• THAILAND

  Truth elusive in slaying of Cambodian activist

  Published on 24/12/2016

  » PHNOM PENH: Kem Ley, a poor rice farmer's son turned champion of Cambodia's have-nots, was sipping his usual iced latte in the same chair he had occupied most mornings for years. Eyewitnesses say a former soldier walked into the Caltex service station cafe, fired a semi-automatic Glock pistol into his chest and head and casually walked away.

• LIFE

  In the eye of the storm

  Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 30/09/2016

  » The photograph is brutal because the reality is brutal.

• THAILAND

  Feathers fly over party logos

  Published on 07/11/2015

  » YANGON — Voters in Myanmar's landmark election will be stumbling into a virtual aviary on unday when they see their ballot papers. And the confusion is ruffling political feathers.

• THAILAND

  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.

• THAILAND

  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.

• LIFE

  An American story

  Life, Published on 08/12/2014

  » The story of American expats in far-flung Siam is the tale of one of the world's most fascinating foreign communities, and a new book published by EDM Books offers a deep and detailed insight into it.

• THAILAND

  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.

• THAILAND

  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.

• BUSINESS

  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.

• THAILAND

  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.

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