From the Yamuna to the Mekong
Last week, The Asia Foundation's "In Asia" blog published my brief piece on hydropower dam projects on the Mekong River and its potential impacts on Cambodia's livelihoods and fisheries. Have a visit here: http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/2011/02/09/cambodia%E2%80%99s-fish-and-meko...
(picture from foreignpolicy.com) Mongolia is still on my list of places to visit, so I can only imagine what Ulan Bator was like under Soviet rule - and even just one decade ago. This recent blog post...
In recent times, rice and beans have not been on my plate, rather, on my graph paper, scribbled along both the x and y axes. Our professor elevated the importance of these two staple foods in weekly...
From restaurants, hotels to homes, one who wanders the streets of Phnom Penh will come across hundreds of signs in Khmer, but also those in Chinese. Above doorways are Chinese couplets - vertical strips...
Despite devastating loss of life and destruction of physical infrastructure under the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia has made remarkable strides over the past three decades. To continue to achieve sustained...
Asia is in the midst of quite some activity as of late. When is it not? With last week's release of Aung San Suu Kyi, President Obama's whirlwind Asia tour, Cambodia's stampede fatalities, and now this...
A delegation from the office - including myself - visited the bridge where upwards of 450 Cambodians died (today the press reported 456 fatalities) from Monday night's Water Festival stampede. Upon...
Though I have now been in Cambodia for over a week and have left behind incredible India, I do want to mention the focus of my work there. Of rising importance and historic times is transboundary water...
I often write. As a former reporter, I often wrote for not myself but for those friends and strangers alike who may or may not have been interested in what I had to say. Lately, I've been writing to...
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