The Reporter Who Fought Lee Kuan Yew and Mahathir

Stephen J. Duthie, a prize-winning former Asian Wall Street Journal correspondent who played a significant role in one of the most tumultuous periods in Southeast Asian journalism, has died in the United States after a short illness. He was 66 years old.

Then a national affairs reporter for the Detroit News, Duthie became bored with reporting in the US a…