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Showcasing Bangladesh
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 25/05/2016
» For the past 17 months, Bangladeshi ambassador Saida Muna Tasneem has been promoting her country's rich cultural heritage in Thailand. It is now time to showcase the rest of the country at the Bangladesh Trade and Investment Expo 2016. Held at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre, May 30 to June 1, it will be a time for business matchmaking opportunities for both sides.
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An unbreakable bond
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 06/06/2022
» As Hong Kong's Covid-19 situation continues to stabilise after a spike in cases and deaths earlier this year, the coastal city is now looking forward to reconnecting with trading partners in Asean through travel and business ventures, according to Edward Yau, Hong Kong's Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development.
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Thailand's women cricketers making a mark internationally
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 09/06/2022
» Thailand's national women cricketers have become one of the most rapidly improving teams in the world of cricket. Their string of accolades includes a historic win last year over Bangladesh at the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifiers.
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The rupture
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 03/04/2020
» As founding director of Bangkok's La Lanta Fine Art, Sukontip Prahanpap is now struggling with the impact of Covid-19, especially following the government's announcement that it will close down museums and other public spaces until the end of this month.
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Fear and desperation in Latin America
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 11/10/2019
» At Simon Bolivar International Bridge, the most transited point across the Tachira River on the Venezuela-Colombia border, Thailand's UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Praya "Pu" Lundberg witnessed a grim sight.
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The eyes of a refugee
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 24/06/2019
» Pairoj Pichetmetakul spent five days in Cox's Bazar, one of the world's largest refugee camps in Bangladesh. There, an estimated 1.4 million members of the Rohingya population, who have fled atrocities at the hands of Myanmar soldiers, are facing hardship. Due to their large numbers, humanitarian-aid agencies are barely able to offer basic necessities such as food, shelter and medicine, and often campaign for donations.
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What's love got to do with it?
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 14/01/2019
» Soft-spoken anti-child-marriage activist Albina knows all too well the downside to early and forced marriages, from her community of Sunsari in Nepal. Her mother was a product of such a union, forced to leave school at age 16 and marry a man of her parents' choice.
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The refugees' witness
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 23/07/2018
» Documenting the heart-wrenching and often emotionally distressing images of the Rohingya refugee crisis is not for the vulnerable or faint-hearted.
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Breaking the fast, together
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 04/06/2018
» For the last decade Hussein, a lanky Muslim Rohingya, has been breaking his Ramadan fast -- or iftar -- at the century-old Jami-ul-Islam Mosque in Soi Ramkhamhaeng 53. For Hussein, the mosque on this busy eastern neighbourhood of Bangkok is more than just a house of worship; it has become his second home, especially during Ramadan, the fasting month when family usually gathers round at sunset to eat the first meal together. Hussein, 27 and a father of one, misses his parents and relatives who continue to reside in refugee camps in Bangladesh.
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Ignore the Rohingya at our peril
Asia focus, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 20/11/2017
» It was not just human rights groups that were let down last week when Asean leaders invoked their principle of non-interference in each other's internal affairs and skirted around the ongoing mass exodus of persecuted Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar.
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