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Motorbikes, miles and an endless cycle for slum girl
Spectrum, Father Joe Maier, Published on 16/06/2013
» The first time, 12 years ago, it was an easy rescue. Her dad, a European man, kicked down the door, barged in and beat up the two bad guys with his fists, cracked their skulls with a beer bottle, and picked up his three-year-old daughter, Miss Jew Waew. He waved down a taxi and brought her to us at Mercy. He had heard that we took care of abandoned kids.
Stuck in the middle with you
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 02/06/2013
» There are more than 7.5 million registered vehicles on the roads of Bangkok, almost one for every resident of a city of nine million people.
Invasion of the job snatchers
Spectrum, Published on 26/05/2013
» The tourism boom in Phuket over the past decade has seen a dramatic increase in Russian and Chinese visitors and also growing resentment from local tour guides who say illegal foreign workers are stealing their jobs.
Between a rock and a hard place
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 12/05/2013
» Hurling rocks at moving cars might not seem like the best way to win friends and influence people, but for 13-year-old Boy, it was the only way he knew to fit in.
In a flash: from Myanmar's jungles to the wilds of urban America
Spectrum, Noel Boivin, Published on 21/04/2013
» In late 2006, British photojournalist James Robert Fuller met Ta Ju, a Karen villager living in a refugee camp on the Thai-Myanmar border who was just about to embark on the first step of his family's resettlement to the United States.
Activists leaping back into the fire
Spectrum, Published on 03/03/2013
» After serving 14 years in some of Myanmar's most notorious prisons following his arrest for participating in a protest while a student in 1991, Bo Bo Han is now facing the prospect of another year behind bars. His crime? Leading a peaceful march to the Gen Aung San monument in Taunggyi, the capital of Shan State, on International Peace Day, Sept 21, last year.
A 'voice from the sky' breaks _ and charms _ old hearts in Klong Toey
Spectrum, Father Joe Maier, Published on 24/02/2013
» Somehow Nung Ning's music soothes the decades and the old pains of these elderly ladies and brings back the beautiful memories of yesteryear.
Fleeing Rohingya at the mercy of a smuggling network greased by graft
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 13/01/2013
» For desperate Rohingya arrested in Thai territory, hope for the future can rest simply with how much money they have to pay off local officials and human traffickers. The prospects are dire for those without the required cash _ being sold into slavery is commonplace.
2012 - When Asean felt Beijing's bite
Spectrum, Luke Hunt, Published on 30/12/2012
» Twenty-twelve should be remembered as the year in which China acted on its long-standing claims in the South China Sea, took off the gloves and arraigned its intimidating military and diplomatic arsenal against its neighbours to the south. Gone were the usual glib lines that China only gives foreign aid and soft loans to countries in need, with no strings attached. Cambodia _ for years a benefactor of Beijing's largesse _ was bullied onto China's political front lines, acting as a spoiler against fellow Asean countries attempting to forge a united front against Beijing's territorial and maritime ambitions.
A Christmas story, Klong Toey style
Spectrum, Father Joe Maier, Published on 23/12/2012
» They tried to lead a normal family life, but they were always looking back over their shoulders ... never quite sure if Herod's soldiers knew, when they killed all those children in Bethlehem more than eight years before, that Jesus had escaped that horrible nightThe children at our Mercy Centre don't really worry about time and space, so yesterday, today and even tomorrow all become ''right now''. If a story rings true to them, they ''buy in''. Like all kids, ours have an unerring sense of what's real and what's fake. And without exception, they like the story of Christmas. So here at Mercy, we celebrate Christmas every day, but especially on Dec 25, when we follow our Sacred Traditions.