Oliver Slow
@oliver-slow.bsky.social
BBC Wales Journalist | Author of Return of the Junta, on #Myanmar military
Jakarta-Yangon-Bangkok-London-Bristol
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/return-of-the-junta-9781350289628/
Jakarta-Yangon-Bangkok-London-Bristol
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/return-of-the-junta-9781350289628/
The BBC is launching a news service in #Myanmar, replacing the satellite video channel for Voice of America, which has been halted by Donald Trump’s cuts.
BBC News Burmese reach quadrupled in the week after the devastating recent earthquake.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
BBC News Burmese reach quadrupled in the week after the devastating recent earthquake.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
BBC launches satellite news channel in Myanmar after Trump silences VOA
Corporation responds to ‘urgent need’ following earthquake by taking over Voice of America’s former channel
www.theguardian.com
April 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The BBC is launching a news service in #Myanmar, replacing the satellite video channel for Voice of America, which has been halted by Donald Trump’s cuts.
BBC News Burmese reach quadrupled in the week after the devastating recent earthquake.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
BBC News Burmese reach quadrupled in the week after the devastating recent earthquake.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
Journalist Hanthar Nyein, arrested a month after the #Myanmar military coup, has been released from prison having served his sentence for incitement.
myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...
myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...
Myanmar journalist freed after serving full sentence in Yangon
Military authorities released Kamayut Media’s Hanthar Nyein and 22 political prisoners in various parts of the country as part of a broader amnesty
myanmar-now.org
April 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Journalist Hanthar Nyein, arrested a month after the #Myanmar military coup, has been released from prison having served his sentence for incitement.
myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...
myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...
Reposted by Oliver Slow
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
April 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
Reposted by Oliver Slow
This is a beautiful and fitting tribute to the fierce and fabulous journalist Gwen Robinson. Gwen was a force of nature, an excellent editor and deeply cared about issues across Asia, especially Myanmar. RIP - we will miss you, Gwen. asia.nikkei.com/Life-Arts/Ob... via @nikkei-asia.com
Gwen Robinson, a driving force in Asia journalism, dies at 65
Trailblazing correspondent and mentor instrumental in shaping Nikkei Asia's global presence
asia.nikkei.com
March 31, 2025 at 1:14 AM
This is a beautiful and fitting tribute to the fierce and fabulous journalist Gwen Robinson. Gwen was a force of nature, an excellent editor and deeply cared about issues across Asia, especially Myanmar. RIP - we will miss you, Gwen. asia.nikkei.com/Life-Arts/Ob... via @nikkei-asia.com
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A sample of books on Myanmar from foreigners since the coup include former Frontier journalist, @oliver-slow.bsky.social Return of the Junta: ‘Why Myanmar’s Military Must Go Back to the Barracks’, published by Bloomsbury in January 2023
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/return-of...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/return-of...
Return of the Junta
On the first day of February 2021, Myanmar's military grabbed power in a coup d'etat, ending a decade of reforms that were supposed to break the shackles of mil…
www.bloomsbury.com
February 27, 2025 at 8:51 AM
A sample of books on Myanmar from foreigners since the coup include former Frontier journalist, @oliver-slow.bsky.social Return of the Junta: ‘Why Myanmar’s Military Must Go Back to the Barracks’, published by Bloomsbury in January 2023
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/return-of...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/return-of...
"Day in and day out, I was sent to breadlines, to relief bureaus, to cold-water flats; each morning I called on cringing, abject humans who sat and stared at me as I goaded them with questions."
The brilliant Joseph Mitchell, on a Christmas in New York in 1933.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/193...
The brilliant Joseph Mitchell, on a Christmas in New York in 1933.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/193...
A Crowdfunded Christmas
In 1933, Joseph Mitchell wrote about a couple living in a cave in Central Park. Then the money started to arrive.
www.newyorker.com
January 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
"Day in and day out, I was sent to breadlines, to relief bureaus, to cold-water flats; each morning I called on cringing, abject humans who sat and stared at me as I goaded them with questions."
The brilliant Joseph Mitchell, on a Christmas in New York in 1933.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/193...
The brilliant Joseph Mitchell, on a Christmas in New York in 1933.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/193...
“To the person who reads this… I hope things are much better now.”
Note hidden in door panel from just after World War Two tells of food shortages, daily power cuts and the country “in a hell of a state”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Note hidden in door panel from just after World War Two tells of food shortages, daily power cuts and the country “in a hell of a state”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
World War Two: Child's memoir found on door panel after almost 80 years
It details how a lack of power, the cold winter, and food rationing were creating struggles.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 12, 2025 at 10:21 AM
“To the person who reads this… I hope things are much better now.”
Note hidden in door panel from just after World War Two tells of food shortages, daily power cuts and the country “in a hell of a state”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Note hidden in door panel from just after World War Two tells of food shortages, daily power cuts and the country “in a hell of a state”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A 2025 #books thread that I'll try (and probably fail) and keep updated.
Powerfully written, dreadfully sad story on a little-known demographic - the Maltese community living in Cardiff's Tiger Bay.
Powerfully written, dreadfully sad story on a little-known demographic - the Maltese community living in Cardiff's Tiger Bay.
