a note on contributors
Chris Holm | Jillian Yorke | Jake Lloyd-Smith | Janna Hamilton | Kay Johnson | Vaudine England | Vaughan Yarwood | Teri Fitsell | Michael Field | Sudeepta Vyas | Sudha Ramachandran | Emma Moore
Emma Moore completed the Auckland University of Technology's graduate diploma in journalism in 2005. She worked at China Daily's website in Beijing on an AUT internship exchange programme and is now an editor
and newscaster at China Radio International.
Chris Holm copy edits and writes for the Jakarta Post and contributes to a range of local and international media. He is also an Indonesia correspondent for Radio New Zealand and Radio Television Hong Kong.
After finishing a degree in English literature at Victoria University in Wellington, Chris spent time in Malaysia teaching English before moving back to New Zealand, where he completed a Diploma in Journalism at Massey University in 1999. He then worked at www.scoop.co.nz, before relocating to Jakarta, Indonesia where he now lives.
Jillian Yorke has lived in Japan since 1978 and was founder and vice-president of the International Golf Research Institute, and editor of Japan Golf Report, the first English-language trade publication about Japanese golf.
A freelance cross-cultural trainer, writer, teacher, and consultant, Jillian also works part-time for Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, where she translates and edits sensitive documents (including some for the METI Minister and the Prime Minister of Japan). She compiles weekly online English lessons for the staff of METI. Her weekly English lessons and cross-cultural explanations, based on Japanese manga (four-frame cartoons), can be read online at www.esampo.com/work.
Jillian has co-authored two books with Rochelle Kopp - How to Improve Your English Through E-Mail Correspondence, and How to Work Well With Non-Japanese - both written in Japanese and published in 2003. She is co-founder, CEO, and Japanese liaison of Aspire New Zealand: Creative Education and ESL Learning Centre, www.aspire-english.co.nz.
Jillian serves as a member of the Board of the New Zealand Society of Japan. Her articles and translations have appeared in many publications.
She received a B.A. in Japanese Language and Literature, and a Diploma in Criminology from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Jake Lloyd-Smith is a Singapore-based freelance journalist with ten years' reporting and editing experience. Regular clients include the Financial Times, Time magazine and the London Evening Standard. He has also worked as a news editor and reporter for London's Independent, and Hong Kong's South China Morning Post.
Janna Hamilton was a reporter at the Phnom Penh Post from December 2004 until July 2005. She arrived at the Post as the recipient of an Asia New Zealand Foundation eight-week scholarship awarded at the end of her Massey University postgraduate diploma in journalism. Finding that reporting in Cambodia was too interesting to give up at the end of the scholarship period, she remained in the newsroom, writing about human rights abuses, illegal forestry and the anticipated Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal. Now back in New Zealand, she is focusing on other writing interests, which include adventure sport and travel for newspapers and lifestyle magazines.
Kay Johnson is Time magazine's Vietnam correspondent, having moved there in 2001 after nearly five years in Cambodia, where she wrote for Deutsche Presse-Agentur, the South China Morning Post, the Australian and the Daily Telegraph. In 2003, she was awarded the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University in California, and spent the next year studying globalisation and international law at Stanford. She returned to Hanoi in 2004.
She occasionally consults as a journalism trainer for Internews, an NGO specialising in training journalists in developing countries - work that she finds very rewarding. She drives a 1959 Vespa 150 and her ambition is to spend more quality time with her tailor.
Vaudine England is a freelance journalist and historian and formerly Indonesia correspondent, then Bangkok-based regional correspondent, for the South China Morning Post. She is the author of The Quest of Noel Croucher, Hong Kong's Quiet Philanthropist, (1998), published by The Croucher Foundation and Hong Kong University Press.
The recipient of several journalism awards, Vaudine has been a stringer and Jakarta bureau chief for the Far Eastern Economic Review, and has worked for print and broadcast media including the Asian Wall Street Journal, the Weekend Australian, Newsweek and the International Herald Tribune as well as for BBC Radio and BBC World Television. From 1993 to 1995 she was an editor on the Asia regional desk of Reuters News Agency and earlier was a news producer and East Asian current affairs commentator on BBC World Service Radio in London.
Vaudine England holds a B.A. in Politics and Philosophy (1980) from the University of Western Australia and an M.A. in Southeast Asia Area Studies (1990) from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies.
Vaughan Yarwood, editor of the online resource Covering Asia, has written widely on Asia for New Zealand publications including NBR, the New Zealand Herald, the Dominion Post, the Listener and Management magazine, which he formerly edited. For several years he wrote a column, 'Asia View', for the New Zealand Herald. He has worked with the Business Intelligence Unit of the Economist Group in London, and for some time was associate editor of New Zealand Geographic, for which he continues to write.
He is the author of Between Coasts: from Kaipara to Kawau, a New Zealand regional history, and The History Makers, a book of biographical essays published in 2002 by Random House. He has contributed introductory chapters to the recently published Lonely Planet Guides New Zealand (2005) and Australia and New Zealand on a Shoestring (2005). He has travelled widely on international assignments.
Teri Fitsell has been a journalist for 20 years, starting with an internship in Dublin, Ireland before moving on to London. A round-the-world trip led to her settling in Southeast Asia where she has worked in Hong Kong, China and Thailand, as well as further afield in New Zealand and Australia.
Michael Field, now with Fairfax New Zealand, is a foreign correspondent and author with extensive experience in India, other Asian countries and the South Pacific.
Sudeepta Vyas, a New Zealand citizen, is a former resident of Bombay with a Bengali and Gujarati background. Now working with the Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind she had extensive public relations and writing experience in India.
Sudha Ramachandran, is an independent researcher and journalist based in Bangalore, India. She writes on terrorism and security issues in South Asia and has reported from several conflict zones, including Sri Lanka and Kashmir.