Gallery: General stories
With the head of the first UN mission to Cambodia, 1989
The first 12 years of my time in Asia I wrote primarily about political and business events. Technology interested me, but primarily as a way to get stories out before the guy from AP. Here’s a selection of stories I wrote from 1988 to 2000:
The inside story of how Indonesia’s Abdurrahman Wahid stole the presidency via the backdoor
An investigative piece that proved how photos depicting the rape of Chinese Indonesian women in the 1998 riots were fake.
A portrait of Indonesia on the verge of revolution as it grapples with the economic crisis in early 1998.
The first Western journalist in a Vietnam military hospital for troubled war veterans.
The last thing working in the Afghan capital under the Taleban.
Except for the Intercontinental, that is.
A prize-winning piece on a forgotten island on the fringes of Hong Kong.
Life inside Indonesia’s gulag.
