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Meet the Myanmar junta’s hi-so helpers
Published on 25/12/2021
» Three years ago, the Kyaw Thaung family partied at the Pegu Club. The venerable Burmese Irish clan had restored the teak-lined establishment to its 19th-century glory. The Pegu Club project befitted the family’s East-meets-West positioning and the optimism of a country newly engaging with the world.
Hi-so clubbing, Covid explosion: Krystal clear
Published on 06/06/2021
» When the VVIP customers disembarked from their limousines at the Krystal Exclusive Club, young women in tiaras, angel wings and not much else sometimes greeted them.
Myanmar ethnic divisions soften after coup
Published on 01/05/2021
» The Myanmar military’s disinformation was crude but effective.
Thailand’s roads are deadly. Especially if you’re poor
Published on 20/08/2019
» The woman was riding on a motorcycle on her way to work when a pickup truck sideswiped her on a rural stretch of asphalt in northeastern Thailand. The truck’s driver was an off-duty police officer. He was drunk.
Rapper has more to say as election nears
Published on 16/02/2019
» The rhymes came to Nutthapong Srimuong before dawn, when Bangkok is as still as it can be and the night jasmine overpowers the capital with its perfume.
The minefield of reporting the Rohingya
News, Johanna Son, Published on 19/04/2018
» When the Myanmar Journalism Institute held a discussion on the Rohingya crisis, it had to be an "invitation only" event instead of a public one. In Myanmar media, it has become mainstream to avoid using the word Rohingya and keep some distance from a topic that is too sensitive and too risky for the political and financial survival of news outlets.