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Reporting Cyclone Mocha

Reporting from the heart of the cyclone in Myanmar and Bangladesh.

Â鶹Éç Bengali's Shahnewaj Rocky shares the experiences of the fishermen of Teknaf in Bangladesh following Cyclone Mocha. Plus Â鶹Éç Burmese Editor Soe Win Than shares his reporting team's experience of being in Rakhine State's capital Sittwe as the cyclone made landfall.

Thai voters ‘big leaps’
Thai social media has been full of people’s photos of themselves taking big leaps after the election success of the Move Forward party, as Â鶹Éç Thai’s Tossapol Chaisamritpol explains.

LGBT extortion in Nigeria
The story behind Â鶹Éç Africa Eye's investigation into how members of the LGBT community in Nigeria are being targeted by criminal gangs who pose as potential dates on popular apps, only to extort, beat and even kidnap them. Journalist Ian Wafula followed the story.

Art, spoons and defecting from North Korea
Â鶹Éç Korean's Damin Jung tells us about North Korean defector Oh Sung-cheol who was a propaganda poster artist in North Korea before defecting to South Korea.

(Photo: Aftermath of Cyclone Mocha in Myanmar. Credit: Win Kyaw Thu/Â鶹Éç Burmese)

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