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    Fight over the spoils leads to rights abuses

    Spectrum, Justin Heifetz, Published on 02/03/2014

    » On a humid July day in Shan state, a 12-year-old girl was playing under the monsoon rains falling over her tiny northern township of Ke See. The Myanmar army had been quietly building a presence there since 2009, after the government signed a deal with China to lay pipelines through the area to take oil and gas from the Rakhine basin in the west to Yunnan province. These pipelines, called the Shwe, would be a safe alternative to the strategically vulnerable Strait of Malacca — so the governments said.

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    Bearing the brunt of male chauvinism

    Spectrum, Justin Heifetz, Published on 15/12/2013

    » Yingluck Shinawatra is hardly the first female politician to be subjected to misogynistic comments. In fact, the treatment the caretaker prime minister has received follows that of a long line of women leaders who have come in for criticism their male counterparts have not had to endure.

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    Snow business like it

    B Magazine, Justin Heifetz, Published on 19/01/2014

    » Imagine Bangkok was blanketed with snow instead of whistle-blowing protesters. Democracy Monument has four frosted peaks, tuk tuks have snow ploughs attached to the front (and not just to run people over) and the Chao Phraya River has frozen over so everyone's skating to work.

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