This is the second installment of a six-part story by Paul Spencer Sochaczewski. In the first installment, the Geneva-based author took us to Indonesia to meet the sultan of a city built on a ghost story. In this installment, excerpted exclusively from...
Paul Spencer Sochaczewski taps his fertile imagination and vast knowledge of Southeast Asia in this short story, his fourth published by News-Decoder. Previously, the Geneva-based writer entertained readers with alluring yarns about the South China Sea, Borneo and...
By Jonathan Thatcher After the world’s largest ever democratic election in a single day last week, Indonesia’s 20-year-old democracy is looking reassuringly predictable. There was even an indignant post-election sulk by the losing candidate, who claimed, as he did...
I went to Myanmar on a whim, and it was the best decision I could ever have made. (All photos by Sam Graves) By Sam Graves These are photos I took during my first trip to Myanmar in June 2018. I had been teaching in Vietnam and was able to travel all over Southeast...
By Deborah Charles Twenty years ago I used to talk to Aung San Suu Kyi over a spotty telephone connection to Yangon from Bangkok, or in person when I managed to get into Myanmar and she was free to accept visitors in the house that served as her prison for 15 years....