Features

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

Schooling the needy
At the Ban Pa Deng School on the Thai-Burmese border in Phetchaburi province, trying to feed hundreds of hungry children remains its biggest hurdle

Published: 5/01/2010 at 12:00 AM
Bangkok Post Newspaper section: Outlook

THE REDD CONTROVERSY

Published: 3/01/2010 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: Spectrum

31 December 2009

UN experts urge Thailand to stop immediately the expulsions of Hmong

For Choo, it's all work and no play

The people of Burma are used to suffering. Burma has the worst health record in Southeast Asia. Yet the regime is not without money. It siphons billions of dollars earned from natural energy resources into offshore accounts while its citizens are forced to seek health care in neighbouring countries

Wearing out his welcome
A former Chinese spy who sought shelter in Bangkok faces the prospect of deportation

Published: 6/12/2009 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: Spectrum

Li Yuzhou's children think their father is in jail, training to be a police officer.

Nationality Verification of Burmese Migrants: A Meaningful Debate

By Andy Hall
The Nation Published on October 30, 2009

Migrants in a bind

Published: 16/10/2009 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: News

There is no question about it. Thailand needs to solve the problem of underground migrant workers, now estimated at 3 million strong. The challenge is how to do it right.

Darunee Paisanpanichkul, Stateless Watch for Research and Development Institute of Thailand

POST BAG

Fly high, young man

Published: 21/09/2009 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: News

Twelve-year-old Mong Thongdee showed his nationalistic red, white and true blue colours as a justly proud representative of the Land of the Free in which he was born and bred.

Compassion cuts through the racism

Writer: Sanitsuda Ekachai
Published: 17/09/2009 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: News

Literacy has no nationality
The education of stateless children along the Thai-Burmese border remains a problem in search of a solution

Writer: Story and photos by PURICH TRIVITAYAKHUN - TAK
Published: 15/09/2009 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: Learningpost

I read with interest the article ''Come Fly With Me,'' BP, Sept 6. This is not the first time that the Bangkok Post has given a boost to the cause of stateless and virtually stateless people in Thailand. Sadly, neither is it the first time that the Interior Ministry and related agencies have trampled on the rights of stateless people.

We're not a spent force, says Karen military leader
It may be spread thinly, but the KNLA soldiers on

Writer: By Phil Thornton
Published: 6/09/2009 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: Spectrum

Bureaucracy foils high-flier

Published: 3/09/2009 at 12:00 AM
Bangkok Post Newspaper

Flights to freedom

Resettlement offers hope for the tens of thousands of refugees along the Thai-Burma border

Writer: Erika Fry
Published: 30/08/2009 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: Spectrum