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Newsroom · Meet the team

Journalists with skin in the game.

An independent newsroom with editors in Shanghai, New Delhi, Tokyo, Seoul, Hanoi and Singapore. The people covering Asia from Asia.

Mei-Ling Chen

China Correspondent

Shanghai-based correspondent covering Chinese politics, economy, cross-Strait relations and the Party apparatus.

92 published stories

Rajesh Iyer

India Bureau Chief

New Delhi bureau chief covering Indian politics, the south Asian neighbourhood and Indo-Pacific diplomacy.

17 published stories

Akio Tanaka

Japan Correspondent

Tokyo-based correspondent covering Japanese politics, economy and the region from a Japanese vantage.

25 published stories

Ji-Woo Park

Korea Correspondent

Seoul-based correspondent covering the peninsula, from Blue House politics to North Korea.

19 published stories

Nguyen Van Linh

Southeast Asia Correspondent

Hanoi-based correspondent covering ASEAN, the Mekong, the South China Sea and the archipelagic region.

49 published stories

Priti Sharma

Economy & Markets Editor

Mumbai-based editor covering Asian markets, the rupee, the yuan, central banks and regional supply chains.

101 published stories

Kenji Watanabe

Politics & Diplomacy

Covers the politics of the Indo-Pacific, from Washington DC back to Tokyo, Seoul and Taipei.

118 published stories

Huang Wei

Security & Defense

Covers the PLA, the South China Sea, regional defense spending and the emerging security architecture of the Indo-Pacific.

102 published stories