John Le Fevre
I've been a photo-journalist for more than 20 years. I have spent extensive periods in developing nations in Asia and Africa.
I have held senior journalism posts around the world and covered major events including wars, natural disasters, and epidemics.
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I have held senior journalism posts around the world and covered major events including wars, natural disasters, and epidemics.
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How Thailand's Red-Shirts Failed to Manage the International MediaRather than an online news portal, blog or website with constantly updated reports, facts, information and pool photos, the UDD, or at least its international media director, focused their entire efforts on Facebook. -
Hmong Refugees in Thailand at Risk of Humanitarian Crisis as Medecins Sans Frontieres WithdrawsMedecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders as they are otherwise known, is withdrawing the services it supplies to 5,000 Hmong refugees in Thailand in protest at the actions of the Thai government and military
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US Demands Royalties on Influenza A(H1N1) Mexican Swine Flu VaccineThe United States has angered poorer nations by demanding that pharmaceutical companies should be able to claim copyright and collect royalties on influenza vaccines and virus research material.
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Thailand Emergency Decree Allows Rumours to FesterThe continuation of the state of emergency in Thailand is allowing misinformation to flourish among red shirt sympathisers who gather at Sanam Luang each night. -
Monk Saw Other Monk Shot by Thai ArmyA Bangkok monk says claims by the Thailand government that the army only fired blanks at red-shirted pro-democracy supporters at Din Daeng last Monday (April 13) are not true and that those shot included a Buddhist monk. -
Thailand on the Edge as Protesters Gather ForcesThailand sits on the edge with the prospect of major bloodshed looming as pro-democracy protesters plan a rally of up to 300,000 people. -
Pro-Democracy Movement Demands Thai Prime Minister ResignLess than five months after yellow-shirted anti-government protesters seized and closed Bangkok's two airports stranding hundreds of thousands of international tourists, the country is headed towards further political unrest. -
Visitors to Bangkok Find More Than Buddhist Temples and Go-go BarsMerely mentioning the name Bangkok to anyone instantly conjures up 100 different images ranging from elegant, centuries-old Buddhist temples and saffron-robed monks to glitzy Go-Go bars crammed with scantily clad, gyrating dancing girls.
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Business First - Page Rank NextWebsites need to appear in organic search results if a site is to attract traffic and the internet is to be an effective marketing tool. Income is more important than PR though.
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Thailand Losses Its SmileWidely know as the Land of Smiles, or simply LOS, these days there are very few people smiling in Thailand as the ongoing political turmoil deteriorates by the day.
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Thailand Tourism Chief Believes Deadly Clashes Will Not Significantly Affect TourismThe head of Thailand's tourism promotion authority has predicted the bloody and violent clashes between police and ant-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) protesters last Monday will have an insignificant effect on the country's tourism. -
Online Travel Bookings Soar but Internet Video Advertising FlopsResearch figures show only 35 per cent of Britons travelling abroad booked through a travel agent, while only 11 per cent of consumers are likely to click on online video advertisements.
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Thailand Tourism in Crisis as Protesters Die in 'Bloody Bangkok'One of the worst timed PR events in history. Tourism Thailand launches a new promotion campaign for Thailand's flailing tourism industry in front of 1,000 travel journalists the same day protesters are being maimed and killed in Bangkok. -
Thailand's Loi Krathong and Yi Peng Festivals - Floating Festivals of LightsLoi Krathong is the largest annual festival held throughout Thailand and one in which almost every Thai participates. Ordinary Thai people decorate their krathongs with elaborately-folded banana leaves, flowers, candles, and incense sticks.
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Bad Website Design No Advantage to UK Travel AgentsAn analysis of 115 websites belonging to members of the UKs largest Travel Industry consortium has shown that only 12 percent scored well for search engine optimization (SEO).
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Foreigners Flogged Most in MalaysiaFlogging can be used to punish more than 40 crimes in Malaysia, including certain white-collar crimes such as criminal misappropriation, criminal breach of trust and cheating.
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Singapore Airlines and Changi the Worlds Best... AgainSingapore Airlines has been voted world's Best Airline for a 17th consecutive year, while Changi Airport has voted Best Airport for a staggering 21st consecutive year. -
Pakistani Receives Life Sentence for Murdering Thai: Australian Gets Four Years for Killing AmericanTwo days after an Australian man received a four year sentence for murdering an American tourist in Chiang Mai, Thailand's Court of Appeal was affirming a life sentence for a Pakistani man convicted for murdering a Thai woman in 2006 -
Death of Maid in Malaysia Highlights Endemic Foreign Worker AbuseThe torture-murder of a 24-year old Indonesian maid in her employers house in Malaysia last year is just the tip of the iceberg of a litany of human rights abuses foreign workers there are subjected to.
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Poi Sang Long Follows Shan TraditionThe Poi Sang Long ceremony in Mae Hong Son, Thailand, is practised by the Shan people of Burma and Northern Thailand. It is a rite of passage ceremony undergone by boys between seven and 14 years of age.
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Family of Murdered Tourist Call for Thailand Travel BoycottThe family of an Hawaiian man murdered in the Northern Thailand city of Chiang Mai have reacted angrily to a court ruling that means his killer will serve less than three years in jail and called on Americans to boycott Thailand as a tourist destination. -
Cash Payment Lightens Sentence for Australian Murderer William Thomas DouglasA 61-year-old former Perth resident who shot and killed a 46-year-old American tourist in the Northern Thailand city of Chiang Mai will serve just two years and nine months in jail for the murder -
Thai Royal Cremation Set for Six Days in NovemberThe funeral of the late princess Gayana of Thailand takes place between November 14th and 19th in Bangkok. With a budget of Bt300 million (about $US8.8 million). There will be six grand processions involving 3,294 soldiers and the three royal chariots.