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‘Democratic Jungle’ exhibition reveals harsh realities of Southeast Asia’s workers
Online Reporters, Published on 15/05/2025
» Exhibition Overview The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand (FCCT) presents Democratic Jungle, a powerful documentary photography exhibition by the French photojournalist Nathalie Jamois. It features a striking series of images of labourers across Southeast Asia and interrogates the paradox of progress: as our world becomes more connected and efficient, it simultaneously distances us from the people who sustain our comfort, convenience and consumption.
George Foreman, heavyweight boxer and purveyor of grills, dies
Reuters, Published on 22/03/2025
» TOKYO — American George Foreman, one of the great second acts in sports who reclaimed the heavyweight boxing title after coming out of retirement and became a celebrated product pitchman, died on Friday at age 76, his family said.
Cry for help from Moei River 'scam city'
News, Paskorn Jumlongrach, Published on 10/01/2025
» 'Do you think I can get out of here?" the question induced sudden dead air as no one could answer it. But for people familiar with the stories of a city of scammers located in a border town in Myanmar, it is not difficult to feel the gravity of terror inflicted on the woman who raised such a question.
Myanmar shop owners jailed for raising wages
Published on 02/07/2024
» With Myanmar’s currency plunging and inflation soaring, the owner of three mobile phone shops in Mandalay announced he was giving his employees a raise. Word of his generosity quickly spread on Facebook, and his workers cheered the news.
Myanmar LGBTQ people plea for help
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 20/05/2024
» While Pride Month is around the corner in Thailand, Burmese LGBTQ people live under the Tatmadaw's shadow, waiting for help from their Thai counterparts.
Ragtag Myanmar resistance sees tide turning in forgotten war
Published on 21/04/2024
» LOIKAW, Myanmar — The night Suu Kyi thought she would die of her wounds on the front lines of a forgotten war, a crescent moon hung overhead. A pendant of the Virgin Mary dangled around her neck. Maybe those augurs saved her. Or maybe, she said, it was not yet time for her to die.
In the Colombian jungle with ELN rebels
AFP, Published on 16/11/2023
» RIO BAUDO (COLOMBIA) - Unidentified men approach from the river.
Northern Myanmar fighting displaces almost 50,000 civilians: UN
AFP, Published on 10/11/2023
» YANGON - Almost 50,000 people have been displaced by fighting in northern Myanmar after an alliance of ethnic armed groups launched an offensive against the military two weeks ago, the United Nations said Friday.
Myanmar risks breaking apart amid attacks by rebel militias: junta
Published on 10/11/2023
» NAYPYITAW - Myanmar's ruling military junta has said the country could break apart if it fails to control the latest surge of attacks by ethnic minority militias and pro-democracy armed forces in the country's east, according to a state media report released Thursday after anti-junta forces seized several towns.
DR Congo's 'voodoo wrestling' is spellbinding fun
Published on 09/08/2023
» KINSHASA: There has been a power cut, and under moonlight in a poor quarter of DR Congo's capital, wrestler Maitresse Libondans explains how she invokes her ancestors to cast spells that rout her opponents.