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Crackdown theatre masks border graft
News, Paskorn Jumlongrach, Published on 06/12/2025
» The thunderous explosion that sent a 12-storey building crashing to the ground in the border backwater of Shwe Kokko at midday on Wednesday sounded like a major accident, if not an earthquake.
Cry for help from Moei River 'scam city'
News, Paskorn Jumlongrach, Published on 10/01/2025
» 'Do you think I can get out of here?" the question induced sudden dead air as no one could answer it. But for people familiar with the stories of a city of scammers located in a border town in Myanmar, it is not difficult to feel the gravity of terror inflicted on the woman who raised such a question.
Myawaddy's fall should concern region
Oped, Paskorn Jumlongrach, Published on 20/04/2024
» As the battle against the Myanmar junta intensifies, the allied resistance forces have gained momentum with the seizure of the border town of Myawaddy.
People-to-people diplomacy a better fit
Oped, Paskorn Jumlongrach, Published on 03/04/2024
» A large crowd gathered near the 2nd Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge in Mae Sot district on the morning of March 25 as the Thai government, through the Thai Red Cross Society and its Myanmar counterpart, released the first batch of humanitarian aid to those affected by fighting between Myanmar army and ethnic resistance forces.
Karen living in fear after Thailand turns its back
News, Paskorn Jumlongrach, Published on 06/04/2021
» For more than a week, thousands of Karen villagers who fled the airstrikes on March 27 that targeted the Karen National Union (KNU) stronghold have been stranded in the jungle, starving and in fear for their lives.
Respect Jai Paen Din villagers' right to homeland
News, Paskorn Jumlongrach, Published on 08/02/2021
» It has been almost a month since a group of ethnic Karen villagers left their relocation site down the hill and headed back to Jai Paen Din village, the place they had called home for generations, deep in the Kaeng Krachan jungle.
Anti-migrant stance asking for trouble
Oped, Paskorn Jumlongrach, Published on 06/01/2021
» The rapid rise in Covid-19 infection cases among migrant labour -- thousands are located in Samut Sakhon alone -- has caused alarm.
Fight for the Mekong gathers pace
Oped, Paskorn Jumlongrach, Published on 26/11/2020
» More than 20 years ago, when two Chiang Rai-based environmentalists, Niwat Roikaew and Somkiat Kuenwongsa, learned that the Chinese government were blasting rapids in the upper Mekong River from Yunnan to Myanmar and Laos to clear the way for large commercial vessels, they started worrying.