Alastair McCready
@AlMcCready1
Freelance producer @AJEnglish. Former APAC editor with @viceworldnews and Editor-in-Chief at @sea_globe
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23-11-2016 10:10:22
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17/ A sincere THANK YOU to those who dared to speak to me, despite facing intimidation & the risk of losing jobs or contracts.
If you have tips about United Nations #corruption , my DMs are open. You can also send a message through my website, simona-foltyn.com
.United Nations managers are trying to discredit me personally to brush aside the issues raised in my The Guardian report, multiple sources told me.
That is ironic. In March UNDP Iraq invited me to a workshop to train others on how to investigate corruption. My credentials were good then.
Massive coincidence that Daily Mail Online interviewed EXACTLY the same Taiwanese voter I did, in exactly the same place, and she gave exactly the same quotes 🤔If you rip off on-the-ground reporting, at least attribute..
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
‘Cheaper than beer’: Laos meth prices plummet as Myanmar chaos fuels trade
Great reporting by Alastair McCready aje.io/56wvjx via Al Jazeera English
.Southeast Asia Globe's final double feature!
Last week, Andrew Haffner and I dug into #Cambodia 's big bet on coal and carbon credit rush. Our stories take you from the jungles of the Cardamom Mountains to the reaches of Oddar Meanchey.
Our paywall is down. Take a read ⬇️
... in a country where land rights and environmental protections wither in the face of political clout and profit-seeking. Read more at the link here Southeast Asia Globe, with credit to Anton L. Delgado, Meng Kroypunlok, rounry and SourceMaterial.
southeastasiaglobe.com/carbon-ambitio…
In recent months, the Southern Cardamom REDD+ project in Cambodia has garnered controversy as a kind of negative poster-child for the global carbon credit market. With support from Earth Journalism Network, we spent nearly a week total with local communities. Here's what we found. 🧵
Great reporting here from Alastair McCready on the role of SEZs like Boten and the Golden Triangle on organised crime activity in Laos.
Boten and the GTSEZ are two of the darkest places I have reported from and this piece does a great job diving into them
asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Asia…