Daniel Lovering
- Trip:
- Fellows Spring 2000
- Affiliation during program:
- Freelance
- Country:
- Laos
- Year:
- 2000
- Email:
- [email protected]
Daniel Lovering is a freelance journalist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For nine years, he worked as a staff reporter for international news agencies, mainly The Associated Press. He has reported from 11 countries on subjects ranging from business and politics to natural disasters and public health crises. Until late 2009, he was an AP business writer covering large U.S. companies in the aerospace, machinery and metals industries. Earlier, he covered business and general news in western Pennsylvania. From 2000 to 2005, Daniel was based in Bangkok, Thailand, where he covered several countries in Southeast Asia. During that period, he reported on the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami, the spread of bird flu, ethnic insurgencies, political strife and the resettlement of refugees, among other stories. He also reported from Afghanistan and Pakistan. Before joining the AP in early 2002, he was a Bangkok-based correspondent for Agence France-Presse. Previously, he covered the Internet industry in Southeast Asia for asia.internet.com, an online trade publication, and wrote for several newspapers and magazines, including The Asian Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Boston Globe, BusinessWeek and Scientific American. A recipient of a New York Times Foundation fellowship, he began working as a freelance journalist in 1995. Daniel is a graduate of Oberlin College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Stories
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Taming the killing fields of Laos
Live bombs from the Vietnam war continue to kill people and hamper agricultural development in Laos. The cleanup project required deciphering decades old computer files. Click ...
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Laos faces decades of unexploded bombs
PAKSONG, Laos -- Standing on this jungle plateau in southern Laos, Pong Inthisane takes stock of the day's work: two 500-pound bombs, 20 antitank rockets, and scores of rusting ...
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Taking a Pounding
BAN KAELEA MAI, Laos, Spring 2000 -- Three white Toyota pickup trucks emblazoned with bomb-shaped insignias roll into Ban Kaelae Mai, a dusty village of thatched huts and rice ...
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Waiting to explode in Laos
VIENTIANE, Laos Poor Laos has the distinction of being one of the most heavily bombarded countries on earth. During the Vietnam war, America dropped some 2m tonnes of ...
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