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Surrogacy row erupts with Israel
News, Justin Heifetz, Published on 02/02/2014
» Same-sex couples in Israel have been dealt a blow after their babies born to surrogates in Thailand were denied passports to enter the country.
Yes, we have no submarines
Spectrum, Justin Heifetz, Published on 09/02/2014
» As tensions rose last week between China and Japan over control of the South China Sea, the prospects of its impact on Thai waters and the preparedness of the country's navy to deal with it has been brought into question.
Monet in a photograph
B Magazine, Justin Heifetz, Published on 23/02/2014
» Daniel Cordonnier hates two things: air conditioners and God. But only recently has he been able to give full expression to his feelings. For much of his life the Parisian was dispassionate, his creative desires and ambitions stifled as he pursued a lucrative business manufacturing air conditioners. Then he remembered a day in his childhood that changed everything.
Fight over the spoils leads to rights abuses
Spectrum, Justin Heifetz, Published on 02/03/2014
» On a humid July day in Shan state, a 12-year-old girl was playing under the monsoon rains falling over her tiny northern township of Ke See. The Myanmar army had been quietly building a presence there since 2009, after the government signed a deal with China to lay pipelines through the area to take oil and gas from the Rakhine basin in the west to Yunnan province. These pipelines, called the Shwe, would be a safe alternative to the strategically vulnerable Strait of Malacca — so the governments said.
Fire starters on the fringe
Spectrum, Justin Heifetz, Published on 16/03/2014
» Kai is ready to leave the rubbish dump where he lives — but not because he wants to.
Bad medicine and sick system take their toll
Spectrum, Justin Heifetz, Published on 01/12/2013
» Naw Mu Htoo is constantly leaking urine. A gentle 16-year-old, she's already had a stillbirth and moves by wheelchair _ if she moves at all. She can't stand, or her catheter pulls out.
Moderate, for the most part
Spectrum, Justin Heifetz, Published on 08/12/2013
» Despite an outcry over methods of crowd control through a heated week of political protests on the streets of Bangkok, experts and analysts say the Yingluck administration has exercised restraint in its riot-control methods.
When the mob mentality takes over
Spectrum, Justin Heifetz, Published on 15/12/2013
» Is hatred of one man _ even if it is Thaksin Shinawatra _ enough to justify a rebellion of the country's middle class, who some experts say have no other real cause than that hate?
Bearing the brunt of male chauvinism
Spectrum, Justin Heifetz, Published on 15/12/2013
» Yingluck Shinawatra is hardly the first female politician to be subjected to misogynistic comments. In fact, the treatment the caretaker prime minister has received follows that of a long line of women leaders who have come in for criticism their male counterparts have not had to endure.
Embattled journalists mystified by navy stance as Rohingya story draws legal ire
News, Justin Heifetz, Published on 22/12/2013
» Alan Morison never expected to be on the wrong side of the Royal Thai Navy. Having worked as a journalist in Phuket for nearly a decade, his professional rapport with them was always amicable.