About

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Photographed on assignment in Pakistan by John Stanmeyer; and some cover stories.

I am a British author and journalist based in Bangkok. I won a Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting in 2014.

My book The Trouser People (Penguin, 2003), about football and dictatorship in Burma, was a New York Times Notable Book and was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. I am also co-author of The Cult at the End of the World (Random House, 1996), a prescient account of Japan’s homicidal Aum cult and the rise of high-tech terrorism. My books have been translated into ten languages.

Since 1993 I have explored Asia’s remotest regions for magazines and newspapers worldwide, including TIME, The Sunday Times Magazine, National Geographic, Esquire, and many others. In January 2012 I joined Reuters, where I am Southeast Asia Special Correspondent. I have won three Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Awards for Editorial Excellence for TIME magazine, and four more with my Reuters colleagues.