Peter Langan

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Editor-at-Large, Forkast.News

Tokyo

Business and Finance, China, Opinion and Editorial, Technology

As seen in: Forkast.News, Bloomberg News, ABC News, Asahi Shimbun, Nikkei, Nikkei Asia, South China Morning Post, Firstpost, The Japan Times, Yonhap News Agency (English), The Korea Times (Korea) and

Covers: Politics, business, energy, markets. Have covered China, Japan, Southeast Asia. Recent stint included all things cryptocurrency and blockchain, as well as all the macro stuff that feeds into it.

Journalist in Asia. Views are my own, or so I’ve been led to believe.

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Industrial farming of livestock a ticking pathogen bomb, scientists say

After African swine fever and the coronavirus, Chinese authorities plan to plug holes to control diseases in …

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The life or death question: who gets the Covid-19 vaccine?

Experts warn drug development structure and signs of protectionism and nationalism send worrying signals abou…

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As death toll passes 300,000, US-China discord hampers search for Covid-19's origin

The WHO has been in the thick of previous outbreaks to help contain infectious disease. But this time is diff…

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Who owns a virus? Covid-19 reignites debate on 'viral sovereignty'

The international community has failed to agree on obligations countries have to share genetic sequence data,…

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One virus caused Covid-19; scientists say thousands more are in waiting

In the second part of a series on lessons learned from the pandemic, we look at the need to identify new viru…

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Mekong nations face food risk on claims China's dams exacerbate drought

Drought, erratic water levels along 4,300km river are disrupting rice yields and fish catches, raising costs …

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Wanted: world leaders to answer the coronavirus pandemic alarm

The international community has sleepwalked into an emergency that it could have prepared for years ago, anal…

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Should AI help make life-or-death decisions in the coronavirus fight?

Chinese researchers say they have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can assist doctors to make c…

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Will coronavirus kill off 'dinosaur' world of academic publishing?

The deadly pandemic has brought back to life a long-running debate about companies profiting from the publica…

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Coronavirus: How Disease X, the epidemic-in-waiting, erupted in China

PUBLISHED 27 FEBRUARY, 2020 ILLUSTRATIONS BY KALIZ LEE By Simone McCarthy, Linda Lew, William Zheng, Echo Xie…

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Tepco's 'Deal with Devil' Signals End to Japan's Post-War Era

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