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Mihir Melwani

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As seen in: CNN, CNN en Español, CNN Travel, MSN, MSN UK, Yahoo Life, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News, Yahoo News Malaysia, Yahoo News New Zealand and
Covers:  Offbeat & underground stories, Human Rights, Conflict Areas, Geopolitics, Hong Kong, Ukraine, Forced Migration
Doesn't Cover: Open to anything!
Award-Winning Journo (and engineer) from Hong Kong. @cnni. Words/pictures in @Channel4News @VICEworldnews @bmj_latest + more. @pulitzercenter grantee
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Ukrainian Medics Say They're Being Deliberately Targeted by Russian Forces

Ukrainian Medics Say They're Being Deliberately Targeted by Russian Forces

VICE World News — First responders tell VICE World News that Russia is using drones, artillery and booby traps to take them out, violating international humanitarian law.
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Volunteers Are Smuggling Unlicensed Morphine to the Ukrainian Front Lines

Volunteers Are Smuggling Unlicensed Morphine to the Ukrainian Front Lines

VICE News — LVIV, Ukraine-Anton needs morphine. The combat medic, whose squad is on the front line of the war in the Donbas, has 80 soldiers and only 20 doses of the opioid commonly used to manage battlefield injuries during evacuation. "It's not enough," he says, over a shaky phone line.
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Battle against the mind: the mental health of Ukraine's soldiers

Battle against the mind: the mental health of Ukraine's soldiers

The British Medical Journal — Ukrainian fighters, on and off the front lines, are feeling the psychological impacts of war, report Alicia Chen and Mihir Melwani Several weeks after he was critically injured, Dmytro sips a coffee in a wheelchair outside the military hospital.
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Ukraine war in photos: The Women of Ukraine at war

Ukraine war in photos: The Women of Ukraine at war

Grid — Agency photos by Mihir Melwani featured in: In this curation from Ukraine, women at war. Or at least — a dozen women at war. Even in that small number, you can get a sense of the range of contributions women have been making to the Ukrainian resistance — women serving in the military and civilian defense forces, women checking for land mines and weaving camouflage for soldiers, women caring for the wounded and covering the war as journalists.
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Psychotherapy in Lviv ( 【現場】為烏克蘭療傷——利沃夫，支撐起戰時心理支持的後方城市 )

Psychotherapy in Lviv ( 【現場】為烏克蘭療傷——利沃夫，支撐起戰時心理支持的後方城市 )

Initium Media — 【編者按】這是端傳媒特約記者陳映妤、Mihir Melwani和Jeremy Chan從烏克蘭現場發出的系列報導的第二篇。他們在俄烏戰爭持續3個月後進入了相對安全的西部城市利沃夫，嘗試一手紀錄在這場震驚世人的戰爭之下被連根拔起的普通人的命運，和他們的應對。歡迎閱讀系列第一篇《【現場】戰時三個月，我們進入烏克蘭，看到雖被戰爭改寫但頑強的生活》。本次報導計劃得到了普利策危機報導中心「The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting」的支持。 一邊是將上戰場的新兵，一邊是前線負傷的老兵 走進利沃夫郊區一個隱密的舊蘇聯廢棄工廠空地，一個超現實的場景映入眼簾——老人和小孩，時不時穿過正持著練習步槍、在草叢、柏油地面和擬真戰壕裏接受實戰訓練的烏克蘭年輕新兵。
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'I Want to Know How to Kill': The Training Camp for Ukraine's Future Soldiers

'I Want to Know How to Kill': The Training Camp for Ukraine's Future Soldiers

VICE World News — "Miley" adjusts her sights on her sniper-rifle. Photo: Mihir Melwani At a compound in an undisclosed location in Western Ukraine, trainers with codenames like "Charon" and "Prophet" try to psychologically prepare young Ukrainians for the horrors of war. LVIV, Ukraine - "I'll put a bag over your head, lead you into the basement, and leave you there.
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International Reporting in Ukraine (現場】戰時三個月，我們進入烏克蘭，看到雖被戰爭改寫但頑強的生活)

International Reporting in Ukraine (現場】戰時三個月，我們進入烏克蘭，看到雖被戰爭改寫但頑強的生活)

Initium Media — 現場】戰時三個月，我們進入烏克蘭，看到雖被戰爭改寫但頑強的生活 我們，在烏克蘭 「咿——」尖銳的防空警報聲毫無徵兆地響起，正昏昏欲睡的我一下被驚醒，從床上跳了起來。這是利沃夫（Lviv），這是我們在6小時前剛剛抵達的、進入戰事將近三個月的烏克蘭。我側過頭，發現聲音從同行的香港攝影記者手機裏發出，而另外一名記者也與我一樣，已經從床上跳起。攝影記者笑說：「嚇你們的，我要確認一下你們對警報聲有反應。」他似乎很滿意，側身睡去，但當下，我和另位記者的睡意卻完全消失了。窗外，夜色已深，晚上11時就進入宵禁的利沃夫，室外靜謐至極。
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Heading to Ukraine, a Group of Hong Kong and Taiwanese Journalists Cover the War

