My 2008 travels around Southeast Asia.

This video shows Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur - including a dance show, the Eye on Malaysia light & sound show and the Petronas Towers.

See my travel website http://www.globalcitizen.co.uk / for photos, journals and more videos.

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In Easter 2008, I visited Burma (Myanmar) - home to a totalitarian military dictatorship. This video documents my travels in Mandalay, Amarapura and Saigang including footage of Mandalay hill, a traditional puppet show, temples, Kuthodaw Pagoda (the world's biggest book) and U Bein's teak Bridge.

As a tourist, I was careful to minimise any money going to the government infrastructure and was welcomed by the Burmese people throughout the country. I felt the US$1 spent on the Circular Railway was worth the interactions it bought with local people from all around the city - I spoke to journalists, students, military-men and ex-civil servants about the situation in the country.

There are no right or wrong answers in response to whether or not foreigners should visit Burma - but all who choose to go should ensure they do extensive reading before and during their travels. See: http://www.freeburma.org/ and http://www.freeburmacoalition. org/

My own Burma page: http://www.globalcitizen.co.uk /travels/myanmar/index.html for photos, journals and more videos.

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In Easter 2008, I visited Burma (Myanmar) - home to a totalitarian military dictatorship.

As a tourist, I was careful to minimise any money going to the government infrastructure and was welcomed by the Burmese people throughout the country. I felt the US$1 spent on the Circular Railway was worth the interactions it bought with local people from all around the city - I spoke to journalists, students, military-men and ex-civil servants about the situation in the country.

There are no right or wrong answers in response to whether or not foreigners should visit Burma - but all who choose to go should ensure they do extensive reading before and during their travels. See: http://www.freeburma.org/ and http://www.freeburmacoalition. org/

My own Burma page: http://www.globalcitizen.co.uk /travels/myanmar/index.html for photos, journals and more videos.

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In Easter 2008, I visited Burma (Myanmar) - home to a totalitarian military dictatorship.

As a tourist, I was careful to minimise any money going to the government infrastructure and was welcomed by the Burmese people throughout the country. There are no right or wrong answers in response to whether or not foreigners should visit Burma - but all who choose to go should ensure they do extensive reading before and during their travels. See: http://www.freeburma.org/ and http://www.freeburmacoalition. org/

My own Burma page: http://www.globalcitizen.co.uk /travels/myanmar/index.html for photos, journals and more videos.

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In Easter 2008, I visited Burma (Myanmar) - home to a totalitarian military dictatorship.

As a tourist, I was careful to minimise any money going to the government infrastructure and was welcomed by the Burmese people throughout the country. There are no right or wrong answers in response to whether or not foreigners should visit Burma - but all who choose to go should ensure they do extensive reading before and during their travels. See: http://www.freeburma.org/ and http://www.freeburmacoalition. org/

Journal extract (more on my website - link at the bottom)
"The activist comedy troupe The Moustache Brothers were one of the big reasons I wanted to come to Myanmar they claim they 'are alive because of tourists', and have been covered numerous times by the BBC and international press. To me, they are heroes - their live performance combined screwball comedy, classic Burmese dance, and satirical criticism of the totalitarian regime. This has, of course, led repeatedly to their arrest Par Par Lay was recently released from prison after doing 7 years hard labour (breaking up rocks with iron bars across their legs). They were banned from performing in Burmese in public, but today they perform to tourists from their front room. Apparently, when they first started doing this, the Myanmar secret police (or the 'KGB' as the comedy trio call them) watched and filmed their show. Since then, and perhaps due to the support of tourists, Amnesty International, the world's media and comedians in the UK and US, they've continued. With tourism at an all time low, and a Manchester United game on in the bar next door, I sat down to the show with just two other people the first Brits I'd met in the country.

The humour was very traditional, far from scathing and the show consisted mainly of Chaplin-esque buffoonery and their wives performing traditional dancing. The satire made up just a small part of the show and it was very mild I wondered if it'd been deliberately watered down. Sometimes it was difficult to follow as Par Par Lay spoke very fast in a thick accent littered with old English idioms and sayings. One second he'd be comparing his wife's and Jennifer Lopez's respective 'booties', and the next he'd be joking about traffic police taking bribes. They're all very brave and defiant guys and it was a truly unique experience - I was lucky to be able to speak to them all personally and interview them on camera afterwards. Since they'd met and performed for Suu Kyi, I asked whether they agreed with her call for a tourism boycott they said the boycott was a direct response to 1996's 'Visit Myanmar Year' and less relevant now. I noticed their collection of newspaper cuttings was missing a few recent BBC stories I'd read online. Using a proxy to bypass the internet filter, I printed them off the next day for them. Though I made a generous donation, I later questioned where this, and the US$8 they charge audience members, goes as surely they have to pay off some of the local authorities? But then, every penny you spend in Myanmar is questionable."

