About Thin Lei
Bio
Born and raised in Myanmar, Thin has been working for the Thomson Reuters Foundation since 2008. Based out of Bangkok, Thin has worked on award-winning humanitarian news coverage in Southeast and East Asia, on issues as wide-ranging as disasters, conflicts, climate change, women’s rights, refugees and displacement, and governance. Thin caught the journalism bug in her final year of studies in Business Management after she spent a year interning at a publishing house in Singapore in 2000. To her parents' initial consternation, she eschewed the business world for life as a roving reporter, including in the U.K. and Vietnam. Thin is back home on secondment to set up Myanmar Now (www.myanmar-now.org), a small, independent bilingual news agency focusing on in-depth features, analysis and investigative pieces.
I'm passionate about
Environment, education, human rights, food, travel and how technology can improve any of these things
Areas of expertise
Humanitarian Affairs, News and feature writing, News gathering, representation and public influence, Social media for news