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Search results for "thailand" ...
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Rohingya: A Forgotten People
This investigation reveals abuse committed by the Thai Military against Rohingya minorities fleeing from Burma. The Thai Military would intercept Rohingya boats with refugees aboard and tow them out to the middle of the sea and leave them without adequate supplies. Being without food and water many of the Rohingya refugees died, but the numbers are unclear as to how many people actually died.
Tags: Thailand; Myanmar; ocean; islands; human rights; Prime Minister; Abhisit Vejjajiva; boatpeople; Muslim; safety; persecution
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Jenkins Photo Proof of Kidnapping?
The web report address the practice in North Korea of kidnapping citizens of other Asian nations and holding them against their will in North Korea. The story focuses on the case of a Thai woman.
Tags: North Korea; espionage; Thailand; Anocha Panjoy; Kidnapping; Robert Jenkins
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Parental Discretion: China Tries Easing Once-Brutal Approach to Family Planning
Wall Street Journal reports on the use of family planning methods in China. Since 1980 China has 'encouraged' families to one child, "but left the implementation up to local officials-who often abused their power by carrying out directives with brute force." But after the country paid for Ms. Liu to observe family-planning tactics in Thailand in 1996- change has been occurring in China. Ms. Liu and her colleagues have changed family-planning offices where male officials simply sat behind desks to "wide-open service stations that encourage drop-in visitors". They have thrown out "dense, text-heavy pamphlets on family-planning policy" and replaced them with cartoon characters explaining subjects easier to women with little education. In addition, the article reports on the importance of more than one child to Chinese farmers. While there are still heavy fines for having more than one child, farming communities like Yicheng "have been permitted since 1985 to have two children as long as they space them five years apart." The article continues to report on China's new family-planning reforms.
Tags: family planning; birth control; condom; contraceptives; one-child policy; abortion; children
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The Shame of Medical Research
American medical researchers increasingly are conducting AIDS research in third world countries and arguably violating international standards of experimentation such as the Helsinki Declaration. Countries in which clinical trials are now conducted are often too poor to pay for the medicines that are successfully tested, and the people recruited for those trials very seldom get the medical care participants in trials in prosperous countries can expect.
Tags: AIDS; AZT; 076; thailand; vaccine; medical research; helsinki declaration
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Bitter Harvest
Ms. looks at the sex trade in Thailand where prostitution is a large part of the exonomy.
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Nightmare without end
Stephen Roye went to Thailand in pursuit of the story that he hoped would restore his journalism career. He posed as a courier carrying drugs back from Thailand. But he was caught, thrown in a squalid Bangkok prison, and sentenced to life.
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No title (id: 14025)
The story details unhealthy working conditions in Third World factories producing American toys, including Barbie dolls. Workers in Far Eastern countries are overworked, underpaid, and have no rights. Many are sick from the unhealthy environments, including exposure to lead poisoning and other chemicals, but they are too afraid to organize.
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Spin Magazine reports on how pimps in Thailand buy young girls from poor families, then rent them out as concubines; details how one man attempts to rescue one girl from child prostitution, 1993. # Vollmann Asia
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No title (id: 9568)
New Yorker profiles efforts by the U.S. government and tobacco companies, such as Philip Morris, successfully pressured Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and Thailand into breaking their domestic tobacco monopolies and allowing the sale of American cigarettes; reports that the next target of the tobacco companies is China, Sept. 13, 1993. # NY Sesser
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No title (id: 7388)
San Francisco Examiner reports a Green Beret unit stationed in Thailand created an illegal stockpile of millions of dollars' worth of ammunition and explosives, Aug. 12 - Sept. 23, 1990.
Tags: CA Bronstein Williams