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Fight over the spoils leads to rights abuses
Spectrum, Justin Heifetz, Published on 02/03/2014
» On a humid July day in Shan state, a 12-year-old girl was playing under the monsoon rains falling over her tiny northern township of Ke See. The Myanmar army had been quietly building a presence there since 2009, after the government signed a deal with China to lay pipelines through the area to take oil and gas from the Rakhine basin in the west to Yunnan province. These pipelines, called the Shwe, would be a safe alternative to the strategically vulnerable Strait of Malacca — so the governments said.
The only farang in the temple
Spectrum, Justin Heifetz, Published on 03/11/2013
» Margo Somboon wears the robes of a devout Buddhist and keeps a LinkedIn profile. From her temple in Ayutthaya, she posts about religion on Facebook, shares pictures of His Majesty the King on Pinterest and wages a YouTube campaign against genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
Publish and be damned
Spectrum, Justin Heifetz, Published on 06/10/2013
» A dozen daily print periodicals hit the streets running after government reforms in the media _ and while it's become a futile battle to post gains, journalists struggling for breath in the saturated market persevere for new-found freedoms. On shoestring budgets in leaky offices, media owners are converting old residential apartments into newsrooms.