Irreverent, informed and downright eclectic books and reportage from Southeast Asia and beyond
Talk about the rapid dispersal of pop culture around the globe in the digital age. Today David Beckham and Paris Hilton are household names in India. I know it´s not right. But in the 1960s…
The Fab Four might have stormed Mumbai (Bombay in their day) long before they made it to the ashrams of [...]
I was just trawling through my archives and found this story - City of Fakes - from 2006, about Cambodia`s refusal to enforce international copyright laws. Of course, Cambodia is known to be a country where everything is for sale, if only one puts the right amount of dollars on the table. One glorious consequence [...]
While I was in Cambodia last week, I noticed that my 2006 non-fiction title Beyond the Pancake Trench is still available as a photocopied bootleg in several outlets around the country.
My very own work, pirated by nefarious greedy people, does not sell nearly as well as the multitude of Lonely Planet titles that are available [...]