What is lost when a language dies?

Each of the many ethnic tongues in use throughout the nation represents the accumulated knowledge and wisdom of hundreds or thousands of years of human experience

Published: 22/08/2010 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: Spectrum

A tiny victory against ethnic prejudice

Published: 19/08/2010 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: News

For a country deeply mired in the myth of cultural homogeneity, the recent cabinet resolution on the indigenous Karen offers a glimmer of hope that the brick wall of ethnic prejudice is starting to crack.

How we bully our migrant workers

Published: 5/08/2010 at 12:00 AM
Bangkok Post Newspaper section: News

So we want migrant workers from Burma to be legal with passports and all, yet we still want them to submit to our old oppressive ways, is that it?

Thailand's New Migrant Labor Laws Spark Fear, Criticism

Doubts being raised over migrant rights

A new crackdown on immigrant workers is raising concerns among human rights agencies at home and abroad

Published: 4/07/2010 at 12:00 AM
Bangkok Post Newspaper section: Spectrum

A scourge on our land

Published: 22/06/2010 at 12:00 AM
Bangkok Post Newspaper section: News

HUMAN RIGHTS HEROINE

Siriwan Vongkietpaisan has dedicated her life to fighting for and giving a voice to the underprivileged who have been inhumanely treated

Published: 22/06/2010 at 12:00 AM
Bangkok Post Newspaper section: Outlook

Armed ethnic groups put junta's election in doubt

Plans by the military to hold elections and take control of border areas have been derailed

Published: 30/05/2010 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: Spectrum

Hospitals on the front lines
Medical facilities in border provinces shoulder a heavy cost in treating non-Thai patients. Help is on the way, but more is needed

Published: 2/05/2010 at 03:03 AM
Bangkok Post Newspaper section: Spectrum

Clinic in crisis
Dr Cynthia Maung has won 14 international awards for her humanitarian work at the Mae Tao Clinic on the Thai-Burma border. In 1989, its founding year, her clinic treated 2,000 patients - by 2010, that figure surged to a massive 140,000

Published: 9/05/2010 at 12:00 AM
Bangkok Post Newspaper section: Spectrum

The plight of migrant workers
Uncertain of their rights, many are being subjected to harassment and extortion by the police, even if they are legally employed

Published: 11/04/2010 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: Spectrum

Improving our human rights

Published: 1/03/2010 at 12:00 AM
Bangkok Post Newspaper section: News

Leave us alone

In spite of international outrage, the Burmese army continues to batter, kill and displace thousands of villagers in eastern Burma

Published: 28/02/2010 at 12:00 AM
Bangkok Post Newspaper section: Spectrum

A reform-minded government should end abuses against migrant workers

By BRAD ADAMS
SPECIAL TO THE NATION

Thailand: Migrant Workers Face Killings, Extortion, Labor Rights Abuses

February Deadline for Renewal of Work Permits Invites Exploitation

Emergency appeal to the Royal Thai Government not to forcibly repatriate Karen refugees back to heavily land-mined zone

Karen Women Organization

Thai-US relations are drifting apart

By Kavi Chongkittavorn
The Nation
Published on February 1, 2010

The looming prospect of massive deportations
Published: 14/01/2010 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: News

Even if the answer is "yes," the messy situation of underground migrant labour will not get much better. But if the answer is a dreaded "no," the mess will get messier.

Repatriation of the Hmong at Huay Nam Khao
Although the United States protested against the repatriation, Washington had earlier announced it would not resettle them in the US

Published: 6/01/2010 at 12:00 AM
Bangkok Post Newspaper section: News