Foreign Correspondence

Far East Correspondent is a news portal directing readers to the websites, which our freelance correspondents write for. It provides a focal point for their work which primarily covers East Asia through an array of media including television, radio, text and photography.

Foreign Correspondence

Podcast: Dominic Faulder

April 14, 2019 Webmaster 0

Anand Panyarachun, a former prime minister of Thailand, has always preferred a quiet life, which contrasts sharply with his enormously successful career as a high profile diplomat and politician who helped shaped Thailand’s politics as […]

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Podcast: Philip Bowring

March 25, 2019 Webmaster 0

Long before there were the nation states of Southeast Asia, the region was dominated by a series of ancient empires. This legacy of the region, which lasted centuries and still manifests itself in some ways […]

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Podcast: Peter Starr

February 3, 2019 Webmaster 0

Heng Samrin played an outsized and often overlooked role in Cambodia’s history and politics. Arguably one of the twentieth century’s greatest guerrilla commanders, he defected from the Khmer Rouge and fled to Vietnam, where he […]

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Garbage Feeds Thousands

October 22, 2018 Webmaster 0

Homeless and poverty is an increasing issue in affluent Australia. In Melbourne, considered among the world’s most liveable cities, Dumpster Diving through the bins of supermarkets to salvage what’s left is now common. By Morgan […]