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Evan Erickson

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Covers:  Fisheries, salmon, rural Alaska
Freelance journalist based in Yangon. Travels on short notice.
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People flock to the Toksook Bay Blackberry Festival to dance the night away

People flock to the Toksook Bay Blackberry Festival to dance the night away

KYUK — Many people had intended to pick blackberries during the festival, but on Saturday even the geese weren't willing to brave 30 mile an hour winds and heavy rains to harvest them.
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Late spring brings bumper crop of salmonberries to Western Alaska

Late spring brings bumper crop of salmonberries to Western Alaska

KYUK — While many families traveled from Bethel to their favorite picking spots, the salmonberries were abundant even within the city limits this year.
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An Alaska district aligns its school year with traditional subsistence harvests

An Alaska district aligns its school year with traditional subsistence harvests

NPR — Three Alaska Native Villages have changed their school calendar so that students now can take part in things like the fall moose hunt and the spring migratory bird harvest.
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State opens commercial fishing on the Kuskokwim River to one person

State opens commercial fishing on the Kuskokwim River to one person

KYUK — After nearly 50 years spent as a commercial fisherman on the river, Fran Reich is the only catcher/seller permit holder that remains.
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Jacks, and the occasional jill, will likely remain a familiar sight on the Kuskokwim River

Jacks, and the occasional jill, will likely remain a familiar sight on the Kuskokwim River

KYUK — It's not just salmon runs that are getting smaller, but some of the chinook salmon that do return are becoming smaller as well.
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With as many as 30,000 sockeye salmon passing Bethel each day, dipnets are catching on

With as many as 30,000 sockeye salmon passing Bethel each day, dipnets are catching on

KYUK — Amid limited openers, one alternative gear type has proven effective for capturing the abundant reds.
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Community comes together to welcome thousands of smelt to Bethel

Community comes together to welcome thousands of smelt to Bethel

KYUK — The run marks the start of the fishing season on the Kuskokwim River.
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Nat Kadaw - Myanmar's carnival of souls makes its return

Nat Kadaw - Myanmar's carnival of souls makes its return

Mizzima — In a country wracked by decades of ethnic conflict and civil war, most notably the large-scale persecution of Muslim Rohingya people, millions across Myanmar continue to worship two Muslim brothers of Indian origin, whose spirits, or "nats", are summoned by cross-dressing, spirit-possessed soothsayers.
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Convicted - 'So this is Myanmar,' says defence lawyer as Reuters journalists jailed

Convicted - 'So this is Myanmar,' says defence lawyer as Reuters journalists jailed

Mizzima — In a bitter ending for a trial that has galvanized advocates for press freedom across the world, two Reuters journalists have been found guilty of violating Myanmar's colonial-era Official Secrets Act and sentenced in Yangon to seven years in prison with hard labour on Monday. Defence attorneys said that they plan to launch an appeal as soon as possible.
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Life infusion - Water project offers hope to farmers in Myanmar's central dry zone

Life infusion - Water project offers hope to farmers in Myanmar's central dry zone

Mizzima — Taking shelter from the midday heat in a bamboo hut among the paddies and pulses of Myanmar's central Dry Zone, it is easy to drift back in time and imagine what life must have been like in the Kingdom of Pagan 1,000 years earlier. Then the farmer who has invited you there for tea pulls out his smartphone and a diesel water pump fires up in the distance, and the fantasy abruptly ends.
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From cell inmate to author - Kyaw Zwa Moe reflects on 30 years in the 'pursuit of truth'

From cell inmate to author - Kyaw Zwa Moe reflects on 30 years in the 'pursuit of truth'

Mizzima — Kyaw Zwa Moe is not somebody who comes across as a hardened criminal upon first meeting, despite being one of thousands swept up following Burma's 1988 pro-democracy uprising and left to fend for themselves in the country's squalid prisons.
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Use of digital forensics raises questions in Reuters case

Use of digital forensics raises questions in Reuters case

mizzima.com — While the case that recently went to trial against jailed Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo has revolved around alleged physical documents in their possession, the seizure of the pair's phones has also raised serious questions about the handling of digital evidence.
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Shock - Tragic turn of the screw for jailed Reuters journalists as case goes to trial

Shock - Tragic turn of the screw for jailed Reuters journalists as case goes to trial

Mizzima — Human rights groups cried foul this week over a case that has brought into question Myanmar's commitment to freedom of the press.
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Restore - Voices for heritage protection work to define the changing face of Yangon

