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Lip service alone won't end migrant labour misery, say activists
Spectrum, Published on 01/07/2012
» Thailand and multinationals benefiting from the export of cheap seafood are facing increasing pressure from the international community to address human trafficking abuses in seafood and other industries.
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Dead child walking
Spectrum, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 22/07/2012
» Just returned from a visit to Bangkok's notorious Bang Kwang prison, Toshi Kazama is ready to talk about criminal justice. On a rainy evening at the Foreign Correspondents' Club last week, the Japanese-born photographer shows slides of his photographs of juvenile offenders and speaks about the complexities of capital punishment. He has been photographing young people on death row since 1996, mostly in the US, where he has lived since the age of 15, and more recently across Asia.
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Fear, loathing and lies in Rakhine state
Spectrum, Published on 02/09/2012
» Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine State in Western Myanmar, has become a city full of stray dogs. Hundreds of them roam the streets abandoned by their owners, who were among the thousands forced to take refuge in camps for internally displaced people or otherwise relocate after a murderous wave of sectarian violence between the Buddhist Rakhine majority and the Muslim Rohingya minority erupted in the region two months ago.
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Overwhelming odds get better of efforts to stamp out prison drug trade
Spectrum, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 09/09/2012
» In the early morning of Aug 18, Nakhon Si Thammarat prison warder Od Sae Pua was shot dead on the way home from the prison where he worked for years. The reason was simply that he had refused to help smuggle drugs into the prison and that he reported the attempt to bribe him to do so to his bosses.
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Blemishes in the beautiful game
Spectrum, Post Reporters, Published on 23/09/2012
» The findings of an ongoing parliamentary investigation may threaten the existence of the Football Association of Thailand (FAT), said the spokesman of a committee on corruption last week. As a public organisation under royal patronage and a recipient of public funds, the FAT is not allowed to seek profit, but evidence that the Thai Premier League (TPL) runs on a profit-making model could lead to court-ordered sanctions including dissolving the body that runs football in Thailand.
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Farmers hope for fair shake with paper plant
Spectrum, Tunya Sukpanich, Published on 14/10/2012
» Sa paper items are ubiquitous in northern handicraft shops, where the rough parchment is used in everything from the region's distinctive paper umbrellas to paintings, calligraphy and other hand-crafted decorative items.
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Hun Sen without royal check good news for China
Spectrum, Published on 21/10/2012
» The death of Cambodia's Norodom Sihanouk last Monday in Beijing symbolised how China had sheltered him in a mansion with personal medical, diplomatic and financial assistance throughout much of his often bloody reign.
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Villagers vow they won't give up homes for dam
Spectrum, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 04/11/2012
» As soon as staff from an engineering consultancy company arrived at the site of the proposed Kaeng Sua Ten dam project in Phrae province late last month, a scuffle broke out between them and locals from the nearby village of Sa-Iab. Later there was another brief confrontation between officials trying to install water level monitors in the Yom River and villagers who tried to stop them. The officials were surrounded and finally driven out of Sa-Iab in a scene reminiscent of one 10 years ago when villagers seized staff from a consultancy firm employed by the World Bank, injuring some of them.
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Dreams take centre stage at transgender beauty pageant
News, Published on 11/11/2012
» `My, you are an interesting group. Welcome to our gallery of glamour,'' booms the PA, on a loop of audience platitudes across banks of empty seats. The stage is a flurry of flustered stylists, choreographers desperately rehearsing lip-syncing routines, jostling film crews and contestants milling around in sequinned silk dressing gowns. This is the dress rehearsal for the world's most arresting beauty pageant. Twenty-one transgender women from 17 different countries have earned the right to compete in Miss International Queen 2012.
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Turnabout is foreplay
Spectrum, Published on 30/12/2012
» A young Thai woman far outside her comfort zone wanders the red-neon-bathed back alleys of Mong Kok in Hong Kong, trepidatiously trying to look through the darkened windows of sex shops and following the signs up rickety stairs, on the hunt for a very specific souvenir.
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