Foreign Correspondent

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Connecting the Concept of Dignity with Transnational Criminal Justice

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Earlier this year, EU Parliamentarian Chloe Ridel was charged with investigating and writing up a report dealing the EU's shortcomings when dealing with transnational repression -- which has risen dramatically over recent years. Her findings and recommendations are just as dramatic and are being reviewed as the EU tussles with countries like Russia and Iran and their extended cross border tentacles.

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The Truth in Hard Places

Easy Listen: My latest podcast is with foreign correspondent Ian Timberlake who has just retired after three decades in the field with retirement beckoning in Bangkok. This was hoot!

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Myanmar's Frontline Poets

Weekend Listen: My latest podcast is with the American journalist Joe Freeman who is co-author of the book “Frontline Poets: The Literary Rebels Taking on Myanmar’s Military,” which includes a collection of gritty poems by five poets from all walks of life in that war torn country.

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Mae Sot a Hub for Cheap Refugee Labour

Weekend Listening: My latest podcast is with Dave Welsh, Country Director for the Solidarity Center in Thailand and Myanmar. It’s about Big Brands and refugees who fled into Mae Sot from War-torn Myanmar where they have little choice but to work in factories for well below the legal minimum wage and in some pretty shoddy conditions.

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Weekend Listening: Vietnam 50th

Weekend Listening: My latest podcast is with the veteran correspondent Huw Watkin, who I recently traveling with through Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam for the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon to the communists.

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Pope Leo and the Polictics of East Asia

China, Vietnam and Myanmar are Pope Leo’s immediate issues in East Asia - UCA News

Leo’s outlook molded by Francis, the Augustinians, Peru, and issues in Rome

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A final radio dispatch from Saigon and the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War for ABC Australia Nightlife program. With a Richard Vogel photograph and with voices from the past, including Neil Davis.

International Affairs - 50 years since the fall of Saigon - ABC listen

Fifty years ago this week, the world was captivated by stunning scenes as the Vietnam war ended, and North Vietnamese troops took Saigon on

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Weekend Listening: My latest podcast is with Magnus Fiskesjo from Cornell University in New York and it's all about the deportation of Uyghurs from Thailand, international law and a shift in Bangkok's foreign policy favoring China.

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FULRO: A War of their Own

Weekend Listening: My latest podcast is with American Will Chickering and it is about his latest book covering the war between the Montagnards and the Vietnamese, on all sides.

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Looting Cambodia

Weekend Listening: My latest podcast is with Canadian filmmaker Don Millar, the director of Loot: A Story of Crime and Redemption – a documentary that focuses on the theft of Cambodian artifacts, the likes of Doug Latchford, dodgy art galleries and those who are bringing these priceless works back home.

Beyond the Mekong

Delve into Southeast Asian geopolitics with The Diplomat's Luke Hunt and guests who know the region and the issues.

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Myanmar a Failed State

Weekend Listen: My latest podcast is with Bradley Murg, a political scientist and affiliate fellow with Pacific Forum who provides his assessment of Myanmar as a failed state. This was recorded before Friday’s tragic earthquake which makes this podcast all the more relevant.

Myanmar as a ‘Failed State’: A Political Scientist’s View

A conversation with academic and researcher Bradley Murg.

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Easy Listening: My latest podcast is with James Gomez from the Asia Centre and it's all about the state of democracy in Southeast Asia and how to hold an election.

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Myanmar: Situation Update

Easy Listening: My latest podcast is a situation update on Myanmar with Paul Greening; the civil war, scam compounds and human trafficking, and Thailand's crackdown on the criminal syndicates along its borders.

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Easy Listen: British journalist Gerald Flynn explains what happened at the airport and why he was banned from Cambodia.

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Trump & ASEAN

Weekend Listen: My latest podcast is about Trump's first weeks as president and his impact in SE Asia, with the Canadian academic Bart Edes.