My own Burma page: http://www.globalcitizen.co.uk /travels/myanmar/index.html for photos, journals and more videos.

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The full version of Tom and Dave's charitable hitch-hiking adventure to Africa for Link Community Development. Two years after they met in their Uganda project, they then travelled around the country with Darragh, Tony, Brian, Emily and Katie. Includes footage from Marrakesh, Fes, Agadir, Chefchaouen, the Atlas Mountains (and Todra Gorge), the Sahara, a Berber village and Algeciras, France and Gibraltar.

This movie is over an hour long. To see the highlights in a 4-minute trailer, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =j5HqLVTRzgI

For a write-up and photos from our journey, see http://www.globalcitizen.co.uk /travels/morocco/index.html

Witness Tom eat cow udder and panic at a road-side brothel in rural Spain. See Dave perform a disturbingly sexual dance at a stopover in France and behold Brian as a camel tests his patience in the Sahara.

We raised over £1250 for Link Community Development: http://www.lcd.org.uk/

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10/03/09 - Marking 50 years since the Dalai Lama was forced out of Tibet, Christina Chan 陳巧文, Lhadon Tethong, Tom Grundy, Vic Cavin, Mick Brazel and Leung Yiu-wai hold a peaceful vigil outside the China Liaison Office in Hong Kong.

Apple Daily story (in Chinese):
http://appledaily.atnext.com/t emplate/apple/art_main.cfm?iss _id=20090311&sec_id=4104&subse c_id=11867&art_id=12479081

Official Tibetan Government in exile website
http://www.tibet.net/
http://www.tibet.com/

Daily updated news
http://www.tibet.net/en/flash/ 2008/03...
http://www.studentsforafreetib et.org/...

News blog on Tibet protests - daily Updated
http://blog.studentsforafreeti bet.org/

Urgent campaigns on Tibet
http://www.freetibet.org/campa igns/ur...

Amnesty International Campaign to Free Peaceful protesters:
http://takeaction.amnestyusa.o rg/site...

Free Tibet campaign
http://www.freetibet.org/index .html

Tibet on line - expatriates website
http://www.tibet.org/index.htm l

Chinese version of Tibet Issues...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/empl oyment/...

Other websites
http://www.tibet-info.org/

Tibet Uprising
http://tibetanuprising.org/

Tibet Daily
http://www.tibetdaily.com/

International Tibet Independence movement
http://www.rangzen.com/

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Backpacking travels in Vietnam, summer 2006. More on my travel website at http://www.globalcitizen.co.uk

Includes footage of the War Remnants Museum, the Cu Chi Tunnels and city life in Vietnam's capital, Ho Chi Minh City.

I have uploaded this new version as YouTube/Domino Records claimed copyright on a few seconds of a Four Tet track on the original.

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Part of my Trans-Siberian Express Railway journey backpacking from England to Hong Kong. Includes footage from the Red Square, Cathedral of Spilled Blood, St Peter's & Paul's Fortress, St Petersburg Mosque, Moscow Metrow, tourist markets, The Aurora, the Kremlin, the Hermitage and street life in Russia's capital city.

More on the costs, photos and other videos are on my travel website at http://www.globalcitizen.co.uk

I have uploaded this new version as the original was muted by YouTube/BMG Music as I'd used a Steve Reich track for a few seconds as background music.

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From my backpacking travels in Vietnam, 2006. Footage from markets, an aquarium and street life in Dalat, Hue and Nha Trang.

I have uploaded this new version as the original was muted by YouTube/BMG Music as I'd used a Steve Reich track for a few seconds as background music.

More on my travel website at http://www.globalcitizen.co.uk

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My visit to the S-21 Genocide Museum and The Killing Fields in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia.

This is a new version of an older video which was taken down due to a music copyright claim by the morons at Warner Music.

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Tom's Christmas visit to the Philippines in 2007 with friends. http://www.globalcitizen.co.uk /travels/philippines/index.htm l

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