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This year in Bhutan
September 2003 • 7,074 words • Reportage & Criticism
I was walking in the mountains of western Bhutan, with a guide and two muleteers, along the high path that leads from Thimphu to Paro, from the capital of this pocket-sized Himalayan state to its only airport. … more»
Through a lens, darkly
25 November 2005 • 1,205 words • Reportage & Criticism
A quarter of a century on, the mass killings in Cambodia still hold the world record for state terror. No government has murdered a greater… more»
The invisible enemy
29 November 1993 • 15,670 words • Reportage & Criticism
Route Ten in western Cambodia leads from the provincial capital, Battambang, the country’s second largest city, to mountains near the Thai border where a no-go… more»
Don’t be sad! Listen to this story!
1988 • 4,400 words • Reportage & Criticism
At Lingshi the mail-runner cried in his sleep. His father was sick. He dreamed he died. I dreamed I had long hair and no hat and lived in the forest on precious stones. They were rubies, dragon food … more»
The joy of textiles
February 1996 • 1,281 words • City of Words
My forebears on my father’s father’s side were silk merchants in Macclesfield, in England. During the industrial revolution they pioneered the mechanized, factory-based process that… more»
Disneyland for Dictators
7 December 1998 • 1,253 words • City of Words
We live in the twilight of the dictators. Or we hope we do. The military strongmen of South America are long gone. Many of the… more»
Saving Angkor
16 January 1996 • 1,113 words • City of Words
It’s back in 1993 and I’m seeing Angkor for the first time—gazing down from the porthole of a Russian military helicopter at the huge, geometrically ordered… more»
Craftsmen of Hokkaido
November 1995 • 1,140 words • City of Words
A package arrives from my old teacher, from Japan. “Printed matter,” it says on the outside, “no commercial value”. But the contents are precious. For… more»
A nuclear wrestling match
1 June 1998 • 899 words • City of Words
In Baluchistan twenty-five years ago, in Pakistan’s wild west—where five nuclear devices were detonated last week—I and my school-friend Khalid found ourselves stranded for a day… more»
In Khartoum and Jelalabad the misery goes on
25 August 1998 • 884 words • City of Words
The provincial city of Jelalabad, once the winter capital of Afghan kings, stands… more»
