Priyanka Borpujari - South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/rss/510339/feed Priyanka Borpujari is an award-winning journalist currently based in Tokyo, and has previously reported from India, El Salvador, Indonesia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Argentina. Between 2018 and 2019, she walked 1,200 kms across India on the Out of Eden Walk with Pulitzer-winning journalist Paul Salopek, which traces the path of human migration. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png Priyanka Borpujari - South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com Keen sailor Ikuko Nagano had hoped to escort tourists to Fujisawa for the regattas; expat teacher Jordan Michels had wanted an Olympic volunteering pin like those her father and grandfather got for Atlanta 1996; translator Emma Parker had been willing to fund her own way to Tokyo in return for a taste of the action. But all three, like thousands of others, had to rethink their Olympic volunteering dreams when problems began stacking up for the Tokyo Games. Of the 110,000 volunteers who had... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3143556/tokyo-olympics-10000-volunteers-hit-hurdles-covid?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3143556/tokyo-olympics-10000-volunteers-hit-hurdles-covid?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 Aug 2021 23:00:25 +0000 Tokyo Olympics: 10,000 volunteers hit the hurdles of Covid-19, chaos and not much to do Since September last year, Argentina-based human rights lawyer Daniela Bertone has spent many nights breastfeeding her year-old toddler while working on her master’s degree in peace studies at Japan’s International Christian University. Buenos Aires is 12 hours behind Tokyo, meaning she has to burn the midnight oil to engage in online discussions with classmates – and by 7am, when her other child, a three-year-old, is awake, it is time to get through the rest of the day “like a zombie”, she... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3141712/athletes-arrive-tokyo-olympics-foreign-students-japans?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3141712/athletes-arrive-tokyo-olympics-foreign-students-japans?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 19 Jul 2021 13:00:11 +0000 As athletes arrive for the Tokyo Olympics, foreign students at Japan’s universities are left stranded