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A friend got slapped with a fine over this. He's a foreign resident, and he changed hotels while on a trip. That information is bundled up and sent to the authorities, and they cro…

here's a Reddit account on finding fake rice: https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/4u06wk/i_bought_fake... it's black rice, which if you've never had it, you might've seen it in…

When his fixer Dith Pran died, the NPPA magazine News Photographer talked about Schanberg's reporting and how it placed you on the bridge when the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh --…

The general complaint is that Cambodia is under Vietnamese influence, mostly stemming from its backing of and leading the defectors who overthrew the Khmer Rouge. People today comp…

I was once talking to Dougald O'Reilly, an archaeologist from Australian National University who's done a lot of research at Angkor Wat. He was talking about having just published …

>> I wonder if it will accelerate the pace of restoration of temples in the area. Likely not; current restoration projects are a shitshow, with an utter lack of coordination and ev…

Can't wait to get details of this game here in Shanghai via VPN

Missed opportunity: the photo editor could've folded out the newspapers and shown ads below the fold. Would've looked great paired with the headline

You could search PGP keyservers for email addresses/domains of the local media where that retirement fund is located and take it from there, using your own judgment about the repor…

The Blackberry alternative that was suggested to Obama was the Sectera Edge by General Dynamics, which made the F-16 before it was sold to Lockheed http://www.networkworld.com/arti…

Per-word rates are the most common in English; in German language, it's per character. Sometimes news outlets will establish a relationship with a freelancer that use dto be called…

In the US news business, $100k/month is strictly the domain of TV on-screen personality presenters; i.e., not the reporters, but network affiliate anchors who are referred to in-ho…

The phrase you would be looking to use in your pitch to the editor would be to offer it 'on spec'. Some publications mandate that the first piece they get from new freelancers will…

Just to be sure, I'm more used to seeing 50% kill fees, at least from Asia and West Africa (for Western or Western-run publications). 50% is customary, and with established clients…

I'm a journalist; lots of my colleagues were floored watching the doc about the NYT, "Page One," when David Carr tells his editor, "I'm doing two more weeks of reporting on this, t…

Gmail's conversation threading, or the Thunderbird Conversations addon, are the only thing I wish for with Mutt. I once asked on the mutt mailing list about this, but the solutions…

have you tried a Chinatown gift shop? The kind of place that sells baoding balls, incense and kitschy porcelain?