Fellows & Editors
Doualy Xaykaothao
- Trip:
- Fellows Spring 2006
- Affiliation:
- Freelance radio journalist
- Country:
- Nepal
- Year:
- 2006
Doualy Xaykaothao is a reporter and producer, based in Seoul, covering news from Asia for NPR News. She worked for NPR News in Washington from 1999 to 2003, as a staff producer of the Newscast Unit, which won a 2001 Peabody Award for newscasts about the September 11, 2001, attacks. In 2003, she reported from Southeast Asia for NPR, Free Speech Radio News and other U.S. public radio networks. In Asia she covered the SARS epidemic, the bird-flu crisis, conflict between Muslims and Buddhists in southern Thailand and the Indian Ocean tsunami. She was an Annenberg Fellow for NPR member station KPCC in Los Angeles in 2007 and was a producer with NPR’s “All Things Considered” before moving to Seoul in early 2009. She was raised in Texas and educated in New York at Ithaca College and SUNY Empire.
Stories
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Nepal Maoist Leader: Women Driving Movement
Xaykaothao interviews Maoist soldiers in Nepal. Nepal's Maoist insurgency is unusual not just for its ideology but also for the many women in its ranks -- estimated at 30 to 50 percent. The most...
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Women, Children Feel Effects of Nepal’s Insurgency
Children in the Rolpa district in western Nepal, a Maoist stronghold. Behind the children is a slogan calling for the overthrow of the royal government. In the Kingdom of Nepal, a communist...
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Nepalese Political Parties Explore Links with Maoists
Strikes and protests continue in the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal. The king has fired the government and refuses to talk to the major political parties. There is an emerging alliance between those...
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