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No mere rub-down
News, Published on 04/12/2022
» Thailand has earned the reputation of being a destination for a body rejuvenation, a label reinforced at the recent Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit which helped spread the word about the healing wonders of Thai traditional massage, or nuad Thai.
Torture bill tied in knots
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 10/10/2021
» Getting a draft law fighting torture and enforced disappearances to parliament was an uphill battle but fleshing it out may be a lot harder to do, according to experts.
Wanchalearm fate riles activists
News, Thana Boonlert, Published on 22/06/2020
» Two weeks have gone by, but the fate of activist Wanchalearm Satsaksit who was abducted near his apartment in Phnom Penh on June 4 remains cloaked in mystery.
Plight of 'little ghosts' in South Korea
News, Kornchanok Raksaseri, Published on 29/09/2019
» It has been a year since a Thai labour minister met his Korean counterpart to solve the problem of "little ghost" illegal migrant workers in South Korea.
Bride trafficking: Mekong women pressed into marriage in China
AFP, Published on 11/12/2018
» PHNOM PENH: Everyone did well from Nary's marriage to a Chinese man, except the young Cambodian bride herself, who returned home from the six-year ordeal destitute, humiliated and with little prospect of seeing her son again.
China seizes Uighurs, abducts children as 'orphans'
Associated Press, Published on 24/09/2018
» ISTANBUL: Every morning, Meripet wakes up to her nightmare: The Chinese government has turned four of her children into orphans, even though she and their father are alive.
How two young reporters shook Myanmar
Reuters, Published on 09/08/2018
» YANGON: Late in the afternoon of Dec 12 last year, Wa Lone's cell phone rang. It was a man named Naing Lin, a lance corporal in Myanmar's 8th Security Police Battalion.
Migrants face changing climate
Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 01/07/2018
» The arrival of May once reminded Lin Na that the first rain of the year was on its way. The ground in her small village of Prey Veng province in southern Cambodia would start to soften, dampened by rainfall. This time each year, she would help her family cultivate a two-hectare rice field, the main source of food and income for them throughout the year.
Fighting for a way of life
Spectrum, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 24/06/2018
» The Supreme Administrative Court's ruling ordering the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation to pay 300,000 baht in compensation to six Karen people living in Kaeng Krachan National Park in Phetchaburi province is a mixed victory for the minority group in its lengthy struggle with parks officials for the right to occupy forest land.
Shark-bite fame, or bust
Spectrum, Published on 29/04/2018
» Sai Noi Beach in southern Hua Hin is usually packed with tourists in the summer due to its powdery white sands and pristine blue waters, but over the past two weeks this normally bustling beach has been almost deserted. Beachgoers started avoiding the place after a foreign tourist was recently attacked by a bull shark.