Selected Writing
“The Terrible Tiger”
Foreign Policy, April 18, 2012
“Interlok Stirs Ethnic, Political Waters in Malaysia”
The Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2012
“Dilemmas of Foreign Aid”
Dissent, Winter 2011
“Singapore Embraces Art to Enhance Its Image” [PDF]
The Los Angeles Times, December 4, 2011
“Cambodia Trial of Three Khmer Rouge Leaders Set to Begin” [PDF]
The Guardian, November 20, 2011
Audio Clip of Interview with BBC Radio’s The World Today, October 27, 2011
“Vietnamese Communist Party Steadily Ratchets Up the Pressure” [PDF]
The Guardian, October 25, 2011
“Vietnam Dissidents Forced to Flee after Exposing Communist Crackdown” [PDF]
The Guardian, October 25, 2011
“Huge in Asia” [PDF]
Foreign Policy, September/October 2011
“Phnom Penh, Again”
DestinAsian, August/September 2011
“Thailand’s Fate is in the Stars” [PDF]
The Los Angeles Times, July 3, 2011
“Cambodia’s Up-and-Coming Seaside Towns” [PDF]
The Washington Post, May 22, 2011
“Malaysia at Economic Crossroads as It Fights the Great Brain Drain” [PDF]
The Guardian, April 21, 2011
“Malaysia’s First Film with Gay Lead Characters Breaks Taboo” [PDF]
The Guardian, March 18, 2011
“Vietnam Cracks Down on Online Critics ahead of Communist Congress” [PDF]
The Guardian, January 10, 2010
“Cambodia’s Democratic Warrior”
The New Republic, December 2, 2010
“Reconciliation Efforts Force Khmer Rouge Veterans to Confront Past” [PDF]
The Washington Post, December 1, 2010
“Mixing It Up in Singapore”
DestinAsian, December/January 2011
“World Cinema: Cambodians Take Hard Self-Look” [PDF]
The Los Angeles Times, November 28, 2010
“Vann Molyvann: Cambodia’s Forgotten Architect” [PDF]
The Los Angeles Times, November 14, 2010
“Values Voters: The Pan-Islamic Party of Malaysia”
Foreign Policy, October 12, 2010
“Vietnamese Dissidents: Absent from the Western Mind”
Dissent, Summer 2010
“Dengue Fever Brings Cambodian Rock Back to Phnom Penh” [PDF]
The Los Angeles Times, May 23, 2010
“Letter from Vietnam”
The Nation, May 23, 2008
“Blogging the Coup” [PDF]
Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 2008
“At Last, a Trial for Khmer Rouge Atrocities” [PDF]
The American Scholar, Autumn 2007
“The Communist Way” [PDF]
Columbia Journalism Review, January/February 2007
“Vietnam’s Easy Rider”
The Washington Post, November 13, 2005
