town in southern Angola, in October. His wife, Jackie Shroyer, was arrested in connection with the death in November and is accused of forming a murder-for-hire plot.

  • Jan 18, 2025 | nbcnews.com | Mithil Aggarwal |Jennifer Jett |Larissa Gao |Janis Mackey Frayer

    HONG KONG — For most people in the U.S. and China, what they hear about each other’s countries comes mostly from their governments and the media. Now they are learning directly from each other, at least for now. The excitement is palpable on the Chinese social media platform RedNote, or Xiaohongshu (“Little Red Book”) as it’s known in Chinese, after a wave of American users set up accounts in recent days.

  • Oct 22, 2024 | nbcnews.com | Larissa Gao

    Oct. 22, 2024, 1:47 PM UTCIt all started with a kiss. K-pop star Seunghan was banished for almost a year from his boy band, RIIZE, amid backlash over leaked photos showing him kissing a womanwhen he was a trainee — behavior considered unacceptable by some fans who expect their idols to remain single and have wholesome images.

  • Jun 25, 2024 | yahoo.com | Larissa Gao |Peter Guo

    HONG KONG — Giant pandas will soon be on their way to the U.S. from China, as Beijing resumes the “panda diplomacy” that has sent the beloved bears around the world for decades in an effort to boost foreign relations and project Chinese soft power. But not everyone is happy about it.

  • May 24, 2024 | nbcnews.com | Yuliya Talmazan |Caroline Radnofsky |Larissa Gao

    May 25, 2024, 6:00 AM UTCBodies lie in the pockmarked streets, smoke billows from the ruins of homes, fences sit flattened: A new video offers a rare view inside a front-line city that has taken on the brunt of the fighting as Russia presses on with its offensive in northern Ukraine.

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'You started this': Attacks on Alawites in Syria highlight deep divisions https://t.co/x7AP4CRtdP via @nbcnews

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U.S. woman charged with murdering husband while on Christian mission to Angola https://t.co/noG51sBxgS via @nbcnews