NY Times Vietnam Bureau Chief and Global Affairs Correspondent.
Joined August 2008
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Damien Cave retweeted
"The Times subscribers are way down."
Fact check: Times subscribers are way up, higher than ever in the paper's history.
Damien Cave retweeted
The @nytimes added 310,000 net new digital subscribers in the first quarter, surpassing 13.1 million total, the largest paid audience in the history of the paper. @katie_robertson nytimes.com/2026/05/06/busin…
"smaller nations are behaving as if they are stuck in “Godzilla” or “Dune” — moving quietly in small groups, trying not to provoke the wrath of petulant giants." nytimes.com/2026/05/11/world…
Our reporting on the war's impact in Asia: It's worse than Washington thinks. nytimes.com/2026/04/20/world…
Not sure I’ve ever met anyone more dedicated to the music they love than this guy nytimes.com/2026/04/12/world…
"… even before the war, climate change was pushing saltwater into fields, twisting arms and budgets. The gut punch of an oil shock has added to frustration with an energy source that already felt like tainted treasure..." nytimes.com/2026/04/08/world…
Talking Australian soft power, universities, SE Asia and the war in Iran with the smart folks at Global Roaming with @abcnews abc.net.au/listen/programs/g…
Some thoughts (and reporting) on Australian universities and what’s at risk if they don’t get fixed abc.net.au/news/2026-04-05/u…
Australia rushes toward new laws after the Bondi attack. But if new laws are not the answer? nytimes.com/2025/12/19/world…
Social cohesion matters. Can Australia hold it together? My look at clashing and competing narratives in a country it’s hard not to love. nytimes.com/2025/12/16/world…
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Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
Not a story I would ever want to write, but the response shows what I love about the place that Sunday's shooters attacked. nytimes.com/2025/12/15/world…
“The previously unreported calls demonstrate the haphazard and sometimes tense nature of the process within the Trump administration to weigh what to do with the survivors…” nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/po…
Globalization isn’t popular in the factory towns where I grew up or in many other places. Vietnam is an exception — so I tried to figure out why and what the world could learn for the future. nytimes.com/2025/11/08/world…
“Controlling information and media is the one of the early and necessary steps of the authoritarian.” My global analysis. Trump is not alone. Nor is he in the kind of company most American presidents preferred. nytimes.com/2025/09/19/world…
Thomas Jefferson was, in his own words, "among the early converts" to vaccines, but the U.S. gov't today is heading in the opposite direction of both its own past, and other countries. I talked to experts on five continents for this one. nytimes.com/2025/09/15/world…
Is there a particular perspective that Trump and Putin share? Could it be an imperial mindset? Historians and scholars see a few ideas making a comeback, that these two leaders seem to share about power, land, glory and state capitalism nytimes.com/2025/08/15/world…
Worth reading. Very Australian vs very American — and just one example of what can happen in the gray zone of super empowered immigration and border control where everything and everyone is the target of dudes with badges and bosses demanding deportation numbers.
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA for reporting on the Columbia student protests.
My story here @NewYorker
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