| Time for NLD to Speak Up |
One of the world’s "biodiversity hotspots" is under siege, as a growing number of business interests seek to cash in the "peace" in northern Burma’s Kachin State. |
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An illegal version of the state lottery is lining the pockets of dealers and officials, but leaving ordinary Burmese none the richer. |
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America’s 1969-75 "Sideshow" war in Cambodia is overshadowed by the horrors of the Pol Pot era that followed, but the human cost may have been greater than previously thought. |
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Chiang Mai is losing its "green and clean" image—and its identity—thanks to Bangkok’s efforts to turn it into the "headquarters" of northern Thailand. |
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While Muslims around the world protest against airstrikes in Afghanistan, Burma’s Muslims are keeping silent, as the latest wave of communal violence continues. |
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Muslims across Thailand staged peaceful protests calling for an end to the attack on Afghanistan by the US and its allies. Muslim leaders have also urged a boycott of American goods and services. |
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An American doctor recalls his encounters with the Burmese army in the years before it seized power. |
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A writer who has lived along the war-torn Thai-Burma border explores the metaphorical borders that circumscribe our understanding of the conflict in Afghanistan. |
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To resolve the conflict that led to the attacks of Sept 11, we must learn to see the other side as human beings who have the same feelings as we do. |
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