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Army deserters in dire battle to hunt for homes abroad
Spectrum, Published on 08/04/2012
» Ko Aung is worried. He's read and heard about the reforms in Myanmar. The by-elections are over, and Aung San Suu Kyi's National League of Democracy (NLD) won 43 of 44 seats. The international community, including UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, welcomed the result.
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Reaching out to the people languishing in nowhere land
Spectrum, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 10/06/2012
» Fongchan Suksaneh says she was in a "quasi-stateless" situation for 25 years and applied numerous times for citizenship, before finally receiving it following promulgation of the fourth Nationality Act in 2008. "I was told many times, 'We don't need people like you. Go to a different country!' ... I wasn't considered a Thai person even though I couldn't tell the difference myself."
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PROPERTY IN THAILAND, Part 5 Documents of land rights
Spectrum, Published on 30/09/2012
» A couple of weeks ago we explained that the constitution protects individual property rights. But how are the rights to land bought, sold and evidenced in Thailand?
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In reforms' wake, Media gear up for war of words
Spectrum, Published on 16/12/2012
» Two decades ago, anyone in Myanmar caught in possession of a news journal produced by the ''exile media'' could be charged with distributing unlawful literature and face 20 years in jail.
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The knock-on effect for Bangkok's knock-offs
Spectrum, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 20/01/2013
» Last week, a man came to tell Jasmine, a vendor in the Nana area, that the Department of Special Investigation would be conducting a raid. He took the unusual step of telling her not only to temporarily close down, but to move all of her counterfeit goods back home for two days.
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Activist's disappearance gives vientiane a black eye in asean
Spectrum, Published on 16/06/2013
» Six months after the disappearance in Vientiane of Sombath Somphone, the founder of an NGO set up to help rural youth, the Lao government is looking increasingly like the black sheep among its Asean neighbours.
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Uncertain fate surrounds Myanmar’s border outcasts
Spectrum, Phil Thornton, Published on 23/02/2014
» It is a difficult time to be a refugee on the Thai-Myanmar border. Last month, the US all but stopped its refugee resettlement programme and many aid agencies have reduced their services.
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The zombie Nazis of North Asia
Spectrum, Michael Ruffles, Published on 02/03/2014
» Two impressive and creepy railway carriages stand entombed inside an Aladdin’s cave of goodies donated by dictators and despots in a museum nestled in Mount Myohyang. Both date back to the 1950s and both are well appointed in ways that befit a communist strongman; each had a bed, desk and space to conduct affairs of state, one had a chandelier. The one on the left with a khaki and green interior colour scheme was a gift from Mao Zedong, the blacker one to the right from Joseph Stalin.
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Degrees of dishonesty
Spectrum, Nattha Thepbamrung, Published on 25/05/2014
» Plagiarism seems to be a new word — especially for students.
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IP and Copyright: Part 2 — I’ll burn my girlfriend a mix CD
Spectrum, Published on 29/06/2014
» In our last article we introduced you to some key intellectual property terms and to some of the basic principles of intellectual property law. Today, while those of you without HBO are figuring out how to watch the recent Game of Thrones finale, we’ll focus on Thailand’s copyright laws.
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