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Sarah Newey

Global Health Security Correspondent
  • How an NHS app is helping doctors diagnose leprosy patients in war-torn Myanmar

    A platform widely used in the UK is connecting British dermatologists with patients thousands of miles away

    Sarah Newey 26 Mar 2024, 11:29am
    Sandar, a 23-year-old from Myanmar, is recovering from leprosy after six months of treatment
  • How southeast Asia’s ‘scamdemic’ is reshaping the face of human trafficking

    Exclusive: Major report warns men and boys are increasingly being targeted as criminal syndicates expand from sexual to labour exploitation

    Sarah Newey 25 Mar 2024, 8:00am
    A Taiwanese human trafficking victims from Cambodia, standing on a street in Taipei, Taiwan, after escaping his captors
  • How arsenic-polluted water is turning rice into a toxic staple

    Researchers warn that contamination is a significant issue for regions heavily reliant on the semi-aquatic crop

    Sarah Newey 21 Mar 2024, 11:04am
    Women working in rice fields, southern Laos
  • No buyers for Aung San Suu Kyi’s villa where she was under house arrest

    Myanmar’s detained leader spent 15 years at the Yangon house which remains unsold with possible buyers likely to be viewed as traitors

    Sarah Newey 20 Mar 2024, 2:42pm
    Aung San Suu Kyi and Hillary Clinton - No buyers for Aung San Suu Kyi's lakeside villa where she was under house arrest
  • Thai prawns and other seafood imports are once again being linked to modern slavery

    Lawmakers draft new legislation that weakens seafarer protections, sparking fears of a return to the ‘bad old days’ of trafficked labour

    Sarah Newey 20 Mar 2024, 1:21pm
    Migrant workers sort fish and seafood unloaded from a fishing ship at a port in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand
  • Hong Kong’s new national security laws pose threat to Western businesses

    New crimes come into force on Saturday, including treason, sabotage, sedition, theft of state secrets, external interference and espionage

    James Warrington 19 Mar 2024, 7:09pm
    Article 23 was passed on Tuesday, marking the latest stage of a widespread political crackdown triggered by pro-democracy protests in 2019
  • Unprecedented outbreak of dengue surges across Brazil

    Hospitals and doctors are stretched to the limit after more than 1.5 million people catch the virus so far this year

    Lilia Sebouai 18 Mar 2024, 12:52pm
    A genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquito at the Oxitec facilities in Campinas, Sao Paulo state, Brazil
  • More than 800 ‘good-looking’ people rescued from love scam centre

    Individuals tricked into promise of well-paid jobs in the Philippines are coerced into fraudulent activity or face violence

    Sarah Newey 15 Mar 2024, 11:45am
    Police rescue 432 Chinese nationals, 371 Filipinos, and 72 others from compound north of Manila
  • How the grisly discovery of a ‘foetus mortuary’ re-shaped Thailand’s abortion laws

    Years after the country’s abortion legislation shifted, entrenched attitudes still obstruct access in the Buddhist country

    Sarah Newey 15 Mar 2024, 10:32am
    Rescue workers arrange bags containing dead fetuses found at the morgue of a Buddhist temple in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Nov. 19, 2010
  • Healthy humans will be deliberately infected with Covid in bid to develop nasal spray vaccine

    A £44m project aims to develop next-generation treatments that reduce disease severity and block transmission

    Sarah Newey 14 Mar 2024, 12:05pm
    A patient receives a nasal spray vaccine
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  • ‘They kill and play with their victims’ bodies like dolls’: The elephants terrorising Thailand

    After years of endangerment, elephant numbers in the wild have surged – with deadly consequences for local communities

    Sarah Newey 27 Feb 2024, 5:24pm
    A wild male Asian elephant walks out in front of traffic on a road in the Khao Ang Rue Nai Wildlife Preserve Area in Chachoengsao, Thailand
  • Taylor Swift drag queen launches rival tour after singer’s ‘snub’

    Tribute artist ‘Taylor Sheesh’ fills the gap - even down to the outfits - after singer misses out countries on tour of South East Asia

    Sarah Newey 26 Feb 2024, 12:38pm
    Taylor Swift (left) and Taylor Sheesh (right)
  • Scientists one step closer to universal ‘holy grail’ antivenom

    Scientists have discovered that a human antibody could be the key to protecting against venom from world’s deadliest snakes

    Sarah Newey 26 Feb 2024, 12:35pm
    Each year, between 81,000 and 138,000 people die from snake bites across the globe.
  • Thousands flee Myanmar as military brings in conscription amid civil war fears

    Junta plans to call 60,000 young men and women up annually, starting next month

    Sarah Newey 17 Feb 2024, 2:07pm
    Soldiers with their vehicles as people gather to protest against the military coup, in Yangon, Myanmar
  • ‘Cuddly grandpa’ who is favourite to win Indonesia election has a murky past

    Prabowo Subianto leads in polls despite alleged human rights abuses during his regime

    Sarah Newey 12 Feb 2024, 2:55pm
    Prabowo Subianto's campaign team have created memes and balloons to depict the former general as cute and cuddly
  • Xi Jinping heralds Chinese New Year with cosy phonecall to Putin

    The two leaders reportedly agree to work together to ‘resolutely oppose external interference in their internal affairs’

    Sarah Newey 9 Feb 2024, 12:37pm
    Mr Xi is said to have told Putin 'China-Russia relations face new development opportunities'
  • Five billion people could be without clean drinking water by 2050, study warns

    Researchers tracking the spread of waterway toxins warn that nitrogen pollution could exacerbate a looming scarcity crisis

    Sarah Newey 7 Feb 2024, 5:10pm
    Water dripping from a tap in Hammanskraal, South Africa
  • The new mile-high club: Why airline toilets could give early warning of the next pandemic

    Major airports are intercepting and analysing waste from planes to detect dangerous new arrivals

    Sarah Newey 7 Feb 2024, 4:00pm
    Airplane taking off from the airport runway in beautiful sunset light
  • Thailand cracks down on knock-off ‘elephant trousers’ flooding in from China

    Deputy prime minister fears local manufacturers will be cut out of market by foreign producers

    Sarah Newey 6 Feb 2024, 11:35am
    A worker sews clothing with the elephant print. The garments are sold for as little as £3.50
  • Battle Lines: Israel wants security buffer zone in Gaza & Thai farmer taken hostage by Hamas

    Join The Telegraph’s top journalists as they analyse the top defence, security & foreign affairs stories and tell you what you need to know

    David Knowles 2 Feb 2024, 10:14am
    Israeli women raise placards bearing messages as they protest outside the ministry of defence, calling for the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas since October 7, 2023
  • Children at centre of dangerous mpox outbreak ‘accelerating’ in DRC

    The Democratic Republic of Congo is struggling to control a far deadlier form of mpox, known as clade one, which is spreading unchecked

    Sarah Newey 30 Jan 2024, 3:07pm
    An image showing lesions on the arms and torso of a monkeypox patient during an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from 1996 to 1997
  • Fifty days in chains: The Thai hostage who survived Hamas

    Phonsawan Pinakalo was taken prisoner on October 7. He endured beatings, bombings and solitary confinement – but lived to tell the tale

    Sarah Newey 27 Jan 2024, 8:00am
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