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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.
Surrogacy row erupts with Israel
News, Justin Heifetz, Published on 02/02/2014
» Same-sex couples in Israel have been dealt a blow after their babies born to surrogates in Thailand were denied passports to enter the country.
Reporters 'Prepared for prison' in navy defamation lawsuit
News, Justin Heifetz, Published on 29/12/2013
» Even with the clout of the UN on his side, Phuket-based journalist Alan Morison says he would rather go to prison in defence of media freedom than flee the country as he battles a defamation suit launched by the Royal Thai Navy.
Embattled journalists mystified by navy stance as Rohingya story draws legal ire
News, Justin Heifetz, Published on 22/12/2013
» Alan Morison never expected to be on the wrong side of the Royal Thai Navy. Having worked as a journalist in Phuket for nearly a decade, his professional rapport with them was always amicable.
When the mob mentality takes over
Spectrum, Justin Heifetz, Published on 15/12/2013
» Is hatred of one man _ even if it is Thaksin Shinawatra _ enough to justify a rebellion of the country's middle class, who some experts say have no other real cause than that hate?
Moderate, for the most part
Spectrum, Justin Heifetz, Published on 08/12/2013
» Despite an outcry over methods of crowd control through a heated week of political protests on the streets of Bangkok, experts and analysts say the Yingluck administration has exercised restraint in its riot-control methods.