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In South Korea’s war panic economy, sales thrive on nuclear angst

Gas masks, hazmat suits and emergency rations all can be had for a price. Or, for the upper classes, your own personal bunker.

Aug 21, 2018

In South Korea’s war panic economy, sales thrive on nuclear angst

Aug 21, 2018

Patrick Winn

How North Korean hackers became the world’s greatest bank robbers

The Reconnaissance General Bureau, North Korea’s equivalent to the CIA, has trained up the world’s greatest bank-robbing crews. In just the…

May 16, 2018

How North Korean hackers became the world’s greatest bank robbers

May 16, 2018

Patrick Winn

A US-style drug war brings a terrible cost: Thai prisons packed full of women

But drug policy liberalizers are convinced that in coming years, Thailand’s US-backed drug war will recede and a more merciful approach…

Apr 9, 2018

A US-style drug war brings a terrible cost: Thai prisons packed full of women

Apr 9, 2018

Patrick Winn

From tyranny to reality TV: Meet the celebrity defector women of North Korea

South Korea is transfixed by new television programs that put young and manicured North Koreans in the spotlight.

Oct 9, 2017

From tyranny to reality TV: Meet the celebrity defector women of North Korea

Oct 9, 2017

Patrick Winn
in
GlobalPost Investigations

Inside the Philippines’ women-run crime ring selling abortion elixirs

For poor Filipinas with unwanted pregnancies, this is what reproductive care looks like.

Aug 23, 2017

Inside the Philippines’ women-run crime ring selling abortion elixirs

Aug 23, 2017

Patrick Winn
in
GlobalPost Investigations

Meth’s new frontier: The marshlands of Bangladesh

Annual seizures of meth in the country have gone up 80,000 percent — yes, eighty thousand percent — in nine years.

Apr 26, 2017

Meth’s new frontier: The marshlands of Bangladesh

Apr 26, 2017

Patrick Winn
in
GlobalPost Investigations

Myanmar’s army is tormenting Muslims with a brutal rape campaign

Myanmar’s troops are systematically raping Muslim women — a tactic seemingly designed to terrorize the Rohingya population into fleeing the…

Feb 8, 2017

Myanmar’s army is tormenting Muslims with a brutal rape campaign

Feb 8, 2017

Patrick Winn
in
GlobalPost Investigations

Climate change, meet your apocalyptic twin: oceans poisoned by plastic

How throw-away plastic could alter humanity as we know it.

Dec 14, 2016

Climate change, meet your apocalyptic twin: oceans poisoned by plastic

Dec 14, 2016

Patrick Winn
in
GlobalPost Investigations

Mock stars: Myanmar’s pop plagiarists

In Myanmar, plagiarism isn’t a sporadic indulgence among top performers. It is the engine that drives the nation’s pop music industry.

Aug 2, 2016

Mock stars: Myanmar’s pop plagiarists

Aug 2, 2016

Patrick Winn
in
GlobalPost Investigations

This is what Oppression Economics looks like

Video: Forsaken in Myanmar.

Aug 2, 2016

Aug 2, 2016

Patrick Winn

Patrick Winn

Asia correspondent for PRI and GlobalPost Investigations• RFK Award Winner • Author of HELLO, SHADOWLANDS, available on Amazon: goo.gl/c5FgjT

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