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A tale of two cities _ bangkok and yangon face off as AEC 2015 nears
Spectrum, Published on 19/08/2012
» Southeast Asian countries will become a single economic community in 2015. As people in each of these countries will be able to move around freely and work or live in any other member nation, there will be a direct impact on the property market in the industrial, office, retail and especially residential sectors.
Pilgrimage of pain for sick
Spectrum, Phil Thornton, Published on 08/07/2012
» Mary Boullier's pale fingers probe the swollen skin surrounding the barely opened slit that remains of nine-year-old Tin Tin's left eye and says, "We don't know what is causing the swelling around her eye, but when Tin Tin was admitted here she had severe anaemia. If it was left untreated it could have caused heart failure."
Lip service alone won't end migrant labour misery, say activists
Spectrum, Published on 01/07/2012
» Thailand and multinationals benefiting from the export of cheap seafood are facing increasing pressure from the international community to address human trafficking abuses in seafood and other industries.
As Myanmar opens, donor exit at border puts dreams in peril
Spectrum, Published on 20/05/2012
» When she heard the foreign donations that paid for her studies were falling drastically, 16-year-old Myanmar migrant Seng Jam Longzaw began to worry that her dream of becoming a nurse was vanishing.
Development drive sees ethnic groups displaced by land grabs
Spectrum, Phil Thornton, Published on 22/04/2012
» At the ramshackle Ei Tu Hta camp more than 4,000 displaced people fear not just the the Myanmar military downstream on the Salween River, but also a constitution that will ''legally'' dispossess them of the land they were forced to flee.
Pioneering advocate for worker health says battle still uphill
Spectrum, Tunya Sukpanich, Published on 15/04/2012
» In 1993 when Somboon Sikhamdokkae discovered she was suffering from an occupational lung disease caused by working in a textile factory, she decided to establish a group to help other sick workers.
Thailand needs fresh mindset in dealing with 'new' Myanmar
Spectrum, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 01/04/2012
» The anticipated entry into mainstream Myanmar politics of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to hasten a Thai rethink of its policies regarding its neighbour to the west.
Mother Suu brings excitement and hope to campaign trail
Spectrum, Songpol Kaopatumtip, Published on 25/03/2012
» Clutching a bouquet of roses and a small red flag, Min Min Oo stood in the hot afternoon sun along with about 500 other people, many of them in red T-shirts with the National League for Democracy (NLD) logo. ''We started our trip at 6am. It's exhausting but we don't want to miss this once in a lifetime chance to welcome Daw Aung San Suu Kyi,'' said the 28-year-old graduate student from Kyaikhto town.
Govt 'holds vulnerable underwater to keep big business afloat'
Spectrum, Supara Janchitfah, Published on 18/03/2012
» Those whose homes and farms were ravaged by last year's floods are fuming over government compensation plans that they say unfairly favour big business at their expense. About 2.23 billion baht will go to build a 77km floodwall around Rojana Industrial Park and 728 million baht and 700 million baht, respectively, has been earmarked to build floodwalls around Bang Pa-in and Nava Nakorn industrial estates. Many of society's most vulnerable who lost nearly everything in the floods _ including labourers, small farmers, slum dwellers and home-based workers _ are entitled to a mere 5,000 baht in compensation.
She shall not be moved
Spectrum, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 12/02/2012
» Five years ago, Boeung Kak Lake was Phnom Penh's largest. It served as home to some 20,000 Cambodians as well as the capital's backpacker ghetto, where foreign travellers would sit on guest house patios in a cannabis haze to watch the sun set over the waters and finish another Angkor Beer. And although the lake was full of sewage and debris and was hardly pristine, it served as an important catchment basin for the capital, providing equilibrium during the wet and dry seasons.