January 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
A 2025 #books thread that I'll try (and probably fail) and keep updated.
Powerfully written, dreadfully sad story on a little-known demographic - the Maltese community living in Cardiff's Tiger Bay.
Powerfully written, dreadfully sad story on a little-known demographic - the Maltese community living in Cardiff's Tiger Bay.
Lim Kimya, a former opposition #Cambodia MP, has been shot dead in central Bangkok.
He was one of few ex-CNRP members to have stayed behind in Cambodia after the party was dissolved.
www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/gen...
He was one of few ex-CNRP members to have stayed behind in Cambodia after the party was dissolved.
www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/gen...
Former Cambodian MP shot dead in Bangkok
A former Cambodian opposition MP was shot dead by a motorcyclist near Wat Bowonniwet Vihara in Phra Nakhon district of Bangkok on Tuesday evening.
www.bangkokpost.com
January 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Lim Kimya, a former opposition #Cambodia MP, has been shot dead in central Bangkok.
He was one of few ex-CNRP members to have stayed behind in Cambodia after the party was dissolved.
www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/gen...
He was one of few ex-CNRP members to have stayed behind in Cambodia after the party was dissolved.
www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/gen...
"For us, it's jomo (joy of missing out), not fomo (fear of missing out)."
Took a look at the Dull Men's Club, for those who happily embrace the boring things in life.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Took a look at the Dull Men's Club, for those who happily embrace the boring things in life.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Dull Men’s Club: The 'anti-influencers' honouring poles and benches
Adherents say they are pushing back against “moreitis”- the need to do greater and grander things.
www.bbc.com
January 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
"For us, it's jomo (joy of missing out), not fomo (fear of missing out)."
Took a look at the Dull Men's Club, for those who happily embrace the boring things in life.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Took a look at the Dull Men's Club, for those who happily embrace the boring things in life.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"When the families of low-ranking soldiers move into military compounds, we learn that we have to swallow all our resentment."
There is growing evidence that that the #Myanmar junta is refusing to pay pensions and compensation to fallen soldiers' families.
www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/it-was-al...
There is growing evidence that that the #Myanmar junta is refusing to pay pensions and compensation to fallen soldiers' families.
www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/it-was-al...
‘It was all lies’: Myanmar’s military widows denied pensions and payouts
There is growing evidence that the cash-strapped junta is refusing to pay the pensions and compensation that soldiers’ families are entitled to when their husbands or sons die on duty.
www.frontiermyanmar.net
January 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"When the families of low-ranking soldiers move into military compounds, we learn that we have to swallow all our resentment."
There is growing evidence that that the #Myanmar junta is refusing to pay pensions and compensation to fallen soldiers' families.
www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/it-was-al...
There is growing evidence that that the #Myanmar junta is refusing to pay pensions and compensation to fallen soldiers' families.
www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/it-was-al...
Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president who has died aged 100, had a life-long love affair with Wales - mainly fuelled by his passion for legendary poet Dylan Thomas.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Why Jimmy Carter had a life-long love affair with Wales
The former US president, an avid reader of the works of poet Dylan Thomas, visited Wales multiple times.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 30, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president who has died aged 100, had a life-long love affair with Wales - mainly fuelled by his passion for legendary poet Dylan Thomas.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The court heard of the "bleak and desolate" upbringings of those who killed Mason Rist and Max Dixon in Bristol.
The 15-year-old now had enough food in custody, so was growing in height.
Riley Toliver, 18, had only started to read and write since being in custody.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The 15-year-old now had enough food in custody, so was growing in height.
Riley Toliver, 18, had only started to read and write since being in custody.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Max and Mason: How boys' mistaken identity murders broke hearts
BBC Social Affairs Correspondent Fiona Lamdin sat through the case that often stunned the courtroom.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 22, 2024 at 3:02 PM
The court heard of the "bleak and desolate" upbringings of those who killed Mason Rist and Max Dixon in Bristol.
The 15-year-old now had enough food in custody, so was growing in height.
Riley Toliver, 18, had only started to read and write since being in custody.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The 15-year-old now had enough food in custody, so was growing in height.
Riley Toliver, 18, had only started to read and write since being in custody.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A tad late to this...
BBC Wales journalist, previously in London with World & UK desks.
Before that reported in Asia, mainly Myanmar. Lived in Indonesia, Thailand.
Wrote a book on Myanmar's military, which I'd love for you to check out if you haven't already - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/return-of...
BBC Wales journalist, previously in London with World & UK desks.
Before that reported in Asia, mainly Myanmar. Lived in Indonesia, Thailand.
Wrote a book on Myanmar's military, which I'd love for you to check out if you haven't already - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/return-of...
December 19, 2024 at 9:31 PM
A tad late to this...
BBC Wales journalist, previously in London with World & UK desks.
Before that reported in Asia, mainly Myanmar. Lived in Indonesia, Thailand.
Wrote a book on Myanmar's military, which I'd love for you to check out if you haven't already - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/return-of...
BBC Wales journalist, previously in London with World & UK desks.
Before that reported in Asia, mainly Myanmar. Lived in Indonesia, Thailand.
Wrote a book on Myanmar's military, which I'd love for you to check out if you haven't already - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/return-of...