Patrick WinnIn South Korea’s war panic economy, sales thrive on nuclear angstGas masks, hazmat suits and emergency rations all can be had for a price. Or, for the upper classes, your own personal bunker.Aug 21, 2018Aug 21, 2018
Patrick WinninGlobalPost InvestigationsHow North Korean hackers became the world’s greatest bank robbersThe Reconnaissance General Bureau, North Korea’s equivalent to the CIA, has trained up the world’s greatest bank-robbing crews. In just the…May 16, 201826May 16, 201826
Patrick WinnA US-style drug war brings a terrible cost: Thai prisons packed full of womenBut drug policy liberalizers are convinced that in coming years, Thailand’s US-backed drug war will recede and a more merciful approach…Apr 9, 20183Apr 9, 20183
Patrick WinninGlobalPost InvestigationsFrom tyranny to reality TV: Meet the celebrity defector women of North KoreaSouth Korea is transfixed by new television programs that put young and manicured North Koreans in the spotlight.Oct 9, 2017Oct 9, 2017
Patrick WinnInside the Philippines’ women-run crime ring selling abortion elixirsFor poor Filipinas with unwanted pregnancies, this is what reproductive care looks like.Aug 23, 20172Aug 23, 20172
Patrick WinnMeth’s new frontier: The marshlands of BangladeshAnnual seizures of meth in the country have gone up 80,000 percent — yes, eighty thousand percent — in nine years.Apr 26, 2017Apr 26, 2017
Patrick WinnMyanmar’s army is tormenting Muslims with a brutal rape campaignMyanmar’s troops are systematically raping Muslim women — a tactic seemingly designed to terrorize the Rohingya population into fleeing the…Feb 8, 20178Feb 8, 20178
Patrick WinnClimate change, meet your apocalyptic twin: oceans poisoned by plasticHow throw-away plastic could alter humanity as we know it.Dec 14, 20163Dec 14, 20163
Patrick WinnMock stars: Myanmar’s pop plagiaristsIn Myanmar, plagiarism isn’t a sporadic indulgence among top performers. It is the engine that drives the nation’s pop music industry.Aug 2, 2016Aug 2, 2016
Patrick WinnThis is what Oppression Economics looks likeVideo: Forsaken in Myanmar.Aug 2, 2016Aug 2, 2016