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- Indochina Media Memorial Foundation-Thailand
- Indochina Media Memorial Foundation
- "Indochinese journalists learn how to report on market economy”
- "Southeast Asian reporters get crash course in working difficult terrain"
- "My 15-year experience arranging media training in Mekong region"
- Requiem
- "Requiem: Photographers who died in Vietnam and Indochina"
