Journalist & photographer
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=21047&Submit=Submit As an appeal hearing ends in the case of the only person convicted so far for crimes committed under the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia awaits the trial of the still-living…
http://sbpost.ie/news/world/earthquake-adds-to-burmese-woe-55315.html Simon Roughneen in Bangkok. As Burma comes to terms with an earthquake on Thursday evening that killed at least 75 people, the country’s seemingly never-ending political crisis goes on.…
http://www.rte.ie/news/player.html?worldreport#programme=World%20Report “We all ran outside, our windows fell in, the walls are cracked, most of the buildings in the town have been damaged” That was the account given over the…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=21011 BANGKOK—After a one-day strike by factory workers in Rangoon earlier this week proceeded unimpeded by Burmese police, thoughts are turning to the possible introduction of trade union legislation in…
The Irrawaddy speaks to Dr Gene Sharp, the author of a handbook on how to topple dictatorships, about the failure of Burma’s opposition to achieve this goal after more than…
http://www.sbpost.ie/news/world/disaster-not-thwarting-international-nuclear-plans-55172.html Simon Roughneen in Bangkok and Niall Stanage in New York – While Asian countries say they might revise nuclear energy plans in the wake of the Japanese earthquake and…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=20970 BANGKOK – With Asian Football chief Mohammed Bin Hammam yesterday announcing his candidacy for the Presidency of world football’s oft-derided governing body FIFA, incumbent Sepp Blatter is making sure…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=20947&Submit=Submit India is losing out to China in Burma, but New Delhi could still be downplaying military assistance to Burma amid rumours of a new bilateral arms deal BANGKOK –…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=20938 BANGKOK — In 2007, just weeks after the Saffron Revolution against military rule in Burma and in the midst of an army crackdown on monks and other protesters, the…
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…