Liam Cochrane

Liam Cochrane is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Southeast Asia correspondent, based in Bangkok. He spent more than two weeks in Mae Sai covering the cave rescue, one of those weeks stationed outside the cave entrance in the mud.

Liam began his career in journalism in Cambodia in 2004, as a reporter, then managing editor of the Phnom Penh Post. He freelanced in Nepal for two years and returned to Melbourne to host Connect Asia on ABC Radio Australia. Before Bangkok, Liam was posted to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea - considered the ABC's toughest correspondent position. He was the only foreign reporter on Manus Island when Australia's asylum seeker detention centre was attacked in 2014.