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Rebecca Ratcliffe

Rebecca Ratcliffe is the Guardian's south-east Asia correspondent

July 2024

  • Philippine Coast Guard personnel prepare rubber fenders after Chinese Coast Guard vessels blocked their way to a resupply mission at the Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea in March 2024.

    Confrontations in South China Sea surge, raising fears a miscalculation could lead to conflict

  • A scene from the hit Thai film How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies

    Golden age for south-east Asian cinema as local films break box office records

  • Rachel Reeves

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Rachel Reeves becomes UK’s first female chancellor; former Tory chair says party faces ‘oblivion’ – as it happened

  • A woman in white is grabbed by two police officers wearing masks

    Cambodia jails 10 environmentalists in ‘crushing blow to civil society’

June 2024

  • Vladimir Putin and To Lam shake hands between the Russian and Vietnamese flags and in front of a large bust of Ho Chi Minh

    Russia and Vietnam agree to strengthen ties during Putin state visit

  • Three people in orange lifejackets stand on a boat. One of them is pointing an axe towards people on another boat

    Philippines accuses Chinese coastguards of piracy after violent confrontation

  • Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un arrive to sign the security pact.

    Ukraine war live
    Putin in Pyongyang: Russia and North Korea claim strategic pact is ‘peaceful and defensive’ – as it happened

  • Thaksin Shinawatra

    Former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra indicted for insulting monarchy

  • Thailand passes historic bill recognising marriage equality

  • Philippines increases South China Sea patrols as Beijing set to roll out new trespass laws

  • Thailand market fire kills more than 1,000 animals prompting calls for crackdown

  • The cat in the flat: Singapore lifts ban on pets in public housing

  • China’s defence chief repeats threat of force against Taiwanese independence

  • Zelenskiy accuses China of deterring countries from going to peace summit

  • Thai island of Samui weighs ‘White Lotus effect’ against environmental cost

May 2024

  • Passengers of Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 from London to Singapore, which made an emergency landing in Bangkok, greet family members upon arrival at Changi Airport in Singapore on May 2024. A 73-year-old British man died and more than 70 people were injuredduring severe turbulence.

    Screams, chaos, blood on the floor: passengers describe terrifying turbulence on flight SQ321

    Passengers have told of the moment the Singapore Airlines plane hit severe turbulence, sending travellers crashing into the cabin ceiling
  • Singapore Airlines aircraft

    Singapore PM promises ‘thorough investigation’ after severe turbulence on flight from London

    Lawrence Wong offers condolences to family of Geoffrey Kitchen, who died during flight that left others critically injured
    • British passenger dies after severe turbulence on London-Singapore flight

    • Singapore Airlines flight: British man dead and 30 injured after severe turbulence – as it happened

    • Middle East crisis live
      No genocide taking place in Gaza, Israel tells UN’s top court – as it happened

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