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REPORTING SAMPLES

LONGFORM/FEATURES

Nyah Mway: The boy who will forever be 13 - Radio Free Asia

Utica police shooting of teenaged Karen refugee brings new trauma to community haunted by war.

 

Terror in Rohingya refugee camp as boys kidnapped to fight in Myanmar - RFA

Families speak of hiding sons to prevent them from becoming cannon fodder.

 

Silent struggles plague Cambodian refugees in Bangkok - Radio Free Asia

A new government in Thailand offers little change for asylum seekers.

 

How Microloans Betrayed Cambodians - New York Review of Books/The Dial

Originally pitched as a way to lift the rural poor out of poverty, microfinance is driving many borrowers deeper into debt.

 

China Is Choking Off Asia’s Most Important River - Foreign Policy

Upstream dams are destroying the Mekong Basin.

 

A world without men? - PRX/The World

When men go abroad to work, women in Nepal take the lead at home.

 

Meet the Syrian Man Stranded at the Kuala Lumpur Airport for 91 Days and Counting - Pacific Standard

 

Letter From Kathmandu, Nepal: The Omnipresence of Dust - Pacific Standard

 

A Thai Monk Is Using Social Media to Preach Violence Against Muslims - Newsweek

 

Cambodian Orphans Yearn for Answers 40 Years After Fleeing the Khmer Rouge - Time

 

EXPLAINERS/ANALYSIS

EXPLAINED: What are scam parks? - Radio Free Asia

Across Southeast Asia, criminals have found there is big money to be made in human trafficking and bilking victims out of their savings.

 

In Myanmar, a Young Democracy Comes to an Abrupt End - American Prospect

A coup foretold and what comes next.

 

At a Cambodian Lake, a Climate Crisis Unfolds - New York Times 

 A trifecta of climate change, hydropower dams and illegal fishing are threatening the Tonle Sap, and the people who rely on its fish.

 

Rule by law in Southeast Asia - IBA Global Insight

Authoritarian governments are gaining strength not through iron fists, but through the trappings of democratic institutions.
 

INTERVIEWS/Q&A

‘Beijing’s Global Media Offensive’ A Q&A with Joshua Kurlantzick - ChinaFile 

Reinvention: Photographer Xyza Cruz Bacani - Mekong Review 

Where It All Began: Writer Amitav Ghosh - Mekong Review 

Fearless: Activist Ei Thinzar Maung - Mekong Review, 

Press Forward: Interview journalist Anup Kaphle - Mekong Review, 
 

INTERVIEWS/PODCASTS

Southeast Asia’s scam center crackdown conundrum | RFA Insider #27

The Diplomat, Beyond the Mekong

Asian Review of Books 

Southeast Asia, etc. #2 Cambodia: Election 2018

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