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Bangkok photo exhibit portrays plight of Myanmar refugees, in Nikkei Asia

October 20, 2022October 20, 2022tom

My latest story in Nikkei Asia is about ‘Endless Escape’, an exhibition currently at BACC in Bangkok, documenting the plight of refugees trying to flee fighting and government repression in Myanmar by crossing into Thailand and getting trapped, pushed back or killed along the border. BANGKOK — “If you exhibit a photo like this (of […]

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From the Archives: Pol Pot’s Sheet Metal Roof

May 1, 2010May 15, 2011tomLeave a Comment on From the Archives: Pol Pot’s Sheet Metal Roof

The following text is an account of a journey to the grave of Pol Pot near Anlong Veng, Cambodia in 2002. It is part of my non fiction book Beyond the Pancake Trench – Road Tales from the Wild East, published by Orchid Books in 2005, which made Book of the Week in the South […]

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