TIME magazine
9 November 2009
Nobody can deny there is something special about Switzerland. Just ask the Swiss. Their sense of exceptionalism is based on being both central to the world and aloof from it. But what does it mean to be authentically Swiss? These days the country isn’t so sure.
TIME magazine
19 October 2009
Among Manchester United Football Club’s 300 million supporters worldwide is Gen. Than Shwe, Burma’s xenophobic dictator. That English football is one of Than Shwe’s passions might seem trivial, but it raises a serious question. With the West now engaging Burma’s generals after 20 years of censure and sanctions, how well do we really know the junta?
The Smithsonian Magazine
October 2009
“This is a serious criminal act. You’re killing people. It’s premeditated, coldblooded murder.” Meet the forensic investigators who are using cutting-edge tools to fight China’s deadly export of fake anti-malaria drugs.
Dispatches Magazine
June 2009
Dhaka is a seething, fractious, heart-bruising place. It is also a climate change experiment writ huge. Dump millions of people into low-lying slums between filthy, flood-prone rivers; raise the sea levels; melt the glaciers; and unleash cyclones and climate-sensitive diseases. Then double the population of those slums every decade.
Power Magazine
February 2009
The Yellow River is polluted by factories, throttled by hydroelectric dams, and sucked dry by the thirsty millions living in China’s newly prosperous cities. A third of its fish species are dead. “When the Yellow River is calm, the people live in peace,” says a Maoist slogan. But what does it mean for China when the river is dying?
TIME magazine
29 January 2009
Burma VJ, a self-styled documentary about the 2007 democracy uprising, has been nominated for an Oscar. But reconstructions undermine the film’s credibility and dishonor the very profession its subjects risk their lives to pursue.
The Sunday Times Magazine
13 April 2008
It’s a Buddhist temple that cares for dying Aids patients. It’s also a hugely successful money-making operation, attracting thousands of tourists by putting terminally ill people and mummified corpses on show. So where does all that money go?
National Geographic Magazine
January 2008
Geography has dealt Indonesia a wild card. Nowhere else do so many people live so close to so many active volcanoes—129 by one count. Of these, Mt. Merapi is natural-born killer. An eruption in 1930 claimed 1,300 lives, and even in less deadly times plumes drift menacingly from its peak.
The Sunday Times Magazine
5 December 2007
Manchester City fans once regarded him as their saviour—but Thai investigators believe they can prove his government was responsible for a shoot-to-kill policy that endorsed mass murder. Andrew Marshall meets both Thaksin Shinawatra and the families of those who were killed under his rule
TIME magazine
11 October 2007
I am wedged among monks and thousands of other pro-democracy protesters near the Sule Pagoda in Rangoon. Facing us are hundreds of soldiers and riot police, who finger their assault rifles. “You should get closer,” says the young Burmese woman behind me. “If foreigners are there they won’t shoot.” She is terribly wrong.