Nikkei Asia’s Robinson dies at 65

Gwen Akiko Robinson, Nikkei Asia’s Bangkok-based editor-at-large, has died at the age of 65 after a battle with cancer.

Ken Koyanagi of Nikkei Asia reports, “It seems that sense of lost opportunity back in the early 1990s led her to invest her time into Nikkei’s subsequent English media venture 20 years later. This time around, the project has survived headwinds and is making great strides forward.

“Before rejoining Nikkei, Gwen built a successful career at the Financial Times between the mid-1990s and 2013 while posted as a correspondent to Tokyo, Jakarta, Washington and Bangkok among other locations. She also worked at the FT’s London headquarters as foreign desk editor and then as commentary editor.

“In her last posting at the FT Bangkok bureau, which stretched from 2011 till the summer of 2013, her coverage of Myanmar stood out among all major news publications. She managed to build trust both with high-ranking generals from the country’s ruling military, known as the Tatmadaw, and also with leaders of Aung San Suu Kyi’s rising National League for Democracy (NLD). Many business people in Myanmar — both Burmese and foreign — regularly hanged out with her in Yangon.”

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