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    Ben Dooley is a reporter for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) based in Washington, D.C.

    He has covered Asia for over a decade, starting as a reporter in Washington and Beijing for Japan's Kyodo News. He spent three years at Agence France-Presse in China before moving to Tokyo, where he was a business correspondent for the New York Times.


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