Journalist & photographer
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Digital-Library/Special-Feature/Detail?lng=en&id=144931&contextid774=144931&contextid775=144579&tabid=1452453318 China’s growing regional presence – not to mention its territorial claims – is prompting many Southeast Asian states to reinvigorate their ties with the United States. However, the West’s…
http://tinyurl.com/748grxu YANGON – Speaking in Bangkok prior to his visit to Burma in January, US Senator John McCain described the array of recent reforms undertaken by the country’s government as…
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/ISN-Insights/Detail?lng=en&id=127540&contextid734=127540&contextid735=127102&tabid=127102 Thailand’s ranking as a place where the public and press can freely express information and opinion has nosedived in recent years, as the conflict between the country’s constitutionally-enshrined freedom…
DUBLIN -- Irish political punditry has long been something of an echo-chamber, so it was not much of a surprise when a tired default acronym got another airing over the…
HONG KONG -- Vice President Xi Jinping was named deputy chairman of the country's military, possibly presaging his eventual succession to the presidency.
BANGKOK -- “May I propose a toast for the long-lasting Sino-Myanmar pauk-phaw friendship.” So said Li Jinjun, China's Ambassador to Myanmar, or Burma, speaking at an official reception in Rangoon…
BANGKOK -- Last week, just over fifteen years after the US and Vietnam normalised relations marred by decades-old war, the naval destroyer USS John S. McCain docked in the central…
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch/Detail/?lng=en&id=120027 While Indonesia has made notable strides in the twelve years since the fall of the Suharto dictatorship, radical ideology and elitist cronyism could stall further progress It is sometimes…
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch/Detail/?lng=en&id=119423 The first conviction against one of the lead perpetrators of mass murder under the Khmer Rouge was issued Monday, but questions remain about the tribunal process. The Extraordinary Chambers…
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch/Detail/?lng=en&id=119092 Two months after Thailand’s army routed the anti-Government redshirt protest movement from central Bangkok, sixteen provinces including Bangkok remain under emergency law. Thai media carried Government claims that sabotage…