journalism

Look! I do real news too! from letterfromthailand 20 days old

This is an article I was commissioned to write for a Sydney-based newspaper called The Irish Echo. It's a pretty well thought of publication with a very ...

Banged up in Dubai from letterfromthailand 55 days old

Mentioning you're a journalist often prompts people to suggest a topic they reckon you should write about. They will generally play a starring role in ...

Exploitation! from letterfromthailand 62 days old

[ ... ] I am a Masters in Journalism graduate and spent much of the past three years working in the media industry for a variety of publications. At ...

Nature is wonderful from letterfromthailand 70 days old

Pitching a tent in the dark wasn't quite the gargantuan challenge I expected it to be so I was soon nodding off ahead of my first day's work on an Australian ...

Brazzers! from letterfromthailand 104 days old

I suffered a disorienting start to my time in Singapore – the spoiled little rich kid and multicultural poster boy of Southeast Asia. I booked a room ...

Hell from letterfromthailand 123 days old

I had one day left in Cambodia before I flew to Australia via Singapore to try my hand at being an immigrant and Stueng Munchey was the last place on ...

Getting my mooch on from letterfromthailand 139 days old

My Cambodian moto driver made the mistake of casually mentioning that he could probably put me up in his rural home for a night or two, and I grabbed ...

Buying mates in Cambodia from letterfromthailand 144 days old

With Songkran quickly fading to a blurry memory I had two weeks in Southeast Asia to kill before I was due to arrive in Australia as an immigrant. Naturally, ...

A spot of bother from letterfromthailand 153 days old

Hangovers and boats are uneasy bedfellows but the wedding I had travelled to the isolated island of Koh Lipe in Thailand's southern-most province for ...

Denis, you're a mong from letterfromthailand 168 days old

My travel companion on my trip to my sister's wedding had inexplicably failed to meet me on a connection flight from Bangkok too the southern Thai city ...