Ashish Valentine
speaker
250 appearances
36 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 22 Aug
Ashish Valentine’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 33 in all, peaking in Jan 2026 with 5.
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The Democratic island of Taiwan is separated from China by a strip of ocean only about a hundred miles wide on average, the Taiwan Strait.
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A P-8A Poseidon aircraft flew through international airspace in that contested waterway on Friday, according to a statement the Navy released today.
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According to the Chinese state media outlet Global Times, the Chinese military tracked and monitored the aircraft throughout the transit.
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U.S.
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aircraft and naval vessels transit the strait roughly every few months.
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These transits are not appreciated by Beijing, which claims Taiwan as its own territory.
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The US Seventh Fleet said the move demonstrates the United States' commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific.
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For NPR News, Aimashish Valentine in Taipei.
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As Indonesia celebrates its 81st Independence Day, rescue crews are hard at work in the southeastern island of Flores.
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It happens to be one of the Muslim-majority country's few predominantly Catholic areas.
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About 5,000 people have been relocated to temporary shelters there.
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Thousands more are sleeping outdoors to try and avoid further damage from aftershocks.
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Authorities are handing out food and drinking water to survivors and providing medical care.
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There are also
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Rushing to restore power and deliver aid to remote villages that have been cut off from road access by landslides.
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For NPR News, I'm Ashish Valentine in Taipei.
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Speaking at the annual memorial event in Tokyo, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi vowed Japan would never repeat the mistakes of the past.
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Since the end of the war, Japan has consistently contributed to global peace and prosperity.
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We will never let the tragedy of the war be repeated, she said.
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The Prime Minister avoided visiting the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors those who died fighting for Imperial Japan.
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