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Malaria Adds to Myanmar’s Woes
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Political reforms unfolding in Myanmar (or Burma) are giving health workers a chance to address a resurgence of drug-resistant falciparum malaria in the war-torn ethnic minority enclaves along the country’s eastern borders.
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Vietnam Clamps Down on Bloggers
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - A pioneer of citizens’ journalism in Vietnam is risking 20 years in jail for defending Internet freedom and exposing the draconian censorship laws in this communist party-ruled country.
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Sea Level Rise Threatens Mekong Rice
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - With Vietnam’s fertile Mekong delta threatened by rising sea levels and salt water ingress, the country’s future as a major rice exporter depends critically on research underway in the Philippines.
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Myanmar Turns ASEAN's Democracy Beacon
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Long Southeast Asia’s black sheep, Myanmar is enjoying an image change following its landmark Apr. 1 by-elections. Tongues are now wagging about the region’s new beacon of hope for democratic change.
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Will Climate Refugees Get Promised Aid?
Analysis by Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - With extreme weather pounding countries across a wide arc in the Asia-Pacific region, questions hover over entitlements for millions of people displaced by climate change, pledged under the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and other sources.
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Suu Kyi as Lawmaker
Analysis by Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Following her historic victory in Sunday’s by-elections Aung San Suu Kyi takes on a new role as opposition lawmaker, after a 22-year existence as Myanmar’s most famous political prisoner.
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Myanmar 'Reforms' Elude Kachin Refugees
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - For thousands of ethnic Kachins who fled fighting between government troops and rebels and survived a bitter winter in the refugee camps that dot northern Myanmar (or Burma), another test of survival looms – gale force winds.
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Myanmar Ethnic Groups Resist Forced Labour
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - In a move expected to deepen political reform, the quasi-civilian government in Myanmar (also known as Burma) is permitting the distribution of leaflets that will help thousands of people in the country’s ethnic enclaves learn to resist forced labour.
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‘Returning to Burma is OK, Not for Journalism’
Marwaan Macan-Markar interviews AUNG ZAW, editor, ‘The Irrawaddy’, Burma’s exiled media
CHIANG MAI, Thailand - When he returned home after over two decades as a political exile, Aung Zaw, a prominent figure among Burma’s exiled media community, was served a slice of truth by the country’s notorious censorship board.
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Thai Province Shows the Green Way
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BAAN LOONG SUMLAN, Thailand - As fingers of morning light slip through the mango and banana orchards of his village, Suchin Utanarat heads out in a boat to net a fresh catch from the nearby canals teeming with shrimp.
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'Malaysians Must Vote Out Corruption, Racism'
Marwaan Macan-Markar interviews ANWAR IBRAHIM, Malaysian opposition leader
BANGKOK - Malaysia’s charismatic opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is tapping the spirit of the Arab Spring to end the 55-year unbroken rule of the United Malay National Organsiation (UMNO) and its allies in the Southeast Asian nation.
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‘World Bank in Tiger Territory – No Greenwashing’
Marwaan Macan-Markar interviews KESHAV VARMA, director, Global Tiger Initiative
BANGKOK - When World Bank president Robert Zoellick steps down in June, the tiger will lose an ally who worked to prevent the decimation of Asia’s iconic animal by a voracious demand for its bones and parts in newly affluent China.
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Philippines Seeking U.S. Help Against China’s Bullying
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - The government of Philippines President Benigno Aquino may be wading into choppy diplomatic waters by turning to the United States to counter China’s aggressiveness in the South China Sea, one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes.
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