TIME magazine
22 August 2011
Television presenters declaim their love of nature. But they are teaching our children to fear and scorn animals already pushed to the brink of extinction.
TIME magazine
22 August 2011
Television presenters declaim their love of nature. But they are teaching our children to fear and scorn animals already pushed to the brink of extinction.
Aljazeera.net
27 July 2011
If you don’t like hospitals, then you’ll hate Dhaka Hospital during one of the Bangladesh capital’s regular cholera epidemics. But its staff save thousands of lives.
Aljazeera.net
June 2011
“The global war on drugs has failed.” That was the stark conclusion of a recent study by former world leaders. Their words resonate in Asia, which is awash with a highly addictive drug called methamphetamine, better known by its street-names yaba, shabu, ice, speed.
TIME.com
20 June 2011
The Hangover Part II is thick with Bangkok clichés, but it’s not nearly as unflattering to Thais as reports suggest. And when it comes to foreign movie productions, Thailand is laughing all the way to the bank.
TIME magazine
18 April 2011
Balinese spiritualism is a bewildering blend of Hinduism, Buddhism and animism. But the island’s planning code is simple: if you build it, they will come.
TIME.com
15 February 2011
Cholera kills 120,000 people every year, estimates the World Health Organization. Could mass vaccination be a new weapon against an old disease? The world is watching an ambitious new program to vaccinate 160,000 people in the cholera-prone capital of Bangladesh.
TIME.com
1 December 2010
War logs published via WikiLeaks suggest that the U.S. military ignored torture by its Iraqi allies. Those allegations still resonate in Thailand, and not just because this staunch U.S. ally is fighting an insurgency of its own. America and Thailand share a history of torture.
Esquire (UK)
September 2010
They’ve been accused of robbing the dead, ransoming corpses back to loved ones, and practising witchcraft and cannibalism. But what would Bangkok do without its volunteer ambulance crews?
TIME.com
25 August 2010
They’re alien-looking, they’re stealthy, and they can hurt. Can we ever learn to love the jellies? Fernando Boero, the Italian professor behind Jellywatch, thinks we can.
TIME magazine
15 August 2010
If you don’t count a grim 19th-century health regime called the “whey diet,” then the picturesque Swiss town of Heiden has just one historical claim to fame. Fortunately, it’s a big one.