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Reeling from the great land grab
Spectrum, Published on 30/03/2014
» Tin Myint remembers being evicted from his land in 1976 as if it were yesterday.
Democracy in motion
Spectrum, Published on 13/10/2013
» A delivery man unwittingly transporting leaflets on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights could have been arrested in Myanmar not long ago. But this year, for the first time since the end of military rule in 2011, flyers advertising a travelling human rights film festival were freely distributed throughout markets and in the streets of towns across the country.
Alleged BTS wire theft gang arrested
Published on 18/09/2013
» Four men have been arrested for allegedly colluding in the theft of copper wires from beneath BTS Skytrain tracks.
'CSI cop' Jarumporn works to uncover cause of deadly cell fire
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 15/07/2013
» The fire at Sai Noi police station in Nonthaburi that killed four inmates on July 7 has sparked an outcry among the victims' relatives, who say police officers at the station should have tried harder to rescue the detainees.
The battle for copper mountain
Spectrum, Published on 23/06/2013
» Determined to hang on to their land around the Letpadaung copper mine in northern Myanmar, farmers have re-ignited their protests despite a harsh government crackdown last November. The mine's expansion, coinciding with the new political era, has become a test case for the direction of Myanmar's future development.
Police arrest man for assaulting mum
Published on 26/04/2013
» A 32-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly assaulting his mother before making off with her valuables and cash.
'Softer' Suu Kyi riles NLD
Spectrum, Published on 17/03/2013
» Prior to the opening of the National League for Democracy's first national congress in its 25-year history, a rumour was circulating that party leader Aung San Suu Kyi would be ousted by disgruntled NLD members.
Thieves steal copper from phone lines
Online Reporters, Published on 27/01/2013
» A gang of thieves stole 640 metres of telephone cable from TT&T Pcl in Ang Thong’s Pho Thong district on Sunday and ripped the valuable copper out of it, disrupting the company’s phone service in an entire tambon, Khao Sod newspaper’s website reported.
Weird suicides usher in New Year
Online Reporters, Published on 04/01/2013
» Strange suicides ushered in the first few days of the New Year with a gay guard killing his lover and then himself, a man who jumped to his death landing on a woman shopper and breaking her back and a foreigner reported to have drowned himself in a plastic bag.
Foreigner commits bizarre 'suicide'
Online Reporters, Published on 04/01/2013
» CHIANG RAI – An unidentified foreigner is believed to have committed suicide in a bizarre way, putting his head in a water-filled plastic bag and then sealing it with a copper wire around his neck, in a field near the Myanmar border, reports said.