Inside a changing Burma
The following were taken during my ten-day visit last month to Burma, where I was reporting on the country’s remarkable political opening. The trip took me from the old colonial capital Rangoon, to Naypyidaw, its revolution-proof predecessor four hours’ drive to the north. The new capital, which welcomed thousands of reluctant civil servants in late...
Bengal, east and west
Here are a few photos from my recent reporting trip to eastern India and Bangladesh. Over six weeks, I took in Calcutta , far too much of Dhaka and some of the more outlying parts of Bangladesh. Based on my trips up to Sylhet and Joypurhat, in the north and west of the country, I...
A week in Vladivostok
Earlier this month I spent about eight days in Vladivostok, researching stories on the Russian Far East’s rampant illegal logging trade and the city’s transformation ahead of next year’s APEC Summit. For all the rhetoric about being Russia’s “Asian” city, some 9,000 kilometres east of Moscow, Vladivostok is surprisingly occidental in its bearing, like a...
China, from Harbin to Beijing
Here is a gallery of photos from my recent trip to China, which took me from Harbin in northern Heilongjiang province to the Russian border and then back along the tip of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to Yanji, the capital of the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture (延边朝鲜族自治洲). The region, abutting the North Korean...
Around Dhaka
Here are some photos from my recent sojourn in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where I spent some time this month visiting friends and chasing a few stories (some of which will hopefully come to fruition in the next few weeks). The city — one of the fastest growing metropolises on earth — is so bewilderingly large that...
Burmese days
The following were taken during my three weeks roaming across Burma last month. Click here to see my set of photos from Naypyidaw, the Burmese junta’s remote new capital city.
