CPAmedia News - December 2004

Photography

Vietnam - David Henley successfully completed a shoot in Southern Vietnam including the Central Highlands, Mekong Delta and Phu Quoc Island for the AA during September, 2004.

Vietnam - Jim Goodman continued shooting traditional festivals in Tonkin during October 2004 despite breaking a collar bone in a traffic accident in Hanoi.

Ron Emmons shot images across Cambodia while completing a nation-wide update for Rough Guides in November, 2004.

China - Jim Goodman successfully completed a shoot in and around Northwestern Yunnan in July 2004.

Updating and New Books

CPA Media's Andrew Forbes and David Henley have recently completed text on 26 cities for AA Leisure's forthcoming 100 Great Cities of the World. Andrew Forbes also completed the text for a new Chiang Mai City Arts & Cultural Centre book, The Peoples of Chiang Mai (also in a separate Thai volume as Chao Chiang Mai), published jointly with the 3rd edition of Hans Penth's A Brief History of Lanna (Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2004).

CPA Media's Joe Cummings has just completed the 11th edition of Lonely Planet's best-selling Thailand.

Ron Emmons updated a new edition of Rough Guides Cambodia in October 2004.

Other Research and Travels

CPA Media's Colin Hinshelwood has just returned from China and Nepal having cycled (!) from Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, to Kathmandu, the Nepali capital - with his camera and notebook. Joe Cummings is now working on two Thailand-related coffee books, Lanna Renaissance and Chiang Mai Style, both with photography by the excellent Luca Invernizzi Tettoni. Joe's also working as a location consultant for 'Kingdom of Silence', an American film to begin shooting later this month in Chiang Mai. Finally, Joe has been working with Thai director Jira Malikul ('Mekong Full Moon Party'), writing production notes and bios for the principals of his new production company, GMM Tai Hub. Marcel Genühn has just finished leading two consecutive tours to Burma/Myanmar including the anicent Arakan capital of Mrauk-U. Jim Goodman has recovered from his broken collar bone and is once again shooting and researching in China's south-western Yunnan province. Bertil Lintner is currently in Hong Kong and Doug Gordon Morton has just returned from a prolonged visit to the United States.

Dr Stuart Munro-Hay

It is very sad to have to report that the internationally-respected Ethiopian specialist, archaeologist and historian of Thailand, Stuart Christopher Munro-Hay, died suddenly in October 2004. Stuart was a good colleague and an excellent friend, and we shall all miss him. We will be putting up an obituary listing his major publications (more than 20 books as well as many, many articles) in the next issue of Parabaik.