Journalist & photographer
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2012/03/cautious-hope-for-freedom-of-information-in-burma089.html BANGKOK — A week out from special elections that are likely to see opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi take a seat in the country’s parliament, Burma’s long-straitjacketed journalists…
Traveling in Asia? Feel poorly? Don’t be taken in by cheap medicines — they may be counterfeit. http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/life/travel-sick-thats-because-drugs-dont-work-200769 If you’re traveling to Asia and have a health complaint, beware —…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=23243 BANGKOK—Since a 1994 ceasefire between the Burmese army and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) broke down last June, Kachin civilians have suffered human rights abuses at the hands of…
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-thailand-law-20120320,0,1467171.story http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-fg-thailand-law-20120320,0,3091724.story Opponents say the law is used to intimidate critics and stifles free speech. But some royalists fear reform advocates want to eliminate the Thai monarchy. By Simon Roughneen…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=23193 MANDALAY—A visit to The Moustache Brothers is a rite of passage for any foreign journalist visiting Mandalay, Burma’s second city and the former capital before the invading British deposed…
Estimated 70,000 Kachin war refugees living in camps by Sino-Burmese borders survive on local donations as international charities are unwilling or unable to gain access. http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=23163 LAIZA, Kachin State—With headlights…
http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/christians-flee-war-in-northern-myanmar/ JEYANG, Myanmar — A bright but quiet Sunday morning in a sun-lit valley is broken by the sound of hymns sung from inside two adjacent wood and bamboo halls.…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=23145 BANGKOK—Welcoming the tentative recent truce between the Karen National Union (KNU) and the Burmese government, several Karen leaders say that reforms are not yet being felt in Karen State…