Dan Southerland, Author at Asia Times

AT Finance, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam

SE Asia slowly but surely sinking into the sea

by Dan Southerland January 8, 2020February 18, 2020

Ho Chi Minh City is constantly flooded, while Bangkok continues to sink below sea level. It sounds like a science fiction movie set in Southeast Asia. But it’s what experts predict will happen within the next two to three decades in the major Vietnamese and Thai metropolises if current trends hold. A recent study referred […]

AT Finance, Cambodia

Remembering Cambodia’s brutal Brother No 2

by Dan Southerland August 17, 2019February 18, 2020

高地族基督徒在越南一個森林裡的臨時教會祈禱。相片：Facebook / Campaign to End Torture in Vietnam

AT Finance, Vietnam

為越南被遺忘的高地族禱告

by Dan Southerland October 16, 2018February 18, 2020

Ethnic Montagnard Christians pray at a makeshift forest church in Vietnam. Photo: Facebook/Campaign to End Torture in Vietnam

AT Finance, Cambodia, Laos, Middle East, Northeast Asia, South Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, World

Say a prayer for Vietnam’s forgotten Montagnards

by Dan Southerland October 13, 2018February 18, 2020

當林業官員從泰國廊曼機場的野生動物走私者手上查獲了64隻受保護的黑色沼澤龜和245隻穿山甲後，其中一隻穿山甲對重獲自由投以疑惑眼光。相片：AFP via Bangkok Post / Sarot Meksophawannakul

AT Finance, South Asia, Thailand

東南亞聯手打擊野生動物走私活動

by Dan Southerland September 18, 2018February 18, 2020

A pangolin takes a quizzical look at freedom after forestry officials seized 245 of them, along with 64 protected black swamp turtles, from wildlife smugglers at Don Mueang Airport in Thailand. Photo: AFP via Bangkok Post / Sarot Meksophawannakul

AT Finance, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Middle East, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, South Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, World

Fight is on to save SE Asia’s exotic wildlife

by Dan Southerland September 15, 2018February 18, 2020

Vietnam War reporter Dan Southerland takes notes with conflict raging in the background in Saigon, May 1968. Photo: UPI/Bill Snead (used with permission)

AT Finance, Australia, Cambodia, China, Oceania, Russia, South Asia, Vietnam, World

War reporter reflects on Vietnam’s will to move on

by Dan Southerland March 7, 2018February 18, 2020

Timber smugglers drive illegally cut logs from Cambodia's Virachey National Park to the Vietnam border in February 2017. Photo: Environmental Investigation Agency

AT Finance, Cambodia, China, European Union, Hong Kong, Laos, Middle East, Northeast Asia, South Asia, Vietnam, World

Cambodia, Laos losing the last of their trees

by Dan Southerland February 27, 2018February 18, 2020

A Vietnamese couple hawks coal bricks in downtown Hanoi in a file photo. Vietnam plans to expand its use of coal for its fast rising energy needs. Photo: AFP/Hoang Dinh Nam

AT Finance, Australia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Oceania, Russia, Shanghai, Singapore, South Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, World

Energy dilemma weighs on Vietnam

by Dan Southerland August 21, 2017February 18, 2020

Under threat: A swirling school of jack fish in the Spratly Islands of the South China Sea. The island chain is part of 600 islands, reefs and shoals environmentalists consider a biodiversity "hotspot." Photo: Reuters/David Loh

AT Finance, Beijing, Brunei, China, Malaysia, Northeast Asia, Philippines, South Asia, Taiwan, Vietnam

Ecological hotspot under geopolitical fire

by Dan Southerland April 1, 2017February 18, 2020

Unsustainable fishing practices and ramped up construction activities in the South China Sea imperil one of the world's richest fishing environments. Photo: Reuters/Tim Wimborne

AT Finance, Australia, Beijing, China, Oceania, Philippines, Singapore, South Asia, Taiwan, Vietnam, World

A sea in peril

by Dan Southerland March 25, 2017February 18, 2020