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ENVIRONMENT-CAMBODIA: Denuded by Corruption, Plunder, Impunity
‘'If (they) come to Cambodia, I will hit them until their heads are broken,'' says a government official from the South-east Asian country in a local newspaper report on Tuesday.THAILAND: Plebiscite Minus Political Parties?
With Thailand's first-ever referendum to approve a new constitution steadily approaching, a debate about the role political parties should play in this plebiscite has taken centre stage.POLITICS-THAILAND: Junta Faces Discontent After Largest Party Banned
For women like Thitirut Hochi and men like Wasuwat Datanabodee, Thailand is heading for dark and troubling times. They said so with tears and anger on Thursday morning at the headquarters of the country's largest political party.BURMA: Pro-Democracy Activists Break New Ground
Burmese political exiles in Thailand are relishing the thrust made by some 500 pro-democracy activists on the streets of Rangoon, the former capital. On Sunday, they stared down the country's military dictatorship by staging a public rally for freedom.POLITICS-THAILAND: Main Political Parties Face Crippling Ban
Thailand's political temperature may rise further after May 30 when a special tribunal determines the fate of the country's oldest and largest political parties.ENVIRONMENT: Learning to Live With the Mekong’s Floods
A Vietnamese academic has developed a small following over the past two years for his views about the waters that inundate the Mekong delta. The seminars he attends ends with participants wanting to know more.MEDIA-THAILAND: Community Radio Refuses to Go Silent
They may still be on the margins of the country's media landscape with their limited reach on the airwaves and small audiences, but Thailand's community radio stations are refusing to go silent.BIODIVERSITY-PHILIPPINES: Warmer Seas Threaten Rich Marine Life
For the past 11 years, Scott Sharpe, a diver from Hawaii, has been exploring the undersea world off the coast of the Philippines. It is the beauty of that country's marine life that drew him to the archipelago.HEALTH-THAILAND: Holding Big Pharma’s Feet to the Fire
For nearly a week the advertising pages of Thai and English-language dailies have been the stage for debates on Thailand's decision to break patents on anti-AIDS drugs in the interest of public health.BURMA: Freedom for Suu Kyi Haunts Junta
One date, May 27, has come to haunt Burma's military rulers. It marks the occasion when the junta customarily extends the current detention of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.HEALTH: Thailand Turns Giant Pharma Killer
By standing up to pressure from big pharmaceutical companies over cheap anti-AIDS drugs, Thailand may have created an opening in global trade rules that will permit developing countries to more readily break patents in times of public health emergencies.HEALTH: Thailand Turns Giant Pharma Killer
By standing up to pressure from ‘big pharma' over cheap anti-AIDS drugs, Thailand may have created an opening in global trade rules that will permit developing countries to more readily break patents in times of public health emergencies.CLIMATE CHANGE: ‘A Problem of Lifestyles’
An eleventh hour intervention by the Indian delegation at a major U.N. climate change conference here pushed to centre stage the need for a dramatic shift in lifestyles rather than dependence on green-friendly technology for solutions to global warming.CLIMATE CHANGE: ‘A Problem of Lifestyles’
An eleventh hour intervention by the Indian delegation at a major U.N. climate change conference here pushed to centre stage the need for a dramatic shift in lifestyles rather than dependence on green-friendly technology for solutions to global warming.POLITICS-THAILAND: Charter Of, By and For the Elites
As they makes half-hearted attempts to restore democracy in Thailand, the country's elites that profited most from last September's coup are in two minds about the role of elections and public participation in the future.CLIMATE CHANGE-THAILAND: Submergence – Grim Reality for Coastal Folk
The sound of waves from the nearby sea is no comfort for the chief abbot of the Buddhist temple in this fishing village in the Gulf of Thailand.CLIMATE CHANGE: UN Panel Has Solutions for the Willing
Solutions to stop global warming outlined in a new United Nations-backed report may ignite heated debates, if not actually compel governments to make choices that would impact their respective economies.CLIMATE CHANGE: UN Panel Has Solutions for the Willing
Solutions to stop global warming outlined in a new United Nations-backed report may ignite heated debates, if not actually compel governments to make choices that would impact their respective economies.BURMA: Asian Highway to Disaster?
A regional U.N. body that claims to care about Asia's economically weak and marginalised is being taken to task for helping pave the way to achieve the opposite - strengthening a military dictatorship with development projects on the back of people under its oppressive grip.POLITICS-THAILAND: Junta Prefers Polls Minus Rallies
Thailand's journey back to democracy may prove to be a rough one since the military-appointed government and the junta are in two minds about the space for public demonstrations.EDUCATION-THAILAND: Full Marks for Ethnic Tolerance Class
School holidays, which begins here in March and ends in May, have taken on a different ring this year for over 150 teenagers from Thailand's southern provinces, where an increasingly bloody insurgency is raging.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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