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Covid complications
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 30/11/2021
» The health and economic impact of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has heightened the housing crisis not just in Thailand but worldwide, amid reports that global poverty is at an all-time high.
Ending statelessness
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 08/07/2019
» A veteran advocate for the rights of stateless communities in Thailand, Tuenjai Deetes has for close to half-a-century devoted her life to helping them achieve their rightful status in a nation they have resided in for long enough to love and cherish as their own.
An educational lifeline
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 02/04/2018
» Ten-year-old Andrew* and elder sister Angelina*, 16, are from a family of six Pakistani Christian asylum seekers whose only respite from anxious thoughts is when they attend school.
Hope for the Future
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 20/03/2018
» Migrant workers, like other kinds of workers, struggle to advance in the hierarchy of the job market. But for them, the endeavour is particularly daunting, with lack of opportunities, financial means and connections.
Being Thai, on the fly
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 04/09/2017
» Once a stateless boy, today Mong Thongdee remains stateless as a man. Eight years ago when he was 12, Mong was in every newspaper's headlines when the Chiang Mai-born son of Myanmar migrant workers won a national contest for paper planes and was chosen to represent Thailand at a competition in Japan.
Skills to start again
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 28/04/2015
» Repeat drug offenders Pongsakorn Katsorn and Boworn Premsi, 19 and 18, are determined to clean up their act after they complete their sentences at Chon Buri's Baan Bueng Vocational Training Center.
Serving a purpose (and tacos)
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 23/04/2015
» In 2009, just before his 24th birthday, Stuart Cook was appointed CEO of Zambrero, a quick service Mexican restaurant franchise that prides itself on its strong humanitarian values.
Escaping the chains of oppression
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 16/02/2015
» Continuing our series on ordinary people often overlooked by society, Life spent the day with an inspirational Rohingya man who has battled to establish a life for his family in Thailand
Migrant workers 'sitting ducks' for abuse
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 13/11/2014
» The horrific murders of Indonesians Sumarti Ningsih and Seneng Mujiasih offers yet another chilling reminder of the abuse and exploitation faced by vulnerable migrant workers, not just in Hong Kong, where the killings occurred late last month, but also in Thailand, where the situation is no better.