Victor Mallet is South Africa correspondent for the Financial Times. Prior to that he was deputy Features Editor and South-East Asia correspondent for that newspaper. In 1990, as Middle East correspondent for Reuters, he was the only western journalist in Kuwait City when the Iraqis invaded.

'If there is a better primer on South-East Asia, it must be a very good book indeed' Sunday Business 'Mallet's book is engagingly written and rich in anecdote... his painstaking research brings Asian society to life' Financial Times

Victor Mallet is South Africa correspondent for the Financial Times. Prior to that he was deputy Features Editor and South-East Asia correspondent for that newspaper. In 1990, as Middle East correspondent for Reuters, he was the only western journalist in Kuwait City when the Iraqis invaded.

'If there is a better primer on South-East Asia, it must be a very good book indeed' Sunday Business 'Mallet's book is engagingly written and rich in anecdote... his painstaking research brings Asian society to life' Financial Times

Victor Mallet is South Africa correspondent for the Financial Times. Prior to that he was deputy Features Editor and South-East Asia correspondent for that newspaper. In 1990, as Middle East correspondent for Reuters, he was the only western journalist in Kuwait City when the Iraqis invaded.

'If there is a better primer on South-East Asia, it must be a very good book indeed' Sunday Business 'Mallet's book is engagingly written and rich in anecdote... his painstaking research brings Asian society to life' Financial Times