Interviewing Dr. Preecha Tiewtranon – Thailand’s Pioneer of Sex Reassignment Surgery

I recently interviewed Dr. Preecha Tiewtranon, the first surgeon to perform gender reassignment surgery in Thailand in 1975 for Roadbook. A 1965 graduate of Chulalongkorn University, Tiewtranon had studied surgery in the US for eight years. When he returned to work at the renowned Thai university’s plastic surgery unit, he was shocked to see countless […]

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Ko Pha Ngan: Thailand’s tropical refuge, then and now – My long read at Travelfish

My latest reportage is a long read on the island of Koh Phangan in Thailand, with eye witness accounts going back to the 1940s. I arrived on Koh Phangan on March 17th 2020 to update a German language guidebook on the Gulf islands. A few days after my arrival, the update was canceled, thanks to […]

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Interviewed on Bangkok crime fiction at Strange TV

JD Strange aka Bangkok based writer and film producer James Newman interviewed me on Bangkok crime fiction for Strange TV. This is a segment from a longer documentary on Bangkok fiction, currently in production. Thanks, James! Watch the interview here. All my crime fiction titles are currently published by Crime Wave Press.

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