1970 Freelance journalist formerly staff on Berkshire Mercury/Reading Chronicle, Fleet Street Nes Agency, News Editor Thames Valley News Service. Bureau Chief, Scotland, News of the World, Senior Reporter Investigations, NoW. London. Quit NoW during Wapping Industrial action at News International, 1986.
Southeast Asia Correspondent, The Observer, joint-founder producer of the Observer Film Company with launch film 'Lord of the Golden Triangle' filmed with heroin warlord Khun Sa, in then Burma. Other film credits: 'Burma's Forgotten War'BBC2 with Karen Rebel Army Burma.'No Man Wants to Die' Investigation into the heroin syndicate which sent Briton Derrick Gregory to his death on the gallows in Malaysia for Channel 4 and the 'Observer' 'The Rat Pack' Channel 4 Media Show (presenter) on the media which followed Prince Charles and Princess Diana in Thailand and Laos. 'The Sex Slave Trade LWT for Channel 4 Dispatches - investigation in Thailand by. 'Who Killed Kirsty Jones' Kirsty Wark Productions for C4,
From 1990 worked as freelace out of southeast Asia based in Bangkok and accredited to Observer, London Evening Standard, and the Times.Assignments varied to Turkmenistan to the west and Fiji and Australia to the southeast. These included major events such as the Bali Bombing, 20o4 Tsunami in Thailand, reporting on the stll active Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and the rebel wars in Myanmar (formerly Burma). Latterly work veered more to crime reporting on the murders of British and other nationalities and the influx of foreign criminals to Thailand from former haunts such as the Costa del Sol. On foreign commissioned assignments I have covered stories in the United States, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, Christmas Island, Cocos and Keeling Islands, Fiji, Brazil, Peru, Japan, Turkey, Nigeria,
