RFA Unplugged

Who's blogging?

The RFA Mekong team reports on the changing nature of the longest river in Asia. The Mekong support the lives of 70 million people for whom many changes are in the cards. Today, the Mekong remains to most untapped river in the world, but this won’t last as the economies of the countries it traverses are already in high demand for energy, food and fresh water. Our reporters remain anonymous to protect their where abouts as well as those to whom they speak.

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Several other RFA employees also contribute to the blog on a regular basis. Coolcat4 is Catherine Antoine, managing editor for RFA’s many Web sites.

Dreamburo is Luisetta Mudie,  a freelance journalist and China specialist. After graduating with a degree in Modern Chinese Studies from the University of Leeds, she worked in Hong Kong, Beijing, Taiwan, and London as a foreign correspondent and broadcaster. She has worked for Reuters, AFP, the Far Eastern Economic Review, and the BBC World Service.

Luisetta currently translates, writes, and edits stories in English for Radio Free Asia’s English Web site, and is helping to develop our presence in the blogosphere. She is a Sagittarius.

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Somefiercething is Sarah Jackson-Han, communications and media relations director at RFA since 2001 or thereabouts. A correspondent and Asia analyst for so long that she barely recalls anything else, Sarah holds honors degrees from Dartmouth College and Cambridge University; she has worked in Asia and Washington for Agence France-Presse and National Public Radio Online, and she can be heard every Friday morning on BBC Three Counties Radio.

‘Some fierce thing’ derives from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 23, which Sarah, who can be rather a pedant, believes every person should read for himself or herself. She is a Capricorn and a natural redhead.

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jdlipes is Joshua Lipes, online copy editor at RFA since 2008. Josh is a cinefile, a beer-brewer, a Mandarin speaker and a self-professed foodie who lives in northwest DC. He has traveled extensively throughout eastern and southeastern Asia, but has also lived in China and Japan. He misses bungalowing on Koh Panang and zip-lining through the forests of northwestern Laos. He even misses the crowds and pollution of Beijing!

PeterSainsbury is, well, Peter Sainsbury. Peter is a 20-year media veteran who has lived and worked in, among other countries places, Zambia, Papua New Guinea (“it felt as if I were there forever”), Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia (“what a country”).  He has also worked in every news medium—with stints at The Dominion, The Phnom Penh Post, and Radio & Television New Zealand—but because he is an Aries and a native New Zealander we weren’t completely intimidated.