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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.
Divided fourth estate urges a third way
Spectrum, Justin Heifetz, Published on 19/01/2014
» Opinion is obviously divided within Thailand, but what is the rest of the world saying? Media opinion on the Bangkok Shutdown is also divided across the region.