Passage Through Mexico: The Global Migration To The US
The sun has barely risen and already hundreds of migrants are gathered outside the vast white and green immigration detention centre, hoping to get through its gates. Most have travelled thousands of miles on foot, by boat and bus from South America, but few here speak Spanish. In front of the locked gates near Mexico’s […]
‘Haafu’ And Proud: Miss World Japan Won By Mixed-Race Contestant
Japan will be represented at this year’s Miss World contest by a woman with a Japanese mother and Indian father after Priyanka Yoshikawa became the country’s second mixed-race contestant in a row chosen for a major international pageant. The qualified elephant trainer who counts kickboxing among her hobbies said she would use her title to […]
‘Paradise On Earth’: China’s Hangzhou Gets Propaganda Facelift For G20 Summit
As China prepares to host the G20 for the first time, even its mice are feeling the heat. A red banner, hung by Communist party officials in a rundown neighbourhood near the meeting’s venue in Hangzhou, urges residents to take up arms against the troublesome quartet of flies, cockroaches, mosquitoes and rodents before the event […]
Bridging The Language Divide In Thailand’s Strife-Torn Deep South
For Ismail Jamaat, a science teacher at Tanjung primary school, going to work can feel like entering a war zone. During the past decade, his government school has endured three firebomb attacks. In 2013, Ismail, along with scores of schoolchildren, witnessed the murder of his friend and colleague Cholathee Charoenchol by masked gunmen […]
Cambodia Proves Fertile Ground For Foreign Surrogacy After Thailand Ban
After a long day of selling snacks at her son’s primary school, Kew, who is seven months pregnant, squats on the Bangkok pavement to take a rest. The single mother has no idea whose baby she is carrying, or where its future parents live. She says it makes no difference to her. “The first […]
Cambodians Sue US And Thai Firms Over Trafficking And Forced Labour Claims
Cambodian villagers have filed a lawsuit against four companies that supply American supermarkets, claiming they were trafficked to work under slavery-like conditions in a Thai seafood factory that exports to the US. The civil lawsuit, filed in June in a California federal court, accuses the US and Thai firms of knowingly profiting from the villagers’ […]
The Unlikely Romantic: How Kim Jong-il Introduced Love To North Korean Cinema
North Korea’s founding father, Kim Il-sung, was a tyrant who banned market activity, religion and all declarations of love in films, books or music. The only permissible public expressions of affection were to the leader and the revolution. Touching the hand of the opposite sex was considered indecent, while kissing the red banner was normal. […]
Michael Phelps Taught A Lesson For Once – By Singapore’s Joseph Schooling
Michael Phelps’ story finished with a twist, as the best ones always do. He lost the last solo race of his career, the 100m butterfly final, to Joseph Schooling, a 21-year-old from Singapore. Phelps wasn’t too cut up about it. He has 22 gold medals, but this was Schooling’s, and Singapore’s, very first. Phelps felt […]
Thailand Referendum Gets Under Way As Military Seeks To Cement Power
Thailand votes on Sunday in a referendum on a new junta-backed constitution that would pave the way for a general election in 2017 but require future governments to rule on the military’s terms. The referendum is the first major popularity test for the junta led by Prayuth Chan-ocha, who as prime minister has suppressed political […]
Typhoon Nida: Cities On High Alert In China As Storm Makes Landfall
Typhoon Nida has swept across Southern China , with the city of Guangzhou issuing its first-ever red storm alert and Hong Kong braced for flooding and landslides. Those living in the storm’s projected path on the mainland were told by the the National Commission for Disaster Reduction to prepare three days’ worth of food and […]
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