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Laura Bicker

Laura Bicker

Seoul Correspondent at BBC News

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Laura Bicker
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The West says China makes too much. Its workers disagree - BBC

Migrants are caught in China’s manufacturing battles with the West, as Beijing tries to save its economy.
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China's ageing population: A demographic crisis is unfolding for Xi...

The country is running out of time to build enough of a fund to care for its growing number of elderly.
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Cambodia: Fast fashion helps fuel blazing kilns where workers faint...

How hot is too hot to work? The BBC visits Cambodia’s sweltering brick kilns to find out.
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China and Taiwan: Love and longing across the strait - BBC

Beijing has made its position clear on Taiwan, but what do the country’s citizens want?
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A restless Gen Z is reshaping the Chinese Dream - BBC

Millions of young Chinese face an uncertain future in the world’s second-largest economy.
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US denies Cold War with China in historic Vietnam visit - BBC

The US and Vietnam are becoming better friends - a troubling prospect for China.
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Drug traffickers smuggling crystal meth past South East Asia securi...

Gangs in South East Asia have learnt to evade authorities to sell crystal meth overseas, a report says.

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Sierra Madre: Fighting to save what's left of a vital rainforest - BBC

Around 90% of the Sierra Madre, which protects the Philippines from the worst of climate change, is gone.
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The Philippines' food worries amid Ukraine war and typhoons - BBC

The Philippines is grappling with food insecurity amid natural disasters and global price rises.
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Philippines sees a pandemic boom in child sex abuse - BBC

Lockdowns and school closures left children at home with poor parents, desperate to make money.
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Thailand attack: ‘I am full of pain and anger' - BBC

An ex-policeman killed 37 people, 23 of them children, at a nursery before killing himself and his family.
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Typhoon Noru: Five rescuers dead as typhoon hits Philippines - BBC

Heavy rainfall and strong winds continue to lash the country even as the once super typhoon weakened.
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Beatings and forced abortions: Life in a North Korea prison - BBC

A new investigation sheds more light on human rights violations in North Korean prisons.
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As winter looms, reports of starvation in North Korea

North Korea’s leader has compared the current situation to the terrible famine of the 1990s.
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Drugs, arms, and terror: A high-profile defector on Kim's North Kor...

A former colonel describes a leadership making cash by any means, from drug factories to illegal arms deals.
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Why Kim Jong-un is waging war on slang, jeans and foreign films - BBC

A sweeping new law makes the smuggling of foreign news, films or drama punishable by death.
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North Korea enslaved South Korean prisoners of war in coal mines - BBC

A report describes how prisoners of war are used as slave labour to generate money for the regime.
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'I thought maybe I would die': S Korea's delivery drivers demand ch...

Families in South Korea are reeling after the deaths of 14 delivery workers this year from what they call overwork.
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Coronavirus: How South Korea is teaching empty classrooms - BBC

South Korea’s children have gone back to school - but coronavirus means class looks very different.
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Parasite: What the Oscar win means for Korean cinema - BBC

The film, directed by Bong Joon-ho, is the first non-English language film to take the top prize.
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North Korean missile and Kim Jong-un's 'Christmas gift' decision - BBC

With no shift in sight from either side the coming weeks may be crucial for US-North Korean diplomacy.