Gwen Robinson – Tom Vater

Some of my best recent stories in the Nikkei Asian Review

June 23, 2018June 23, 2018tomLeave a Comment

From a punk rock collective in Borneo to European proto-colonies and ethnic minorities in India, rock stars and a circus from Cambodia, the scourge of development in Laos, female motorcycle taxi drivers in Thailand, Japanese entrepreneurs in France and my eye witness reports of the 2015 Nepal earthquake, the Asian Nikkei Review has published some […]

Owner of the Map – Power, politics & motorcycle taxis in Thailand at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand

April 21, 2018October 15, 2018tomLeave a Comment

Packed night at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Bangkok on the rights and politics of the city’s 200.000 motorcycle taxi drivers. From left to right – fixer extraordinaire Jan Sujittra, president of the Bangkok motorcycle Association Khun Chaloem Changtongmadun, Chief Editor of the Nikkei Asian Review Gwen Robinson, journalist Laure Siegel and myself.