Kung Hei Fat Choi — Website Up-Dated

Published on Feb 14, 2010 by Luke Hunt

HONG KONG, Feb 14, 2010 — Bomborra Productions (BbP) launched its up-dated website on Chinese New Year’s Day, with a significant expansion on its predecessor Bomborra Images which was established five years earlier as a small photo library. BbP offers access to photo, news and feature archives, and serves as a link with a handful of well established journalists, photographers, and satirists operating in East Asia. Bomborra Productions is registered in Hong Kong. .

Bomborra Productions Website Launch

Published on Feb 5, 2010 by Luke Hunt

Bomborra Productions (BbP) will launch its website on Chinese New Year, February 14, 2010. The site is an expansion of Bomborra Images, established five years earlier as a small photo library. BbP offers access to photo, news and feature archives, and serves as a link with a handful of well established journalists operating in East Asia. Bomborra Productions was initially registered in Hong Kong in May, 2008. Regular clients include Voice of America, The Times, The Sunday Bangkok Post, The South China Morning Post, World Politics Review, The Diplomat and The Correspondent. Other prominent media outlets have ranged from ABC Radio in Australia and Readers’ Digest, to AsiaLIFE and The Phnom Penh Post. .

Stiletto by Max Kolbe — January, 2010

Published on Jan 20, 2010 by Luke Hunt

Journo Deaths Strike a Record High in 2009 Thanks largely to the Ampatuan clan on Mindanao a record 121 journalists were killed in 2009. They died in 25 countries, and represented an increase of 33 percent from a year earlier, according to a report released by the Press Emblem Campaign. It said the killings in the Southern Philippines marked the “worst massacre of journalists in history,” when 31 were killed in November during an attack on an electoral convoy in Maguindanao province. “On average 10 journalists were killed per month by armed groups, criminal groups, governments and in terrorist acts,” Blaise Lempen, the group’s secretary general, said. “Others were kidnapped or exiled and in many cases silenced while impunity continues.”....

Death of a Maid

Published on Jan 19, 2010 by Luke Hunt

Photo Feature by Luke Hunt HONG KONG — Vicky Flores was found floating on the Tung Chung bay in Lantau Island on April 11, 2008. Hong Kong police declared her death a suicide after less than a week of investigation. But Flores’ friends and Filipino migrant groups are skeptical and protested in Discovery Bay where she worked and lived over the findings, noting that witnesses saw Flores running away from her employer’s house, barefooted and in pajamas on the day she disappeared. They also said the place where her body was found was a 30-minute ride by bus from her residence. .

Bomborra Background

Published on Jan 1, 2010 by Luke Hunt

Bomborra Images was initially formed by Luke Hunt as a photo archive in January 2005. Original designs and site construction was built by the journalist Diane Stormont in Hong Kong while South African correspondent Rob Carmichael made significant contribtions. With a heavy emphasis on Asia, other contributors followed and included Australian journalists Paul Ruffini and Liam Cochrane and the American writer and film maker Dan Boylan. Bomborra Images remains under control of Bomborra Productions, registered in Hong Kong, controlled and owned by Hunt. .