Steve Bunk

As a freelance journalist, Steve Bunk reported from places throughout Asia, including Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, China, and Sri Lanka. For years, he freelanced in Australia, while based in Sydney, Darwin, Perth, and Hobart. He co-authored a nonfiction bestseller in that country (The Stump-Jumpers), wrote two travel books, and contributed to numerous other magazines, books, and newspapers. He also wrote for The Scientist while based in Philadelphia, Albuquerque, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. Other work includes a YA novel (The Uprising) and a nonfiction book about a standoff in the Northwest between environmentalists and big business (Goliath Staggered). Steve is now Managing Editor of Idaho Magazine and a guy who appreciates what being a father has done for him.

Saving Up to Die

Jia arrives on the arm of Horst and I look away but they’ve noticed me, so I look back and lift my chin. It’s the usual assortment at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club, including a few Chinese like Jia and an overrepresentation of Australians like Bruce Colley next to me at the bar. Colley is in Hong Kong on business for his family, which owns a media empire based in Sydney. He’s higher up now than when I first met him a few years ago.

Issue 41, September 2020

Steve Bunk

As a freelance journalist, Steve Bunk reported from places throughout Asia, including Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, China, and Sri Lanka. For years, he freelanced in Australia, while based in Sydney, Darwin, Perth, and Hobart. He co-authored a nonfiction bestseller in that country (The Stump-Jumpers), wrote two travel books, and contributed to numerous other magazines, books, and newspapers. He also wrote for The Scientist while based in Philadelphia, Albuquerque, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. Other work includes a YA novel (The Uprising) and a nonfiction book about a standoff in the Northwest between environmentalists and big business (Goliath Staggered). Steve is now Managing Editor of Idaho Magazine and a guy who appreciates what being a father has done for him.

Saving Up to Die

Jia arrives on the arm of Horst and I look away but they’ve noticed me, so I look back and lift my chin. It’s the usual assortment at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club, including a few Chinese like Jia and an overrepresentation of Australians like Bruce Colley next to me at the bar. Colley is in Hong Kong on business for his family, which owns a media empire based in Sydney. He’s higher up now than when I first met him a few years ago.

Issue 41, September 2020

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