Foreign Correspondence
Burma a Role Model?
FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — It all sounds a little too fanciful. The idea of Burma as a regional role model for the treatment and release of political prisoners requires just too much of a leap […]
Year: 2012
Foreign Correspondence
Burma’s Breakthrough?
FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has picked up another award, confirmed she will run for parliament and says her country is on the verge of a breakthrough as its […]
Foreign Correspondence
Vietnam’s Computer Game
FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — Vietnam is crazy about computer games. So much so that authorities regard game addiction, and the crimes reportedly committed by junkies desperate for their next fix, as a growing problem. Yet […]
Foreign Correspondence
The Anwar Verdict
FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — A round up of stories from Luke Hunt on the verdict in the sodomy trial of Malaysia’s opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim from The Diplomat, Time magazine and Voice of America.
Foreign Correspondence
Cambodian Land Grab
FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — Violent clashes and protests over a land-grabbing disputed have taken place in the heart of the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh this week, after a development company began to bulldoze the […]