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Thailand's last hunter-gatherers seek land rights
AFP, Published on 22/11/2025
» PA BON (THAILAND) - Deep in a Thai forest a young man sprints through the undergrowth, blowpipe in hand, before pumping a poisoned dart at a monkey.
Ex-US cop sentenced to over 20 years for George Floyd death
AFP, Published on 08/07/2022
» SAINT PAUL - Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of the murder of George Floyd, was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison on Thursday on federal charges.
US ex-cop charged in Floyd death defends actions
AFP, Published on 16/02/2022
» SAINT PAUL, US: A former Minneapolis police officer charged with violating the civil rights of George Floyd took the witness stand on Tuesday to defend his actions during the fatal May 2020 arrest of the 46-year-old Black man.
Vietnam's spectacular terraced ricefields wait for tourists
AFP, Published on 02/12/2021
» YêN BáI, Vietnam: As the morning sun finds its way through the mist over Vietnam's terraced rice fields, local farmers lead buffalo into the paddies and pass another day without tourists in their hilly homeland.
Virus despair forces girls across Asia into child marriage
AFP, Published on 01/09/2020
» NEW DELHI: Tens of thousands of girls across Asia are being forced into marriage by desperate families plunged into poverty because of the coronavirus pandemic, as campaigners warn years of progress tackling the practice is being undone.
George Floyd death sparks Asian American soul-searching
AFP, Published on 21/06/2020
» As anti-racism protests broke out across the United States, Viet Hoai Tran knew exactly what he wanted to write on his poster -- "Yellow Peril Supports Black Power."
One stitch at a time: weaving rehab for Vietnam trafficking victims
AFP, Published on 17/01/2019
» QUAN BA (VIETNAM) - Thao Thi Van was just two when her mother disappeared during a trip to the market, likely taken by traffickers preying on women from the Hmong hill tribes of northern Vietnam to sell as brides or into brothels in China.
Mothers of the Missing: Anguished search for Vietnam's kidnapped brides
AFP, Published on 12/12/2018
» MEO VAC (VIETNAM) - Vu Thi Dinh spent weeks scouring the rugged Vietnamese borderland near China after her teenage daughter vanished with her best friend, clutching a photo of the round-faced girls now feared sold as child brides.
Getting high in Laos' opium-riddled mountains
AFP, Published on 09/09/2018
» HOUAPHAN PROVINCE, Laos: In a hut on the top of a fog-licked mountain in northern Laos, Vo Pali is getting high.