topic: Thailand

Rohingya Refugees: Semantics of Politics
March 15, 2016
For decades the running joke in Myanmar, known as Burma until 1989, was that George Orwell crafted his novel 1984 based on his personal...
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Shan diaspora excluded from Burma’s first election
November 7, 2015
On November 8, Burma will vote in the first competitive election in a generation. Yet these polls have been widely described as flawed ,...
Reportage
‘Slivers of Hope’ for Thailand’s Pakistani Refugees
October 22, 2015
Bangkok’s little-known population of Pakistani asylum seekers uses community action to respond to the challenges facing refugees without a...
Reportage
10 Years After the Tsunami: The Moken of Coastal Ranong
December 25, 2014
There was a time when Moken robbed Moken , the villagers of Thailand’s Koh Phayam remember quietly. Known as Southeast Asia’s people of the...
Reportage
No Steps Can Lead Them Further
May 21, 2014
Although Burmese President Thein Sein has initiated a series of democratic changes that the international world optimistically welcomed,...
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Genie in the Bottle
April 1, 2014
BANGKOK, THAILAND. Since the beginning of March, the streets of Bangkok have seemingly come back to their bustling normality. Traffic jams...