Restore - Voices for heritage protection work to define the changing face of Yangon

Mizzima — While many places in the world have become monuments to modern development devoid of context, central Yangon is nothing of the sort. It is still a place without golden arches and corporate coffeehouses on every major corner – at least for the moment – where life spills out onto the streets and ancient traditions carry on alongside a maze of weather-beaten pastels and forsaken stucco facades.
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Top US adviser on Asian affairs Pottinger arrives in Myanmar

Top US adviser on Asian affairs Pottinger arrives in Myanmar

mizzima.com — A key adviser on Asian affairs to US President Donald Trump who recently made headlines for his existence being publicly denied, briefly appeared in Yangon on Thursday to speak with local media, having flown from Singapore the same morning after taking part in the US-North Korea summit on June 12.
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Action taker - Activist seeks to improve Myanmar society

Action taker - Activist seeks to improve Myanmar society

Mizzima — At 26 years old, Thinzar Shunlei Yi is one of those young people in Myanmar who has managed to gain attention not only at home, but through organisations around the world with significant reach – receiving the US Department of State's Emerging Young Leaders Award, serving as an ambassador for UK-based One Young World, speaking as part of the 2014 ASEAN Youth Forum, and making many friends along the way.
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Yangon police squash unsanctioned peace march in Tamwe

Yangon police squash unsanctioned peace march in Tamwe

mizzima.com — Nine people were arrested after an unsanctioned march to raise awareness of the plight of internally displaced people in Myanmar was effectively blocked in Yangon's Tamwe Township on Saturday evening. The hundreds gathered in front of the Ocean Supercenter at one of the city's busiest intersections were accompanied by dozens of riot police backed by armoured vehicles.
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No easy answers at sixth ethnic media conference in Hpa-an

No easy answers at sixth ethnic media conference in Hpa-an

Mizzima — As the end of three exhausting days featuring dozens of speakers, roundtable discussions, panels and workshops neared, participants gathered at City Hall in the Karen State capital of Hpa-an to have a look at the latest iteration of a draft policy for ethnic media in Myanmar.
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Judge accepts police witness 'trap' testimony in Reuters case

Judge accepts police witness 'trap' testimony in Reuters case

mizzima.com — A Myanmar judge has turned down the prosecution's request to declare a police officer who described his role in a plot to entrap two Reuters journalists as a "hostile" witness, in a case that continues to attract international attention.
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Disgrace - Myanmar government fails in its promise of press freedom

Disgrace - Myanmar government fails in its promise of press freedom

Mizzima — With 2018 World Press Freedom Day's theme of “Keeping Power in Check: Media, Justice and The Rule of Law,” perhaps no country is more relevant in the global discussion of these issues than Myanmar. Attention is focused on jailed Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, in a case recently described by Reporters Without Borders as “a crude manipulation orchestrated by the security services.”
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Mandarin Monday: Is Cursing in China Hen Hao or Lowbrow?

Mandarin Monday: Is Cursing in China Hen Hao or Lowbrow?

thebeijinger.com — You're on your way home from work. Three people jump ahead of you in line as you make your way to an overflowing subway car where you're thrashed by hundreds of commuters staring into their smartphones and jockeying for position.
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Lawsuit alleges student at Anchorage charter school had tape put over her mouth

Lawsuit alleges student at Anchorage charter school had tape put over her mouth

Anchorage Daily News — A parent who says her then-9-year-old daughter was made to sit in a hallway with packing tape covering her mouth is suing a charter school principal and the Anchorage School District. The lawsuit, filed last fall, says that teachers at the Alaska Native Cultural Charter School inflicted physical and emotional abuse on the 9-year-old child and other students in the fall of 2012.
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Super Saturated Sugar Strings singer takes a vow of silence

Super Saturated Sugar Strings singer takes a vow of silence

Anchorage Daily News — A loud presence in Alaska's musical community has been keeping very quiet lately. And around Anchorage it's become just a little harder to catch a really good show. Kathryn Moore, 33, has been sitting in a room outside Philadelphia wondering where words begin. "Do they start when your mouth creates their shape, even if you say nothing?"
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Reggae by the River: Jah Bar - Chengdu Living

Reggae by the River: Jah Bar - Chengdu Living

chengduliving.com — In a small bar near the river in Chengdu remains the well-worn home of reggae music in the city: Jah Bar.
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