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Thank you kindly!
Episode 17 is now online, come and get it! Today we meet the third group of Europeans to explore and exploit Southeast Asia, the Dutch, and learn how they used a corporation, the Dutch East India Company (also called the V.O.C.), to get involved in Indonesia.
https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/21893717/episode-17-the-dutch-east-india-company/
Episode 34 is now available! This time we continue our look at Southeast Asia in the early twentieth century (up to 1941), with a visit to Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, while the French were running those countries. If you’re interested in the Vietnam War coming later on, you may consider this episode a prequel, or a table-setting episode. Don’t miss it!
https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/29368240/episode-34-french-indochina-part-3/
In case you haven’t heard, on March 6, 2018, the number of downloads this podcast has received reached 100,000! Yes, in the twenty months since the podcast was launched, people have listened to or downloaded episodes 100,000 times. Thanks a million to every one of you!
The latest episode finishes what we started in Episode 38, the Japanese invasion of the Philippines during World War II. Although the Japanese win again, as they have in other recent episodes, it takes them five months to conquer the islands, because both the Americans and Filipinos were united in resisting them.
https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/32381944/episode-41-the-battle-for-the-philippines-part-2/
The podcast is back, after a month-long break! Here we continue the coverage we started in the previous episode, about World War II in New Guinea. This time we will see the crucial turning point in the conflict between the Japanese, Australians and Americans.
https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/34806469/episode-46-the-new-guinea-campaign-part-2/
Today we take a break from the narrative, because I have been interviewed again. This time it was done by the two hosts of a new Singapore-based podcast, called “We Don’t Mean to Dwell, But . . .” Check it out.
https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/39850720/episode-57-talking-with-two-guys-in-singapore/
And here’s a link to the podcast that did the interview. Listen and enjoy!
http://www.dontmeantodwell.com
Today we are taking a break from the ongoing narrative. Several podcasts tell spooky stories for their late October episodes, so this episode will look at myths and legends from Southeast Asia, especially those about monsters. You may not want to listen to this alone!
https://blubrry.com/hoseasia/50625157/episode-76-monsters-of-southeast-asia/
The previous episode of this podcast was a bit on the short side, so to make up for it, this episode is twice as long! Today we look at Vietnam and Cambodia, in 1973 and 1974. A cease-fire is signed for Vietnam in early 1973, which ends active American involvement in that country, but it fails to end the fighting. As for Cambodia, it takes two to make peace, and the communist Khmer Rouge don’t even want to talk about it, so the Cambodian Civil War was a fight to the finish, with American bombers involved until August 1973. Tune in and listen to the action!
https://blubrry.com/hoseasia/66013724/episode-95-the-second-indochina-war-part-22/
This episode of the podcast covers Cambodia, from 1989 to the present. As you can guess from the title, it’s mainly a story of how Cambodia has recovered from all the awful things that happened to it in the twentieth century.
https://blubrry.com/hoseasia/80319057/episode-114-cambodia-a-rocky-road-to-recovery/
Sorry again for making you wait five weeks. As compensation, this episode is the longest I have recorded in the past year. Today we finish up the narrative on the Philippines, covering the recent history of those islands from 1992 to the present. Overall it has been an up-and-down experience for Filipinos; from my point of view, life is getting better for them, but they still have a long way to go, before they can claim to be as successful as some of their neighbors.
https://blubrry.com/hoseasia/82368089/episode-116-the-philippines-muddle-through/
I’m back, and sorry for keeping you waiting so long! Today we continue our look at Timor, one of the larger islands on the eastern edge of Southeast Asia. This episode will cover the island’s history from 1661 to about 1800. As always, listen and enjoy!
https://blubrry.com/hoseasia/131966142/episode-133-the-divided-history-of-timor-part-2/