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Mailee Osten-Tan
Mailee Osten-Tan
Bangkok’s street food vendors survive on razor-thin margins even in good times. A war they had no part in is pushing many of them into debt.
Thousands of Cambodian families were cleared from Angkor Archaeological Park and resettled in a government-built city. Years later, the market sits empty, the debt is mounting and many have already left.
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Kong Raksmey/HaRDstories
Thailand is counting on forests to help meet its climate goals by offsetting emissions it can’t yet cut. But it can take years to know if a newly planted forest survives. One flagship project shows what can go wrong first.
Peerapon Boonyakiat/HaRDstories
Peerapon Boonyakiat/HaRDstories
When NagaWorld dismissed 1,300 casino workers in 2021, it expected the dispute to end quickly. Five years later, hundreds of mostly female union members are still demanding reinstatement, union recognition and back pay.
Roun Ry/HaRDstories
Roun Ry/HaRDstories
During the Thailand-Cambodia conflict, fake pages fed millions of Thai users false evacuation orders and distorted death tolls, all to build an audience they could quietly cash out. We unpick how these networks work, and why spotting the fakes is only the start.
Jirachaya Hongkaew/HaRDstories
Jirachaya Hongkaew/HaRDstories
Five Mother Nature activists are serving sentences up to eight years in Cambodia’s prisons. Their wives, siblings, and children were not charged, but they are paying anyway.
Luke Duggleby/Redux
Luke Duggleby/Redux

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Luke Duggleby/Dialogue Earth/HaRDstories
Six years after a landmark pesticide ban, Thailand’s farming system is still built around chemical dependency. Campaigners say the country solved a scandal, not the system behind it.
Khen Offering
Khen Offering
Laos has positioned itself as Southeast Asia’s leading hydropower exporter. Along its rivers, the cost has been measured in demolished temples, submerged shrines and communities still searching for stable ground.
Luke Duggleby/HaRDstories
Luke Duggleby/HaRDstories
Thailand has withdrawn a bill that would have turned four southern provinces into a special economic zone, after mounting protests over a deep-sea port that threatened local fisherfolk and the tourist island of Koh Payam.
Arifeen Paehohele/HaRDstories
Arifeen Paehohele/HaRDstories
Thailand’s Emergency Decree gives security forces the power to detain suspects for up to thirty days without charge. Two women in the Deep South describe what happens when that power reaches into a family.

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