Journalist & photographer
http://www.rte.ie/news/av/2011/0529/worldreport.html# By Simon Roughneen in Ho Chi Minh City. By the end of 2012 James Galvin hopes to employ 150 staff at Glandore Systems’ Vietnam operation. This will almost double…
HO CHI MINH CITY -- Late on a Tuesday evening, sitting four floors up in a Ho Chi Minh City cafe overlooking the city’s landmark opera house, a worried man…
http://the-diplomat.com/2011/06/03/free-speech-in-thailand/ BANGKOK – Public debate around Thailand’s lèse-majesté laws and related restrictions on freedom of expression appears to be growing, even as the country’s election-focused political parties steer clear of…
http://atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/ME24Ae01.html HO CHI MINH CITY – Emerging from the anterooms of the Thanh Minh Zen monastery, Thich Quang Do nodded and smiled, extending a handshake firm enough to belie his…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=21342 BANGKOK—Speaking in Bangkok on Monday at the end of his week-long mission to Thailand, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Burma, Tomás Ojea Quintana,…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=21330 BANGKOK – As the searing late afternoon heat bore down on the massing crowd, three rows of orange-clad monks led the chanting, with thousands of red-clad demonstrators joining in,…
http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/life/camdodia-killing-field-tourism-905731 From 1975 to 1979 an estimated 1.4 million Cambodians were killed under the despotic rule of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. The executions took place on what have…
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2011/05/burmese-media-launch-campaign-to-free-jailed-reporters130.html Hla Hla Win, Sithu Zeya, Maung Maung Zeya, Ngwe Soe Lin and Win Maw are all undercover reporters in Burma, and all are serving jail sentences ranging from eight…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=21255 Thai Prime Minster Abhisit Vejajjiva will announce details of Thailand’s parliamentary elections later today, with a July 3 mooted as voting day after Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej endorsed the…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=21245 Following the May 5 business summit in Jakarta between the European Union (EU) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean)—combined with reports from recently leaked US diplomatic cables…