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In the eye of the storm
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 30/09/2016
» The photograph is brutal because the reality is brutal.
Salween dam projects jeopardise fragile ceasefire accords
News, Published on 12/05/2015
» Myanmar's government calls them signposts of modernity: a string of huge dam projects along the mighty Salween River, one of Asia's last untamed waterways, needed to meet economic goals and energy demands as the country opens its doors to the outside world.
US 'handed Cambodia to butcher', ambassador recalls
Published on 17/04/2015
» PARIS — Twelve helicopters, bristling with guns and US Marines, breached the morning horizon and began a daring descent toward Cambodia's besieged capital. Residents believed the Americans were rushing in to save them, but at the US Embassy, in a bleeding city about to die, the ambassador wept.
City histories vanishing amid growth
Published on 28/08/2014
» Century-old shophouses, twisting alleyways and temples scented with incense still pulsate with the pursuit of old trades and time-honoured rituals of families who have lived in Bangkok's Chinatown for generations - but probably not for much longer.
Edible insects a boon for farmers
Published on 25/08/2014
» THANON NANG KLARN — Depending solely on the rains to either yield a good rice crop or leave their fields dry and barren, farmers in this village in northeastern Thailand led a precarious and back-breaking existence. Then they discovered bugs.
Teething troubles for Chinese tourists
Associated Press, Published on 15/04/2014
» CHIANG MAI — The bucolic, once laid-back campus of one of Thailand's top universities is under a security clampdown. Not against a terrorist threat, but against Chinese tourists.
Killing of environmental activists rises globally
News, Published on 15/04/2014
» As head of his village, Prajob Naowa-opas battled to save his Chachoengsao province community from the illegal dumping of toxic waste by filing petitions and leading villagers to block trucks carrying the stuff - until a gunman in broad daylight fired four shots into him.
Democracy, monarchy and prehistory
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 03/03/2014
» In Before Siam: Essays In Art And Archaeology, scholars and historians go beyond the Sukhothai and Ayutthaya kingdoms, bringing readers back to prehistory when the area where Bangkok is now located was a sea, its shoreline in modern day Ang Thong province.
Nay Pyi Taw now less of a ghost town
Associated Press, Published on 11/12/2013
» NAY PYI TAW — Watched around the clock, bathed twice a day and otherwise pampered, five white elephants are munching on choice greenery in Myanmar's vast, remote and surreal capital. Above them soars a shimmering, gold-plated pagoda.
Refugees face uncertain future as Myanmar opens up
Associated Press, Published on 12/05/2013
» Since the day she was born, 20-year-old Naw Lawnadoo has known almost nothing of the world beyond the fence and guard posts that hem her in with 45,000 others — ethnic minorities from Myanmar and those like her who were born and raised in the Mae La refugee camp in neighbouring Thailand.