Cambodia Backs Vaccinations

Published on Jul 24, 2021 by Luke Hunt

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA – Amid rising caseloads of coronavirus infections as it emerges from a strict COVID lockdown, Cambodia is pinning its hopes on a vaccination rollout that will help the nation reach herd immunity, even as the nation confronts unique challenges that could hamper that effort. Luke Hunt reports. Produced by David Potter and Luke Hunt for Voice of America.Watch, read, listen here..

Mud Between Your Toes, a podcast with Peter Wood

Published on Jun 2, 2021 by Luke Hunt

Peter Wood, the author and producer of the Mud Between Your Toes podcasts, interviews Luke Hunt, author of the Punji Trap. They discuss their work and surviving frontlines. Listen here. .

Miss Grand Myanmar

Published on Apr 3, 2021 by Luke Hunt

Han Lay, Myanmar’s representative in the Miss Grand International beauty pageant, will remain in Thailand for security reasons after winning widespread applause for using the event to speak up for the atrocities being committed by the military in her home country.As she was crowned Miss Grand Myanmar 2020 at Saturday’s final in Bangkok, a tearful Han Lay drew thunderous applause as she sang “Heal the World” and pleaded for help, ignoring the pageant’s mantra that contestants remain apolitical.Read more here..

Breathing Life into Art

Published on Apr 3, 2021 by Luke Hunt

A podcast with artist Tyta Buth. At just 24 years of age, Tyta Buth has already established herself at the center of Cambodia’s arts scene. A portrait photographer who attracts hundreds of people to her exhibitions, she encapsulates the rise of a new generation of artists in a country which is rapidly moving away from a past overshadowed by war and genocide.Buth, who trades under the brand name TytaArt, studied Global Business & Design Management at Regent’s University London and Strategic Design Management at Parsons School of Design, The New School, in New York.With a keen eye, she captures the nature of humans in their rawest state or, as she describes it, an exposure of the soul. She spoke with....

Dancing with Mortality

Published on Sep 19, 2020 by Luke Hunt

Excerpts from Face Masks & Hand Gels; A Year of Living Covidly. These works were first published by Howl in Siem Reap, 2021, in response to the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.A near-death experience raises a question for Luke Hunt—international correspondent and author—’should I stay or should I go?’ “… my life review – a euphemism for near death experience or NDE – really didn’t do it for me.”As the new coronavirus took hold about 100 people were doing what they do best, sorting a barbecue, the last to be held in the garden of House Nine on Street 830 in Phnom Penh, my home for the last eight years.Old friends and the odd luminary – famed correspondent Jim Pringle....