Kim Gooi has been a freelance photojournalist based in Bangkok for the past 25 years. Formerly a *stringer for TIME Magazine, The New York Times, BBC, CNN, Japanese Media, French & German News Media, Deutsche Press Agentur, etc., he now resides in his hometown Penang, Malaysia.

Briefly
The stories and photographs compiled here had been published in various regional newspapers and magazines during my career as a freelance journalist, beginning from the mid seventies onwards. Except for one - Waiting For the Tunku - which for various reasons had never been written until now. Read

Waiting For The Tunku
Much has been written about his political development and achievements. Robert MacNamara, then-president of the World Bank, said in his opening address at the first Tun Abdul Razak Memorial lecture that he was envious of the Malaysians in the audience who had walked with the founding father of the nation, whereas he had to get to know the Tunku through the history books. Read

Letter to the Editor
It was a terrible time and ordeal, and it was there in those terrible goals that I got acquainted with the Muslims and their problems and the most barbaric atrocities that they have been subjected to. Read

A Tale of Two Women
In the days when machinery were few and giant cranes unheard off, building materials and earth were moved by hands. Hui Ann women mostly did this heavy work - shuffling earth and heavy loads on their shoulders they toiled ceaselessly. It would be unimaginable for the building industries to be without them. Today few remember them. Read

An Old Sea Salt
In the early 1990s I had a pleasant surprise when the last English headmaster of Penang Free School, J M B Hughes (who retired in 1963 and returned to England) wrote to me. Read

Bangkok days circa 1980
from left to right: Kim Gooi; Naoki Mabuchi (ABC News Cameraman); Ing K (Author/Documentary Producer); John Hail (UPI Bureau Chief/DPA Editor); the late Senee Mongkol (sound engineer).

Cry of the Innocents
Unsophisticated girls from the quiet pastoral villages of the minority tribes in Yunnan province in southwestern China are being tricked by phony offers of jobs and then sold into prostitution in Thailand... Read

Rebel With a Cause
As far as rebellions go, Myanmar (Burma) is unsurpassed in the world. Jokes aside, the country could easily claim the title 'Mother of Most Rebellions'. Read

Nightmare in Jambi
Covering the ongoing haze crisis brought on by thousands of forest and bushfires set by plantation workers and developers, Don Philippe, 57, was accompanied by ace Bangkok-based freelancer Kim Gooi. Read

Images
Please note all images used on articles have been stripped of colour and are currently in low-resolution to deter image theft and misuse. Photographs will be uploaded in their full glory as soon as code embedding work is carried out at a later date. Read

Working for the BBC. Thai-Cambodia Border 1989
- Frontiers (Series) 'Border Run' presenter Jon Swain, with Producer/Director Gerry Troyna

Dream Assignment
Not long after the death of Princess Diana and her Egyptian boyfriend Dodi in a Paris car crash in 1997, the BBC commissioned renowned documentary producer/director Gerry Troyna to do a documentary on the 'Train Journey' through Cambodia with Princess Diana's brother Earl Spencer as the presenter. Read

An Encounter With The Tok Guru
The sky was turning dark, casting long shadows of the palm trees and minaret. Village children were learning the Quran, seated on the shiny floor of the spacious mosque. Read

Two-Gun Billy
Slumped on the chair, with the telephone at his feet, was an black man. He had a weather-beaten face which gave him a look of around 50. Sticking out of his heavy unbuttoned coat was the shiny white, ivory butt of a revolver. Read

Worth Their Weight In War
"War determines life and death, the rise and fall of a state. It is therefore of vital importance that the art of war be studied with great care," wrote Sun Tze about 2,500 years ago in his classic "The Art of War". Read

Growing Pains
Old time visitors to George Town, the capital of Penang, have always come away impressed. Established by the British in 1786 as its stronghold and trading post in the region, it is everything a thriving city should be... Read

Phu Kading Mt - North East Thailand, 1979