Launch of Ashes from Annam

Published on Feb 20, 2022 by Luke Hunt

The much anticipated Ashes from Annam, written by Thierry de Roland Peel was launched on Feb 20. at Raffles Le Royale in Phnom Penh. About 150 guest arrived as Peel delivered a robust speech about his family's life and tragedies towards the end of World War II in Saigon. And of course the adventures of the family dog Mephisto..

Myanmar and the Media

Published on Jul 24, 2021 by Luke Hunt

A podcast with Australian journalist Liam Cochrane, a former foreign correspondent for the ABC, who has traveled the Asia-Pacific region filing for television, radio, and digital platforms. As a specialist VJ – a solo video journalist – he has held ABC postings in Thailand and covered Myanmar extensively.Cochrane currently lectures at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne. He spoke with Luke Hunt about colleagues who have been detained by the military junta in Myanmar.Listen here..

A Podcast with Lindsay Murdoch AOM

Published on Jul 24, 2021 by Luke Hunt

Australian correspondent Lindsay Murdoch has been awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) on this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to journalism after spending most of his five decades in journalism covering upheavals across Southeast Asia.Murdoch began his career working on the Warragul Guardian in southeast Australia in 1968 and joined The Age in Melbourne in 1977 as a police reporter. Starting from the mid-1980s, spent he spent 25 years as a foreign correspondent throughout Asia for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.Murdoch is also a veteran of the wars in Iraq, was among the first journalists to reach Banda Aceh, Indonesia after the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004, and covered the carnage in East Timor in....

An Australian Priest Abroad

Published on Apr 3, 2021 by Luke Hunt

A documentary on Fr Mick Kelly by the ABC. For decades, the Union of Catholics in Asia News (UCAN) has serviced Catholics across Asia with its coverage of the Catholic Church and Catholic concerns in the region, becoming the largest Catholic news service in Asia and one of the biggest in the world. In recent years, under the stewardship of Jesuit priest Fr. Mick Kelly, UCAN has expanded even more rapidly. Watch here. .

A Cambodian Club

Published on Jan 18, 2021 by Luke Hunt

A podcast with Dutch freelance journalist Ate Hoekstra who was this week re-elected President of the Overseas Press Club of Cambodia (OPCC) for a second term and after a difficult year in a world confronted by the COVID-19 pandemic is firmly focussed on 2021.Hoekstra has been based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia since 2012 and also covers Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar and Laos.As a correspondent he regularly writes for the Dutch newspapers Trouw and Het Financieele Dagblad, as well as for Licas News and Deutsche Welle.He spoke with Luke Hunt.Listen Here..