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Sombath case needs pressure
News, Published on 16/12/2013
» Sombath Somphone was probably the most effective and best-known NGO representative in Laos. One year and one day ago, on his way home for dinner, Mr Sombath was pulled from his car by several unknown men just outside Vientiane. He was bundled into a police vehicle and driven away. He has not been seen since, and his government has not just ignored the case, it has actively worked to cover it up.
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'Mango man' takes a broom to graft-ridden Indian politics
AFP, Published on 20/11/2013
» Arriving in a small and scruffy blue car, India's newest political star springs from the front seat, shirt untucked, and walks towards his supporters with the air of a low-key civil servant.
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Thailand, take note from Indonesia
News, Published on 23/10/2013
» Two decades ago, Indonesia was under the rule of strongman president Suharto, with military and political influences dominating many spheres of domestic life. Corruption, collusion and nepotism were pervasive. Indonesia, however, began its political change following the downfall of Suharto in 1998 when more democratic forms of governance began to take root.
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An accidental activist
Muse, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 07/09/2013
» Pratubjit Neelapaijit considers herself part of Bangkok's middle class through and through. Growing up listening to her father, the disappeared lawyer Somchai Neelapaijit, and mother Angkhana discussing human rights violations and social issues, the young Pratubjit felt compassionate yet detached.
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Laos faces rebuff in UN council seat push
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 29/08/2013
» The Lao government's inaction on the disappearance of activist Sombath Sompone would hinder the country's quest for membership of the United Nations Human Rights Council, a member of the European Union (EU) parliament said yesterday.
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Border refugees still getting raw deal from health system
News, Published on 12/08/2013
» After decades of dedication in providing medical treatment for refugees along the Thai-Myanmar border, Myanmar doctor Cynthia Maung, Ramon Magsaysay Award winner and founder of the famed Mae Tao clinic in Mae Sot of Tak, talks to PARITTA WANGKIAT about the current situation of public health among refugees, migrants, and undocumented people.
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Group working to re-buy clinic land
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 08/08/2013
» A civil society group is negotiating to repurchase two plots of land in Tak that had been earmarked to house expansions to Mae Tao Clinic.
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Rebel with a cause
Spectrum, Published on 04/08/2013
» When Lahpai Seng Raw, along with several other prominent Kachin, first started the Metta Foundation in 1998, she was faced with a humanitarian crisis in northern Myanmar and a lack of funds to deal with it.
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Monk defends sale of Mae Tao clinic land
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 21/07/2013
» Embattled monk Phra Kittisak Kittisopano has defended his recent sale of a plot of land that is home to the Mae Tao clinic run by Ramon Magsaysay laureate Cynthia Maung.
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Monk defends sale of Mae Tao clinic land
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 20/07/2013
» Embattled monk Phra Kittisak Kittisopano has defended his recent sale of a plot of land that is home to the Mae Tao clinic run by Ramon Magsaysay laureate Cynthia Maung.
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