Rupert Wingfield Hayes
Tokyo Correspondent at BBC
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes. BBC Asia Correspondent, based in Taipei. Previously Tokyo, Jerusalem, Moscow, Beijing.
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Oct 13, 2024 |
ca.news.yahoo.com | Rupert Wingfield Hayes |Ayeshea Perera
China on Monday launched new military drills off the coast of Taiwan in what it described as "punishment" for a speech given by its president William Lai, when he vowed to "resist annexation" or "encroachment upon our sovereignty". China claims the self-governing island of Taiwan as its own and its president Xi Jinping has vowed to retake it by force if necessary. Taiwan said it detected 34 naval vessels and 125 aircraft in formation around the island on Monday.
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Oct 8, 2024 |
aol.com | Rupert Wingfield Hayes |Yvette Tan
October 8, 2024 at 4:33 AMKim (R) and Putin (L) toasted their friendship when they met in North Korea in June [Getty Images]North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a birthday message to Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling him his "closest comrade". Kim, congratulating Putin on his 72nd birthday, added that relations between both countries would be raised to a new level.
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Aug 15, 2024 |
yahoo.com | Rupert Wingfield Hayes
Calls to denounce “die hard" Taiwanese secessionists, a tipline to report them and punishments that could include the death penalty for “ringleaders” – Beijing’s familiar rhetoric against Taiwan is turning dangerously real. The democratically-governed island has grown used to China’s claims. Even the planes and ships that test its defences have become a routine provocation. But the recent moves to criminalise support for it are unnerving Taiwanese who live and work in China, and those back home.
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Jul 24, 2024 |
msn.com | Rupert Wingfield Hayes |Fan Wang
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Jul 24, 2024 |
yahoo.com | Rupert Wingfield Hayes |Fan Wang
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes and Fan Wang - in Taipei and SingaporeJuly 24, 2024 at 12:55 AM·2 min readTaiwan is bracing for the arrival of powerful Typhoon Gaemi which is expected to make landfall on the island's North East coast in the next few hours. The storm - the first typhoon of the season to affect the island - has led to the cancellation of parts of its largest annual military drills.
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There’s a very simple question for all the Beijing propagandists pushing this line - why are all non Chinese owned platforms banned in China? All.
This is why the U.S. is banning TikTok or anything from China. Just simple chats with average Chinese people on Xiaohongshu (RedNote) made numerous people in the U.S. aware of how toxic their system is. https://t.co/pIkpRqFlWW
I felt the same when I went to New Zealand. 🤣🤣🤣 - I didn’t actually, it was lovely. But going to Aukland did’t make me think, “not as fancy as Sydney or Melbourne”, because it’s a different place. I’m
Aww, I felt the same way. So many Chinese mainland friends kept telling me: “You will love Taiwan so much, it’s so nice” etc etc. I held off going for so long to keep it as something to look forward to… I was so disappointed.
The greatest Japanese invention most of the world still hasn't heard of. It has long struck me as odd that Japanese washlet toilets didn't sweep the world like so much other Japanese technology - and still haven't. Although slowly slowly it seems to be happening.
"The great revolution in Japan’s toilet culture came in 1980, with the release of the Washlet." https://t.co/Y9tuuHAty6
