Hamish McDonald
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Hamish McDonald is a print journalist and author of a series of polemic political commentaries on various Asia-Pacific subjects.[1] He is currently based in Beijing[2] as correspondent for The Age
[edit] Career
Served as the Delhi bureau chief for the Far Eastern Economic Review for several years, and as Foreign Editor for the Sydney Morning Herald.
In 2005 he won the Walkley Award for Newspaper Feature Writing[3] for his article "What's Wrong With Falun Gong" for the Sydney Morning Herald.
[edit] Books
- Suharto's Indonesia, 1980
- The Polyester Prince, 1998. An unauthorised biography of Dhirubhai Ambani[4] in which both his subject's achievements and shortcomings were reported, but the Ambanis threatened legal action if the book were published in India, so it was never sold in India.[5]
- Death in Balibo, Lies in Canberra, 2001 (co-authored with Desmond Ball
- Masters of Terror: Indonesia's Military & Violence in East Timor in 1999, 2002
- Ambani and Sons, 2010 [2] - 396 pages - Rs 395
- Mahabharata in Polyester: The Making of the World’s Richest Brothers and Their Feud, 2010 [3] - 432 pages - A$35
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.allbookstores.com/author/Hamish_Mcdonald.html | Bibliography at allbookstores.com
- ^ Correspondent biography at The Age
- ^ [1]
- ^ TheStar.com | World | India's richest man builds 27-storey home
- ^ Asia Times
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