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Name
  
Hamish McDonald


Role
  
Journalist


Books
  
The Polyester Prince, Ambani & Sons: The Making of, Demokrasi: Indonesia in the 21s, Mahabharata in Polyester, A War of Words: The Man Who

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Hamish McDonald is a print journalist and author of several books. He also holds a fellowship at the American think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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Career

McDonald has been working as a journalist in mostly Asian countries like India, Japan, Indonesia, Hong Kong and China, where he was a correspondent based in Beijing from 2002 to 2005. He was in India between 1990 and 1997, covering the time immediately after the economic reforms. He was also the political editor for the Far Eastern Economic Review and the foreign editor for the Sydney Morning Herald.

In 2005, he won the Walkley Award for newspaper feature writing for his article What's Wrong With Falun Gong, which is about the brutal suppression of the Falun Gong religious movement in China.

Books

  • Suharto's Indonesia, 1980
  • The Polyester Prince, 1998: This unauthorized biography of Dhirubhai Ambani never went to print in India after the publishers were threatened with legal action by the Ambani family.
  • 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
  • Mahabharata in Polyester: The Making of the World’s Richest Brothers and Their Feud, 2010: The book was published in India as Ambani and Sons.
  • Demokrasi: Indonesia in the 21st Century, St. Martin's Press, 2015
  • References

    Hamish McDonald Wikipedia