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. .

Mafia and War in Myanmar

Published on Jun 2, 2021 by Luke Hunt

 a podcast with Australia-based security-risk consultant Ross Milosevic who has worked across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East for almost three decades but his focus has often remained on Myanmar, which has been torn apart by the February 1 military coup.The bloody protests that followed have pushed Myanmar to the brink of nationwide civil war, with the many ethnic insurgents and ousted politicians rallying against the generals through the establishment of the National Unity Government and the People’s Defense Force.Those military leaders – Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Soe Win, Brigadier General Than Oo and Brigadier General Aung Aung – also head the list of those most wanted by United Nations-backed investigators for the ethnic cleansing of more than....

Trade Unions in Asia

Published on May 16, 2021 by Luke Hunt

A podcast with Wim Conklin who has served as Country Program Director for the Solidarity Center Cambodia for the past five years and has worked on international labor programs in South and Southeast Asia since 1994.In recent years he has also worked closely with garment workers and their employers and the hotel industry. Both sectors have been severely punished by the COVID-19 virus, which has escalated in Cambodia with authorities scrambling to rollout the government’s vaccination program.Conklin spoke with Luke Hunt about the plight of low-paid workers in Cambodia, the difficulties they are facing due to the pandemic, and what industry needs to do once the virus subsides. Listen 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....

China's White Paper

Published on Feb 2, 2021 by Luke Hunt

A podcast with academic Dr. Bradley Murg who has covered China for more than two decades and its impact across the region, particularly the Greater Mekong Subregion.In this podcast, he chats with Luke Hunt about China’s latest White Paper and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its foreign policies within Southeast Asia, in particular the Mekong River and downstream countries, like Cambodia.Murg’s work focuses on Chinese aid and investment policy in Southeast Asia; the political economy of foreign aid; and the politics of the Greater Mekong Sub-region as a whole. Listen here..

A Cambodian Club

Published on Jan 18, 2021 by Luke Hunt

A podcast with Dutch freelance journalist Ate Hoekstra who was this week re-elected President of the Overseas Press Club of Cambodia (OPCC) for a second term and after a difficult year in a world confronted by the COVID-19 pandemic is firmly focussed on 2021.Hoekstra has been based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia since 2012 and also covers Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar and Laos.As a correspondent he regularly writes for the Dutch newspapers Trouw and Het Financieele Dagblad, as well as for Licas News and Deutsche Welle.He spoke with Luke Hunt.Listen Here..

Damned in Cambodia

Published on Jan 15, 2021 by Luke Hunt

A podcast with Ou Virak. As President of the Future Forum think tank in Cambodia Ou Virak has dealt with many contentious issues ranging from human rights to elections and economic analysis to the rise of China.He says the Mekong River, climate change and upstream dam construction are the looming issues that governments around mainland Southeast Asia will be confronted with over the coming years in conjunction with China’s overwhelming influence. Luke Hunt chats with Ou Virak in his latest podcast for The Diplomat. Listen here..

From Phnom Penh with Love

Published on Sep 19, 2020 by Luke Hunt

A podcast with British journalist and television producer Glen Felgate who has just published his first book, “From Phnom Penh with Love; Confessions of a Media Executive,” a fictional tale of a war correspondent hired by a Cambodian businessman to launch a radio station from scratch.The story bears a striking resemblance to Felgate’s own life.As a war correspondent and producer with Reuters he covered conflicts in the Balkans and Africa before moving to Cambodia where he was hired to launch a television network, from scratch. Listen here..

Traveling in Southeast Asia

Published on Jun 29, 2020 by Luke Hunt

A podcast with Marissa Carruthers, a British journalist who spent 10 years working on newspapers in England before moving to Cambodia in 2012. Since then she has edited various publications in Cambodia and contributed to many regional publications.She currently freelances for various newspapers and magazines, specializing in travel, lifestyle and culture, is the Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnamese correspondent for travel trade publisher TTG Asia and often writes for the South China Morning Post.But the travel industry has taken an unprecedented hit from the new coronavirus and Carruthers says the challenges facing destinations, hotels and small business operators are daunting but could be overcome if there’s no second spike with the COVID-19 virus.She says a lack of coherency over what’s....

Rescuing the Endangered

Published on Jun 21, 2020 by Luke Hunt

A podcast with Marcus Hardtke who graduated in environmental law before moving from his native Germany to Southeast Asia where he has earned a no-nonsense reputation when dealing with illegal trading in wildlife and timber more than 25 years ago.He spoke with The Diplomat’s Luke Hunt about the realities of saving pristine wilderness areas from logging and how to trap traders of endangered species, like the pangolin, which Beijing has banned from use in traditional Chinese medicine.To listen click here..