The other side of prostitution in Thailand
I recently had a short video on sex workers in Thailand published at VJMovement. If you’re not familiar with the site, it’s definitely worth checking out. It’s my hope that this is the direction of videojournalism in the future, with communities forming between audience and journalists and intimate story-telling taking the place of larger impersonal [...]
Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam
Back in Thailand after four weeks traveling, photos and videos to come soon, but red-shirt protests possibly to turn violent today, so will cover and update tonight if any clashes with government forces.
Click map to see my route through Cambodia, Vietnam and southern Laos.
Blood on the streets of Thailand
An opposition group to the current ruling party of the Thai Parliament last Tuesday collected blood from its supporters to throw on the gates of the government house, governing party’s headquarter’s, and prime minister’s home.
This video was taken over the course of the day as blood was collected, paraded through Bangkok, and splashed on the [...]
Red-shirts protest in Bangkok
Thousands of protestors have descended on Bangkok for the past seven days, and although the rally is losing steam, traffic remains shut in a large area of of downtown that houses most governmental offices.
Resembling a music festival, the protest has consisted mostly of rhetoric, cheering, camping out, and spicy papaya salad – all accompanied by [...]
Mud on the lens
(photo Wally Santana – AP)
Two weeks ago I stood on top of the remains of a mountain village in southern Taiwan. Fifty feet of boulders and mud dislodged from the top of a nearby mountain by Typhoon Morakot’s rains lay between me and at least 200 people that were buried as they [...]
Suu Kyi sentenced tomorrow, Viktor Bout extradited to US?
The verdict for Aung Sun Suu Kyi is expected again tomorrow in Burma, after a delay of almost two weeks that I last wrote about here. After the last delay on July 31, Larry Jagan, a journalist/activist/Burmese specialist, said he expected a verdict on August 11, but reports yesterday that John Yettaw, the American who [...]
Feeding the beast – screaming contest in Pattaya
A screaming contest, especially when the no one beats the Guinness world record, isn’t the breaking news that journalists fight over, but cute puppies and strange contests always draw views online.
I was in Pattaya, Thailand, to cover the contest on Saturday, and shot, edited and uploaded my footage to our London bureau before catching a [...]
Suu Kyi Verdict – Red Shirts Campaign for King’s Pardon
Myanmar is set to hand down its verdict tomorrow in the case of Aung Sung Suu Kyi, the face of government opposition in the country. Suu Kyi could serve up to five years in prison if convicted, and according to her lawyers in an interview with the Associated Press this week, the chances an outright [...]
AP covers Clinton’s touchdown
This clip and those in the next two posts are part of a larger story I’m working on chronicling the way AP correspondents work in Bangkok. While the larger project is underway, I’ll try to post short updates like this. The AP journalist covering the arrival in the clips is Raul Gallego, a Spanish photojournalist [...]
Running into the rain
When it rains it pours, and despite the clockwork rains every afternoon in Bangkok’s rainy season, internationally relevant news has been a bit more finicky in the land of tuk-tuks and durians.
Temperatures can rise quickly in a land that has seen its leadership deposed in 17 coups in the last 77 years, however, and Prime Minister [...]
AP Internship – Backpack Journalism Takes on Thailand
I’ve decided to take the opportunity of my first post here to pass on some of the details of the voyage I’m departing on Thursday. If it were by ship, the cured meats, fruit, and of course, rum, would already be below decks, with only a few last sacks of flour before the lines were [...]