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Myanmar Woman Pays for Baby to be Drugged, Smuggled Across Border
A Burmese man holding a newborn baby in the maternity ward CHIANG MAI – A Burmese woman working in Thailand hired a man to sedate and smuggle her 3-month-old baby across the border to relatives in...
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Refugees in Thai Border Camps Want Myanmar Government to Recognizer Their...
schools in Mae La providing the children who live in the camp with primary and secondary education. . . MAE LA – An old cartoon is circulating on social media. It depicts a tree, a schoolmaster and...
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The Economics of a Sex Worker in Thailand
young women prepare for a night of work at the Violin Karaoke bar in Chiang Mai CHIANG MAI – Nam doesn’t tiptoe around her work. She chose to enter the sex industry in Thailand because it was the...
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Thailand’s Sex Industry Surviving Junta Graft Crackdown
A police officer standing outside a bar in the Soi Cowboy nighttime entertainment area on Sukhumvit Road in Bangkok BANGKOK – Fern’s illegal cocktail bar which appears each night on a sidewalk...
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Thai Court Holds Final Day for Submitting Evidence Against Xayaburi Dam
Lawyers representing the Thai community members who filed the case against the Xayaburi Dam CHIANG RAI – The lawsuit filed by Thai Mekong communities against the builders of the Xayaburi Dam reached...
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Is Myanmar Prepared for Sex Tourists and Drunken Backpackers
Burma girl selling drinks at a bar in Myanmar . . RANGOON – There were few perks to the xenophobia that permeated Myanmar’s totalitarian junta for decades. But there was at least one: It kept the...
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World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Issue Warning on Mekong’s Biodiversity
Mekong River, Chiang Rai, Thailand . . CHIANG RAI – Scientists say the Southeast Asia’s rapid development is driving deforestation in the vital Mekong Subregion, and threatening scores of species in...
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Sexpat Stereotype Takes Toll on Daughters and Fathers
Chris Minko and his daught Anya, who is half Thai, discuss being stereotyped with Khmer Times reporters . . PHNOM PENH – After listening to diners at the table next to hers speculate about how her...
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The Global Shame of Sex Trafficking By Bob Jones
Thai law does forbid prostitution, and children, especially, are supposed to be protected from Western predators looking for a cheap night of pleasure . . BANGKOK – With his pressed, white shirt and...
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Female Buddhist Monks “Bhikkhunis” Challenge Thailand’s Status Quo
Their ranks and those of hundreds of aspirants — there are five stages before ordination — include a former Google executive, a Harvard graduate, journalists and doctors, as well as village noodle...
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Fear Rules Gen. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha’s Junta in Thailand
Thai Army chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha attends the inauguration ceremony of the National Legislative Assembly at the Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall . . BANGKOK – With the dust settling a week after...
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Golden Horse Temple Fights Drug Addiction with Horses and Boxing in Chiang Rai
A resident prays after offering alms to horse-riding monks during their early morning alms-collecting round, along the steep slopes surrounding the ‘Temple of the Golden Horse’ in Mae Chan-Photo...
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The Story of Mike and Anchaaya – A Transgender Marriage
Mike and Anchaaya had a ceremonial wedding in her hometown of Nan . . NAN – The story of Mike and Anchaaya is a similar story. Twelve years ago, Mike was visiting Thailand on a holiday. He went to a...
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NGOs Push for Postponement of Don Sahong Dam on Mekong
. . The lower three Mekong Countries, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam as well as environmental groups, have expressed concern about the Don Sahong dam’s impact on the environment, movement of fish and...
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The Darker Side of Being Transgender in Thailand
The Wat Kreung Tai Wittaya temple has been running a course to teach “masculinity” to transgender teens since 2008. CHIANG RAI – At Wat Kreung Tai Wittaya, a Buddhist temple in Chiang Khong, Thailand,...
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Non-Registered Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Bangkok
Pakistani refugees sit in a temporary room after being released on bail in Bangkok . . BANGKOK – Last week, I met with an American who wanted to apply for a tourist visa for his Thai wife. The American...
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Eleven Dams a Grave Threat to the Lower Mekong River Basin
For nearly two decades, the onslaught of the Mekong’s development by capitalists has spread its destructive wings with dozens of dams being planned on the lower and upper Mekong River mainstream . ....
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The Mekong Delta is Heading for Troubled Waters
Cai Rang, one of the largest floating fruit and vegetable markets in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, is a popular tourist attraction . . LOWER MEKONG – Lush greenery in the lower Mekong region sprawls as far...
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Mekong Villagers give their Testimony in Xayaburi Dam Case
Thai Mekong villagers gather outside the Administrative Court in Bangkok ahead of the hearing. . . BANGKOK – A Administrative Court in Bangkok heard testimony from two of the plaintiffs in the case...
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Fish Stocks Depleting in Cambodia’s Troubled Tonlé Sap Lake
Fishermen at work on Tonlé Sap lake, Cambodia. All photos: Sam Jones . . The Tonle Sap, translated as the “Great Lake” and often referred to as “Cambodia’s beating heart”, is the largest freshwater...
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