Tag: on assignment
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Three, Six, Seven point Eight
Three days, six stories: a single earthquake in Nepal. This story isn’t over, but I’ll be passing the ink along to the next. Thanks to all who send their kind thoughts and best wishes. I carry those home.
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Half Century
For the last two weeks, I’ve been in Vietnam reporting on the 40th anniversary of the Vietnam War. The product of this trip will be apparent in the days and weeks to come, but I wanted to mark an important anniversary today. On March 8, 1965, the US 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade landed on Red Beach, a…
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A new museum stirs tensions in Hong Kong
Last Saturday, the June 4 Memorial Museum opened in Hong Kong. In the fifth floor of an unassuming office building, the 800-square foot museum documents the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square, and commemorates the hundreds of lives lost (and the thousands injured) after the Chinese government’s crackdown.
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In the field: Kribi, Cameroon
I had rented a car to complete reporting in and around the town of Kribi, Cameroon. As I jumped out of the car for what I believed to be the final interview of the day, a four-hour drive from where we started that morning, I could hear an unsettling high-pitched hissing. Having driven quickly over…
Adam McCauley 