Todd Pitman

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In this May 3, 2014, HOLD FOR USE WITH STORY SLUGGED SOUTH KOREA SHIP SINKING BY TODD PITMAN, Park Jong-dae, father of Danwon High School Junior, Park Su-hyun, who was killed in the sinking of ferry Sewol, closes his eyes during an interview in Ansan, South Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Ferry disaster makes South Korea question progress

Todd Pitman · May 19, 2014 3:17 pm

In this , Tuesday, April 1, 2014 photo made available Thursday, April 3, 2014, a crewman on a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion Rescue Flight 795 searches for debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, in southern Indian Ocean, 1,500 kilometers northwest of Perth, Australia. The focus of the search has changed repeatedly in the nearly four weeks since the air traffic controllers lost contact with the Boeing 777 between Malaysia and Vietnam over the South China Sea. It began in the South China Sea, then shifted toward the Malacca Strait to the west, where Malaysian officials eventually confirmed that military radar had detected the plane. (AP Photo/AAP Image, Kim Christian, POOL)

MH370: What do we know? What will we ever know?

Todd Pitman · April 3, 2014 2:17 pm

Thailand told to probe navy over trafficking claim

Thailand told to probe navy over trafficking claim

Todd Pitman · March 7, 2014 12:24 am

Voters hold their identification cards and the chains that held the gate of the polling station closed, as they demand the right to vote during general elections in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014. Around the country, the vast majority of voting stations were open and polling proceeded relatively peacefully, but the risk of violence remained high a day after gun battles in Bangkok left seven people wounded. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

Thai elections peaceful, but crisis far from over

Todd Pitman · February 2, 2014 7:57 pm

In this photo taken Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, local monk protest leader Luang Pu Buddha Issara, center, listens to high level police officers asking him to leave the neighboring government building to Bangkok, Thailand. Some government officials have resorted to pleading with protests occupying their government offices where daily functions such as passport controls and immigration issues are backing up. It was an extraordinarily humbling moment for Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's embattled administration, which ascended to power following a landslide election two and a half years ago. (AP Photo/Thanyarat Doksone)

Thai government forced to beg access to offices

Todd Pitman · January 30, 2014 10:33 am

In this photo taken January 15, 2014, anti-government protesters gather during a rally at Ratchabrasong intersection in Bangkok, Thailand. The protest led by former deuty prime minister Suthep Thaugsuban, the movement that has itself blocked roads and broken into government offices, an extraordinary role reversal that underscores not only the cyclical nature of Thai politics, but the total lack of progress toward bridging a political divide that has plagued the country for nearly a decade. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Hard to see end to Thailand’s cycle of instability

Todd Pitman · January 23, 2014 9:56 am

Myanmar issues cyclone warning

Myanmar issues cyclone warning

Todd Pitman · May 11, 2013 6:56 pm

Rights group: Myanmar unrest is ‘ethnic cleansing’

Rights group: Myanmar unrest is ‘ethnic cleansing’

Todd Pitman · April 22, 2013 10:45 pm

Wildlife group wants Thailand to ban ivory trade

Wildlife group wants Thailand to ban ivory trade

Todd Pitman · January 15, 2013 11:04 am

In this Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012 photo, a flotilla of wooden fishing boats belonging to Muslim refugees who fled the Myanmar port of Kyaukphu sit anchored during low tide on a beach in Sin Thet Maw, Myanmar. Stranded beside their decrepit flotilla of wooden boats, on a muddy beach far from home, the Muslim refugees tell story after terrifying story of their exodus from a once-peaceful town on Myanmar's western coast. (AP Photo/Todd Pitman)

Myanmar Muslims recall Buddhist assault

Todd Pitman · December 29, 2012 1:22 pm

FILE - In this Thursday, Nov 29, 2012 file photo, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, second right, listens to a Buddhist monk who suffered from burn injuries when security forces cracked down protesters camping at a military-backed copper mine, during her visit to a hospital in Monywa, northwestern Myanmar. For Suu Kyi the democracy activist, the 25-year struggle against Myanmar's former army rulers was a largely black-and-white affair - a clear fight for freedom against one of the world's most oppressive regimes. But Suu Kyi the elected lawmaker is finding it a lot more difficult to pick her battles, and she's a lot more pragmatic when she does. (AP Photo/File)

Analysis: Myanmar’s Suu Kyi shows pragmatism

Todd Pitman · December 1, 2012 7:32 am

In this photo taken on Nov. 8, 2012, Ethnic Rakhine people take refuge at a monastery in Mrauk-U, Rakhine state, western Myanmar. Mrauk-U itself has been spared the bloodshed between the Buddhist Rakhine and the Muslim Rohingya that has scarred other parts of Rakhine state. It is calm, and for foreign tourists, safe. But just 10 kilometers (six miles) to the south, there is a village where civilians were reportedly beheaded in a massacre last month that saw women and children slaughtered, then buried in mass graves. Across western Myanmar's Rakhine state, the United Nations is distributing emergency supplies of food and shelter to terrified villagers who have fled burning homes. A nighttime curfew is in force. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

Tourists trickle into violence-hit western Myanmar

Todd Pitman · November 26, 2012 5:00 am