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CHIANG RAI – At Wat Kreung Tai Wittaya, a Buddhist temple in Chiang Khong, Thailand, transgender teens are being taught to be “more manly.” “We cannot...
. . 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...
. . CHIANG RAI – Every morning in Mae Chan, a convoy of orange-robed Buddhist monks and novices riding on horseback leave their mountain-top temple in...
. . BANGKOK – With the dust settling a week after Gen. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha handpicked parliament unexpectedly binned the draft constitution that had been...
. . NAKHON PATHOM – On a rural road just after daybreak, villagers young and old kneel reverently before a single file of ochre-robed women, filling...
. . BANGKOK – With his pressed, white shirt and slicked-back hair, the young Thai man comes across as an earnest, trustworthy salesman. The product is...
. . PHUKET – A Phuket court has cleared Australian Alan Morison and Thai national Chutima Sidasathian two journalists of defaming the Thai navy and other...
. . PHNOM PENH – After listening to diners at the table next to hers speculate about how her father had found “such a young prostitute,”...
. . CHIANG RAI – Scientists say the Southeast Asia’s rapid development is driving deforestation in the vital Mekong Subregion, and threatening scores of species in...
. . RANGOON – There were few perks to the xenophobia that permeated Myanmar’s totalitarian junta for decades. But there was at least one: It kept...