Heading to Ukraine, a Group of Hong Kong and Taiwanese Journalists Cover the War

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting — Heading to Ukraine, a Group of Hong Kong and Taiwanese Journalists Cover the War. This story excerpt was translated from Chinese. To read the original story in full, visit The Initium. Three months into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Alicia Chen from Taiwan and Mihir Melwani and...
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Driven by desperation: Without the right to work, refugees in Hong Kong face impossible choices

Driven by desperation: Without the right to work, refugees in Hong Kong face impossible choices

Hong Kong Free Press — A seven-year-old Hugo* watched as he was orphaned. "He shot my father two times to death in front of me," Hugo says. "I couldn't resist, I started to scream with so much fear... and then he came to me, he used a spear." Hugo was stabbed repeatedly and left unconscious.
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Shades of the early pandemic as Omicron tests Hong Kong

Shades of the early pandemic as Omicron tests Hong Kong

Al Jazeera — Hong Kong, China - Bundled in a quilted jacket, covered with two thin blankets, Alice Yeung insisted she was not cold. Five hours before, she had tested positive for COVID-19. With no symptoms, but no vaccine, either, she was shipped from her nursing home to Caritas Medical Centre in the Kowloon region on Thursday.
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Xi Jinping warns China won't be bullied as Chinese Communist Party turns 100

Xi Jinping warns China won't be bullied as Chinese Communist Party turns 100

Channel 4 News — China's President Xi Jinping has marked the centenary of the Chinese Communist Party with a stark warning that anyone who tries to bully the country, he said, would have "their heads bashed and bloodied". Meanwhile police were out in force in Hong Kong, on the anniversary of the territory's return to Chinese control, warning people not to take part in pro-democracy protests.
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Hong Kongers in Exile Won't Let China Erase Tiananmen Square

Hong Kongers in Exile Won't Let China Erase Tiananmen Square

VICE News Tonight — For three decades, Hong Kong was the only place in China where people could talk about the Tiananmen Square Massacre in public without getting arrested. That...
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China warns UK of 'resolute response'

China warns UK of 'resolute response'

Channel 4 News — Canada and Australia have already suspended their extradition agreements with Hong Kong - and both countries have been on the receiving end of China's diplomatic wrath. Beijing had already warned the UK to tread carefully, promising a "resolute response".
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Hundreds arrested in Hong Kong protests as security law comes into effect

Hundreds arrested in Hong Kong protests as security law comes into effect

Channel 4 News — It's 23 years since Hong Kong stopped being a British colony and returned to Chinese control, but there were no celebrations. Instead hundreds of demonstrators have been arrested, and thousands defied a police ban to oppose draconian legislation imposed by China last night.
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New security law sparks protests in Hong Kong

New security law sparks protests in Hong Kong

Studio Incendo — For a second summer in a row, political unrest has returned to the streets of Hong Kong.Hundreds of protesters were arrested in the busy shopping district ...
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Thousands defy ban to attend Tiananmen Square anniversary vigil in Hong Kong

Thousands defy ban to attend Tiananmen Square anniversary vigil in Hong Kong

Channel 4 News — Thousands of people defied a police ban to stage a candlelit vigil in Hong Kong, marking the 31st anniversary of China's crackdown in Tiananmen Square. It's the first time the annual vigil has been banned - ostensibly due to coronavirus restrictions.
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Thousands march in Hong Kong to protest new China security law

Thousands march in Hong Kong to protest new China security law

Channel 4 News — Unrest has returned to the streets of Hong Kong for the first time since the spread of coronavirus. Thousands of protesters marched through the city in opposition to China’s plan to impose a new security law on the territory. Speaking to Channel 4 News, Hong Kong’s veteran pro-democracy politican, Martin Lee, has challenged Britain to stand up to China over its failure to abide by their joint agreement. The 1997 agreement promised a high-degree of autonomy to Hong Kong for 50 years, under the principle of ‘one country, two systems.’ Protesters say that is now in jeopardy.
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Pro-China rally counters pro-democracy demo in Hong Kong

Pro-China rally counters pro-democracy demo in Hong Kong

Channel 4 News — It was a tale of two cities in Hong Kong today. On one side of the harbour, thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators chanted "Liberate Hong Kong!" Across the water, a pro-Beijing rally called for an end to the increasingly violent clashes.
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