Abby Seiff is an award-winning freelance journalist with a decade of experience reporting and editing in Asia. Her writing and photography have appeared in Newsweek, Time, The AP, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, and more. She also regularly edits and writes reports for think-tanks, security firms, and nongovernmental organizations. Prior to becoming a freelancer, she served as an editor for several years at The Cambodia Daily and The Phnom Penh Post. Her work focuses on human rights, politics, and the law. Most recently, she has reported on Thailand's southern insurgency, food security along the Mekong, and migration in Nepal.
In Cambodia, holdouts fight a rising tide: As the nation's largest hydropower dam goes online, promising to reduce Cambodia's energy dependence on its neighbors, residents must make way. Hundreds of indigenous minorities are staging a last stand with the help of local activists. Devex, August 3, 2017
Meet the Syrian Stranded at the Kuala Lumpur Airport: Trapped in an arrivals hall in a Malaysian airport, Hassan Al Kontar has the vagaries of the modern global systems of asylum to blame. To pass the time, he narrates his strange new life through selfie videos. Pacific Standard, June 6, 2018