Feedback & Other Hate Mail

Published on Dec 9, 2011 by Luke Hunt

As part of an occasional series AsiaWATCH is publishing links to the more controversial articles of late and the sometimes terse response they elicited.AsiaWATCH won kudos for this piece on the Eurozone debt crisis as it spirals from one embattled bond market to the next.It said; It is becoming clear we are likely heading into a double dip global recession. Whilst economic fundamentals of the United States may in fact be improving, investor pessimism is quickly spreading across the globe.Headlined: Khmer Rouge: Vietnam Did It! The Diplomat’s Luke Hunt scored another lawyer of scorn from those opposed to the Khmer Rouge Tribnal currently underway in Phnom Penh.He wrote: Old hatreds die hard, and nowhere has this been more evident than....

Dan Boylan

Published on Jan 1, 2008 by Luke Hunt

Dan Boylan worked on his first political campaign at the age of 11 and by 18 witnessed the protests in Tiananmen Square.Boylan’s journalism career began soon after in his native Boston before he covered Asia as a freelance correspondent during the Hong Kong Handover and Asian Economic Crisis of 1998.Boylan worked as an International News Editor at Associated Press HQ in New York City, won a Fulbright Fellowship for research in Jakarta, then completed a Journalism Professorship in Shanghai and wrote for The Washington Times.Across the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia post 9/11, Boylan served as a public affairs advisor to the US Military and other foreign governments. He currently writes essays on politics, literature, language and culture, and....

Karl Wilson

Published on Jan 1, 2008 by Luke Hunt

Karl Wilson has been a journalist for more than 35 years.  He began his career on the The Australian in 1972. In 1976 was posted to London where he covered assignments in Northern Ireland, Europe and Africa. For the last 20 years he was based in Asia where he was foreign editor of the South China Morning Post, editor of the Sunday Standard, foreign editor of the Eastern Expressand editor of The Standard in Hong Kong.From 2004 till August 2009 he was bureau chief in Manila for Agence France-Presse. From September 2009 to December 2010 he was the Philippine correspondent for The National in Abu Dhabi. He returned to Australia in 2011 and was appointed Australia/South East Asian correspondent for....

Luke Hunt

Published on Jan 1, 2008 by Luke Hunt

Luke Hunt is a correspondent who writes, photographs and produces television packages out of Southeast Asia. Much of his work is divided between The Diplomat, Australian Associated Press (AAP) and Voice of America. He has also freelanced for The Economist, The New York Times, The Times of London and The Age in Melbourne, among many others.He began his career in journalism in the early 1980s after traveling through what was then some of the world’s trouble-spots, including Northern Ireland and the south of Morocco. Hunt initially worked for AAP and then Agence France-Presse where he served as bureau chief in Afghanistan and Cambodia and later as Deputy Economics Editor for Asia.Additionally, he has covered conflicts in Iraq, Sri Lanka, Kashmir....

Max Kolbe

Published on Jan 1, 2008 by Luke Hunt

Pages From The CorrespondentSTILETTO Max Kolbe (stí-létó ) n. pl. sti·let·tos or sti·let·toes A small dagger with a slender, tapering blade. Something shaped like such as a dagger.Old Favourites Find Form — February, 2011Pakistan Tops the Killing Fields — December, 2010The Kinder, The Detained, The Self-Medicated — October, 2010Death Rate Rises as Talibs Establish a Media Centre — July 2010Thailand Goes Bloody — May, 2010Clan Ampatuan & the Munganao Flaks — March, 2010Journo Deaths Strike a Record High in 2009 — January, 2010Mexican Mayhem Flavored with a Singapore Sling — November, 2009Counting the Cost of Freedom — September, 2009Courting the Law and Silencing Critics — July, 2009Why Shoot? Just Legislate and Jail — May, 2009Minor Miracles & Dirty Cops —....