Dean Yates

Position: Deputy Editor, North Asia political and general news
I have worked for Reuters since 1993. Most recently I was the Baghdad bureau chief, but most of my career has been spent in Asia.

Articles

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Q+A: How will Maguindanao massacre affect the Philippines? November 27, 07:06am EST 

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine police have filed murder charges against the main suspect in the killing of 57 people in the south of the country earlier this week, an election-related massacre that has sparked worldwide condemnation.  Full Article 

Blog Posts

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Indonesia: To hell and back

By Dean Yates (The author lived in Indonesia from 1992-1995 and 2000-2005, with various assignments in between) It was not that long ago that Indonesia was lurching from crisis to crisis, even drawing ...  Full Article | Comments [8] 

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Half-baked men, hooligans and other insults from North Korea

By Jon Herskovitz The end of the Bush administration will likely bring an end to one of my favourite guilty pleasures of reporting on North Korea, which is the verbal battle between Washington and Pyongyang. ...  Full Article | Comments [1] 

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Panda-mania rocks Taiwan

By Ralph Jennings Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan arrived in a city gripped by panda-mania today. You would think David Beckham or Tom Cruise had just flown into Taipei. Local TV stations announced the arrival ...  Full Article | Comments [8]