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Luke Hunt
Luke Hunt is a Southeast Asia correspondent for The Diplomat. He has spent three decades working in the region and produces the Beyond the Mekong podcast. He can be followed on Patreon and X – formerly Twitter.
He served as bureau chief for Agence France-Presse in Cambodia and in Afghanistan under Taliban occupation – where he was commended by the United Nations for the “best and most insightful” coverage of the Afghan civil war. Hunt also covered the U.S.-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and the Global War on Terrorism that followed, specializing in Islamic militancy.
Throughout the 2010s, Hunt focused on civil conflict and uprisings from the Middle East to East Asia and as an adjunct professor wrote the course War, Media & International Relations for Pannasastra University in Cambodia. He is the author of the “Punji Trap” and co-author of “Barings Lost” and is the recipient of several awards including the Hong Kong Human Rights Press Awards, Society of Publishers in Asia, and the World Association of Newspapers.
Follow him on X at @lukeanthonyhunt.
July 08, 2014
Cambodia Heads Upmarket with Style and Hun Sen
By Luke Hunt
July 07, 2014
ISIS: A Threat Well Beyond the Middle East
By Luke Hunt
June 29, 2014
China Lets Its Oil Rigs Do the Talking
By Luke Hunt
June 20, 2014
Cambodian Exodus Signals Tough Times with Thai Junta
By Luke Hunt
June 13, 2014
ASEAN’s House of Horrors
By Luke Hunt
June 06, 2014
'Indiana Jane' and the Looted Temples of Koh Ker
By Luke Hunt
May 29, 2014
Coup ‘Favors’ ANZ and Sumitomo Mitsui Bank Bid
By Luke Hunt
May 28, 2014
Indochina’s Troubled Year
By Luke Hunt
May 24, 2014
AEC Delays a Victory for Human Trafficking
By Luke Hunt
May 17, 2014
ASEAN’s Tepid Response to the Vietnam-China Faceoff
By Luke Hunt
May 08, 2014
Vietnamese Upset by ‘Imperious’ Thai Customs
By Luke Hunt
