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    History in the making at new 'people's parliament'

    Spectrum, Published on 29/07/2012

    » It must be the widest, smoothest road in Myanmar. Yet there is no traffic and not a single pothole to dodge, just a smattering of SUVs and saloons arriving at a huge gate each morning. From a distance, the vehicles look like ants scurrying across a big white board. Welcome to Myanmar's first "people's parliament".

  • THAILAND

    Power plays on the Mekong

    Spectrum, Post Reporters, Published on 29/07/2012

    » Eventually, we could proceed no further. In the distance, a one-metre high gravel barrier emerged from the brownish waters of the Mekong, the planned construction site of the controversial Xayaburi Dam. As we moved closer, we could see the gravel wall had blocked most of the width of the river and there was only a small channel with rocks and rapids left for the longtail boat to navigate through.

  • THAILAND

    Going green not easy for city office renters

    Spectrum, Published on 03/06/2012

    » Property developers who want to go green find it easy these days as many experts and consultants are available to advise on developing environmentally friendly and energy efficient buildings. But becoming a green tenant could be a different story, particularly in countries such as Thailand where best practices and case studies remain limited.

  • THAILAND

    Youth wasted on beggars' road to Thailand

    Spectrum, Published on 20/05/2012

    » Dice roll and cards are dealt every day in the seven casinos along the Poipet-Thai border, but just five kilometres away in the ramshackle village of Kbal Spean, gamblers of a different sort are playing for much higher stakes: betting their and their children's lives as they struggle to eke out a meagre living as beggars in Thailand.

  • THAILAND

    As Myanmar opens, donor exit at border puts dreams in peril

    Spectrum, Published on 20/05/2012

    » When she heard the foreign donations that paid for her studies were falling drastically, 16-year-old Myanmar migrant Seng Jam Longzaw began to worry that her dream of becoming a nurse was vanishing.

  • THAILAND

    Knowledge essential to rental riches

    Spectrum, Published on 20/05/2012

    » Rental yields remained largely unchanged in the first quarter of this year in the downtown Bangkok condominium market, ranging from 3% to 9%, despite prices for new properties rising and no significant growth in the number of expatriate tenants. The findings appear in CBRE's quarterly survey based on all of the company's letting transactions for the last quarter.

  • THAILAND

    Your pension: the harsh realities

    Spectrum, Andrew Wood, Published on 20/05/2012

    » One of the most difficult things to predict is the amount of income you will need for your golden years. This is something you should discuss with your financial adviser so that he or she can make detailed calculations and come up with a projection for you to use as a target.

  • THAILAND

    TAXES IN THAILAND XVII: Who has to file a tax return?

    Spectrum, Published on 29/04/2012

    » In the last few weeks we have had many readers contact us with questions about what tax returns they're supposed to file with the Thai government. In particular, some stated they had work permits, that taxes were being withheld and paid for them by their employers, but that they had never filed returns nor had they been asked to.

  • THAILAND

    A mercenary's tale

    Spectrum, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 06/05/2012

    » Peter Slade was once in prison for five years on charges of murder, conspiracy to commit another murder and attempting to overthrow a foreign government _ partly a victim, he says, of a corrupt Australian judicial system. He fought in the Vietnam War, was a security contractor in 1973 Rhodesia, a debt collector at home in Melbourne and as far afield as Nigeria, and arrived in reconstruction-era Cambodia and Iraq without connections but a desire to start anew, in stints that would last some seven years each. He witnessed first-hand the Bangkok coup that killed journalists Neil Davis and Bill Latch in 1985 and was on the beach in Patong the morning the tsunami struck Phuket in 2004.

  • THAILAND

    Emerging drug-resistant strain a fierce foe in malaria battle

    Spectrum, Published on 06/05/2012

    » Malaria remains a public health concern in Thailand even though the number of infected patients has declined tremendously from 125,000 in 1998 to 35,600 in 2007 and 34,002 in 2011. What's causing alarm among officials now, however, is the emerging resistance of Plasmodium falciparum _ the parasite responsible for malaria _ to conventional drugs.

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