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Growing pains for Myanmar amidst reform
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 17/05/2018
» When San Dar Aye, a young ethnic Mon woman living in Ye town in the south of Myanmar, showed me a vast mudflat where her fellow villagers had replanted a mangrove forest, she told me the saplings would be "the future" of their communities.
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Under the pump
Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 01/05/2016
» The golden years for farmers in Ban Yang Hom, Chiang Rai arrived 20 years ago when local authorities installed a pumping station on the banks of the Ing River.
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Mae Wong dam plan in limbo
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 27/07/2015
» Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam has downplayed a proposal for Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-chan to invoke his special powers under Section 44 of the interim charter to speed up construction of the Mae Wong dam in Nakhon Sawan.
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Regime must heed South energy worries
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 30/08/2014
» The arrests of energy reform activists from the South during their march to Bangkok highlights the junta’s desire to stop public protests under martial law. But it also shows the regime’s support for industrial development in the face of locals' struggles to protect the environment, the source of their livelihoods.
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Swept up in silence
Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 20/07/2014
» When the monsoon season comes in early July, it brings turbulence to the Mekong River. Fishermen on Si Phan Don — a name meaning 4,000 islands which aptly evokes the riverine archipelago in southern Laos — take calculated risks when they climb through the rapids, every step bringing the potential of injury from the sharp rocks below.
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