Aung Khant Si Thu is a Bangkok-based multimedia journalist, documentary cinematographer, and photojournalist working across Asia. His work focuses on conflict, human rights, migration, labour, transnational crime, and underrepresented communities, with a strong emphasis on human-centered and investigative storytelling.
He regularly collaborates with the Swiss public broadcaster SRF and has worked with international media and documentary platforms including National Geographic, Al Jazeera, Sky News, ABC’s Foreign Correspondent, KBS, Der Spiegel, NZZ, and other international outlets.
Alongside his journalism and documentary work, Aung has also contributed visual documentation and communications work for international organizations, NGOs, and regional initiatives, including projects supported by the UNDP, UNODC, EU, WWF, GI-TOC, and other international partners.
Aung began his career at The Myanmar Times in 2014, where he later became Head of Multimedia before leaving Myanmar following the 2021 military coup. Since then, he has continued reporting and producing stories across Asia, working in the field as a journalist, cinematographer, producer, and photographer.
Over recent years, he has dedicated significant long-term reporting and research to transnational scam networks operating across Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines and Laos. His work in this area has contributed to investigative and documentary projects for platforms including 101 East, Talk to Al Jazeera, SRF, NZZ, and Le Figaro. He also served as Myanmar team lead for a year-long regional research project on scam compounds conducted with GI-TOC as part of a regional research team.
In 2024, he contributed as a producer to “Scam City,” an episode of Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller for National Geographic. The series won at the 47th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards in 2026, while the season including the episode was also nominated for the Peabody Awards.
His cinematography work on the feature documentary When a Poet Goes to War received recognition at the Taiwan International Film Festival (2024) and Docs by the Sea (2025). The film is currently in development and follows the journey of a poet who becomes a resistance leader in the aftermath of Myanmar’s 2021 military coup.
Alongside his editorial and documentary work, Aung continues to work on visual storytelling and field reporting projects focused on regional security, migration, labour issues, political transitions, and the human impact of cross-border networks across Asia.