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Plugging the gap
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 02/12/2022
» Thailand has resumed importing legal migrant workers under memorandums of understanding signed with neighbouring countries after the Covid-19 pandemic eased.
Cambodia's surrogate mothers risk jail for Chinese couples
AFP, Published on 21/12/2018
» PHNOM PENH: Pregnant and scared, Yin hides in a house on the outskirts of Phnom Penh -- one of an untold number of Cambodian surrogate mothers risking jail time for lucrative payouts from Chinese clients.
Cambodia's Sihanoukville morphs into 'Macau 2'
Reuters, Published on 07/12/2017
» SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia: Between Sihanoukville's beaches and its multiplying casinos, "Lao Qi" and Bun Saroeun run restaurants barely a hundred dusty metres apart. But their fortunes could not be more different.
Priced out of prosperity
Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 29/10/2017
» Shortly after the bell sounds, the open-air canteen of the garment factory on the outskirts of Maha Sarakham town starts to fill up. The workers get in line as they chat and eye cheap eats, welcoming a moment of midday rest after working for four long hours in the morning.
Secret North Korean workers in China
Associated Press, Published on 05/10/2017
» HUNCHUN, China: The workers wake up each morning on metal bunk beds in fluorescent-lit Chinese dormitories, North Koreans outsourced by their government to process seafood that ends up in stores and homes in the US and other countries.
Siam Square: Hi-so and now oh so high-priced
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 01/01/2016
» Back in the 1970s, every denim-clad Thai hipster knew about Siam Square. As the country was embracing modernity, it was a hub for film, fashion, beauty products and fine dining.
What changes lie ahead with TPP pact?
News, Published on 07/10/2015
» By lowering trade barriers among the United States and 11 nations scattered around the Pacific Rim from Japan to Chile, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) pact is intended to help countries specialise in producing and exporting whatever goods and services they can make most efficiently, while importing the rest. In the long run, that could help decrease some of the prices consumers see in stores.
No man’s land: liberty missing from Freedom Park
Spectrum, Published on 01/06/2014
» Sitting on an old broken camp bed, Pov Soron, 37, told of how she became one of the hundreds of ignored victims of the battle over Freedom Park.
Suffer the little children
Spectrum, Published on 30/06/2013
» Political and social reforms in Myanmar have done little to stop horrific child labour abuses, human rights groups say.
Furious foreign investment driving land grab scourge
Spectrum, Luke Hunt, Published on 07/10/2012
» Land grabbing has emerged as the biggest blight to afflict Cambodia in recent years. Thousands of villagers have been pushed off their family plots for what they say is too little compensation as big corporations move in with the government's blessing.