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Bertil Lintner was born on 1953 in Sweden, is a Swedish journalist, author and strategic consultant. Discover Bertil Lintner's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?
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Bertil Lintner Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Bertil Lintner's Wife?
His wife is Hseng Noung
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Hseng Noung |
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Bertil Lintner Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Bertil Lintner worth at the age of 71 years old? Bertil Lintner’s income source is mostly from being a successful Journalist. He is from Sweden. We have estimated Bertil Lintner's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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He has published several books including, Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Democracy, Blood Brothers: The Criminal Underworld of Asia, World.Wide.Web: Chinese Migration in the 21st Century—and How It will Change the World, and Great Leader, Dear Leader: Demystifying North Korea Under The Kim Clan.
Bertil Lintner (born 1953) is a Swedish journalist, author and strategic consultant who has been writing about Asia for nearly four decades.
He was formerly the Burma (Myanmar) correspondent of the now defunct Far Eastern Economic Review, and Asia correspondent for the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet and Denmark's Politiken.
He currently works as a correspondent for Asia Times.
Bertil Lintner has written extensively about Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), India (with an emphasis on north east India), China and North Korea in various local, national and international publications of over thirty countries.
He is considered to be the first journalist to reveal the growing relationship between Burma and North Korea on strategic cooperation.
He mainly writes about organized crime, ethnic and political insurgencies, and regional security.
Lintner was blacklisted by the Burmese military from the 1980s until the ban was lifted in 2012.
They have a daughter who was born in Kohima, India, during their epic "18-month, 2,275-kilometer overland journey from northeastern India across Burma’s northern rebel-held areas to China" in 1985-87.
They travelled by foot, jeep, bicycle, and elephant, among the rare handful of people to enter the isolated area, then controlled by various ethnic insurgents.
This culminated in his second book, Land of Jade: A Journey from India through Northern Burma to China.
He was the president of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand (FCCT) from 1993-95.
Even so, Lintner was the first foreign journalist to learn about Aung San Suu Kyi's release from house arrest in 1995.
Lintner continues to be interested in Burma where he also teaches investigative journalism to Burmese journalists.
Lintner lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand with his wife Hseng Noung, an ethnic Shan from Burma.
In 2004, Lintner received an award for excellence in reporting about North Korea from the Society of Publishers in Asia and, in 2014, another award from the same society for writing about religious conflicts in Burma.
He is also the recipient of three writing grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Lintner’s most recent book, The Costliest Pearl: China’s Struggle for India’s Ocean, was published in 2019 and covers geostrategic conflicts in the Indian Ocean.
