Journalist & photographer
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=21209&Submit=Submit Although an invitation to the British royal wedding for the Syrian ambassador to the UK was withdrawn, it has emerged that an invitation has been sent to the Burmese…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=21175 Claims that both governments are cynically stoking up border dispute to boost popularity by appealing to nationalist sentiment. Since Friday morning, fighting along the Thai-Cambodia border has left 12…
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-thailand-cambodia-20110423,0,2582448.story Thailand and Cambodia blame each other for the latest in a series of conflicts involving a contested temple. Officers of the two militaries meet to calm the situation after…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=21148 Last week’s gathering of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) heads of government in China looks like another landmark in the Asia-tilted re-balancing of global economic power…
http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3140&Itemid=170 Hints of a diplomatic tussle behind Cambodia’s troubled tribunal find their way to the country’s best-known Killing Field, which with better management would be a must-see for any visitor.…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=21130 New US rules outlining requirements for oil, gas and mining companies to disclose payments made to foreign governments, including Burma, have been postponed until August at the earliest. Section…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=21124 PHNOM PENH—Ross Dunkley, the sole foreign owner invested in Burma’s state-controlled media, faces charges of assaulting a woman and breaches of the country’s immigration laws, in what many observers,…
http://www.sbpost.ie/news/world/scars-from-brutal-regime-still-run-deep-in-cambodia-55599.html SIMON ROUGHNEEN IN PHNOM PENH – For Norng Sarath, the story about a girl named Chea who was kidnapped by the Khmer Rouge and gang-raped in a woodland outside…
PHNOM PENH - ‘This isn’t right at all’, says Mr Ponlok, owner of a waterfront cafe at Boeung Kok lake in Phnom Penh. ‘People are being forced out and the…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=21103 BANGKOK—In a departure from policy, officials from the Burmese embassy in Bangkok have made a small official contribution to a fund for victims of the truck crash on Monday…