Ei Ei Love
Published on Aug 18, 2024 by Luke Hunt
Ei Ei is a Burmese translator, fixer and reporter who covers the civil war in Myanmar from Mae Sot on the Thai border. She has worked with Bomborra since early 2024, among other media outlets including the BBC. Ei Ei also delivers humanitarian assistance across the border for people and children in need..
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Book Depository
Studio Bomborra is sponsoring the Mae Sot Book Depository to deliver books written in English or Burmese for children under eight years of age across the border from Thailand to a school in Myanmar. Key people involved in this are Ei Ei Love, David Armstrong and Luke Hunt. Please do not send money. If, however, you have old, unwanted books at home that are suitable for young children and you're prepared to send them via sea mail, then please post to the following address:Mae Sot Book Depository: 61/21 Rat Uthit Road, Mae Sot Subdistrict, Mae Sot District, Tak Province, 63110, ThailandPlease do not send money. Money is not needed.The school looks after 80 children who have been isolated into relative....
Trafficked
Published on Jul 27, 2024 by Luke Hunt
Judah Tana has spent the last two decades in humanitarian work along the Thailand-Myanmar border where criminal syndicates have revolutionized human trafficking and 21st century slavery into an industry with world-wide turnover in the trillions of dollars. He recorded this podcast with Luke Hunt from Beyond the Mekong. Click here to listen..
Washington's View of Myanmar
Michael Martin is an adjunct fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) . He's also a Washington insider with a firm focus on Myanmar and a civil war that erupted after the military ousted an elected government in early 2021. He spoke with Luke Hunt from Beyond the Mekong. Click here to listen..
Vicheka Kol
Vicheka Kol is a Cambodian filmmaker who has built-up an impressive resume working with her compatriot Rithy Panh and Australian documentary maker David Brown. She has produced for Voice of America and Minnow Films in the UK with Studio Bomborra and conducts her own work shops at Meta House in Phnom Penh..
Condoms & Cabbages
Published on Jul 26, 2024 by Luke Hunt
Mechai Viravaidya has spent the last 50-years at the helm of Thailand's family planning policies and is credited with saving millions of lives through his safe sex campaigns as the HIV-AIDS virus took hold in 1981. Mechai spoke with Luke Hunt from Beyond the Mekong. Click here to listen..
An Editor's Editor
Published on Jun 25, 2024 by Luke Hunt
Alan Parkhouse has edited many of the mastheads around Southeast Asia, including the Phnom Penh Post, the Khmer Times and worked extensively on publications in Bangko. He recorded this podcast with Luke Hunt for his Beyond the Mekong series. Click here to listen..
Defining Genocide
Published on May 14, 2024 by Luke Hunt
A conversation with war crimes lawyer Michael Karnavas.Michael Karnavas is an American-trained lawyer licensed in Massachusetts and Alaska with 40 years of experience focused largely on war crimes and charges of genocide at tribunals in Cambodia, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia.He has worked as a criminal defense lawyer, in state and federal courts in the United States, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the International Tribunal for Rwanda, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), and the International Criminal Court..
