13 Oct 2023

Asia correspondent Elizabeth Beattie

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 13 October 2023

Elizabeth Beattie discusses an artillery strike in Myanmar which has killed at least 29 people, including women and children, at a refugee camp near the border with China. It is one of the deadliest attacks on civilians in the country since the military seized power in a 2021 coup. Also, Australian Cheng Lei has been freed from detention in China and arrived in Melbourne. She previously worked at Chinese state-owned media, CGTN, and was accused in 2020 of "supplying state secrets overseas". Her charges were never made public.

Australian journalist Cheng Lei

Photo: AFP / Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade