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Currently based in southeast Asia, Simon Roughneen has written for Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, South China Morning Post, Asia Times, The Irrawaddy, ISN, Sunday Business Post and others. He is a radio correspondent affiliated to Global Radio News and has reported on RTÉ, BBC, CBS, CBC Canada, Fox News, Voice of America, al-Jazeera.
Some of the locations and stories he has covered include:
- 2011 floods in Thailand
- North Korean defectors and media coverage
- July 2011 street protests in Malaysia
- 2011 elections in Thailand
- Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia
- curbs on religious freedom in Vietnam
- freedom of expression in Sudan, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Cambodia
- Southern Sudan either side of the January 2011 secession vote
- Vietnam in the run-up to the 2011 Communist Party conference
- Pakistan after the 2010 monsoon floods
- The mood in Israel and the West Bank after the ‘flotilla’
- Protests and street violence in Bangkok
- 2010 Elections in the Philippines
- 2010 Haiti earthquake
- Ongoing political oppression in Burma
- Timor-Leste a decade after Indonesia withdrawal
- business and economic issues such as the growth of sovereign wealth funds, Islamic finance, trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific region, the rise of developing-world transnational corporations
- religious affairs, the plight of Christian minorities in various locations, clerical sex abuse in Ireland, inter-religious relations in Indonesia, sectarian tensions and politics in Lebanon
- Kosovo’s independence
- conflict in Darfur during 2006
- drought and hunger in Ethiopia and Kenya
- Pakistan after the 2005 earthquake
His chapters on security and politics in Sudan were published in Beyond Settlement (Associated University Press, 2008).
Read a Q&A profile with Simon here
CONTACT
You can contact Simon at simon@simonroughneen.com or by using the form below.
