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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.
Yes, we have no submarines
Spectrum, Justin Heifetz, Published on 09/02/2014
» As tensions rose last week between China and Japan over control of the South China Sea, the prospects of its impact on Thai waters and the preparedness of the country's navy to deal with it has been brought into question.
Divided fourth estate urges a third way
Spectrum, Justin Heifetz, Published on 19/01/2014
» Opinion is obviously divided within Thailand, but what is the rest of the world saying? Media opinion on the Bangkok Shutdown is also divided across the region.
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.
Not much dealing in a one-stock town
Spectrum, Justin Heifetz, Published on 17/11/2013
» At 11.30am, Cambodia's securities exchange goes to sleep. The trading floor of the CSX empties _ but then it's only about the size of a living room. The lights are turned off and most employees are off for the day. And nearly three years on from its establishment, the exchange lists a grand total of one stock.