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Frances Mao is a news reporter with the BBC’s Asia Online team in Singapore. Since transferring from the Australia bureau to the Asia team last year, she’s covered every major news event in a region that spans Afghanistan, China, Sri Lanka and the Solomon Islands. In recent weeks she’s reported on the Indonesian stadium crush, the Thailand nursery massacre and China’s party congress.
This year, Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) celebrates its 20th festival edition of unifying the world’s most exciting writers, thinkers, and performers. To celebrate its anniversary festival, it will …
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