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As dams rise along Laos’ rivers, temples disappear

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.
  • 4 min read
Khen Offering
  • FEATURE

Cambodia’s largest casino won the strike. The workers refuse to lose

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.
  • 6 min read
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How fake news pages work, and how to spot one

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.
  • 5 min read
Jirachaya Hongkaew/HaRDstories
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Thailand pauses deep-sea port plan after fisherfolk sit-in

Thailand has withdrawn a bill that would have turned four southern provinces into a special economic zone, after mounting protests over a deep-sea port that threatened local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.
  • 3 min read
Luke Duggleby/HaRDstories
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How Thailand’s Emergency Law is reaching into the lives of women

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.
  • 4 min read
Arifeen Paehohele/HaRDstories
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A decade after the Erawan Shrine bombing, two death sentences

A Bangkok court has sentenced two Uyghur men to death for the 2015 Erawan Shrine bombing, which killed 20 people. The ruling closes one of Thailand's longest-running trials, but it has not settled the questions surrounding it.
  • 2 min read
Wissarut Werasopon/HaRDstories
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What it costs to love an environmental activist in Cambodia

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.
  • 9 min read
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Myanmar’s refugees found safety in Thailand. Educating their children is proving far harder

Since Myanmar’s coup, Thailand has been absorbing not just refugees but an entire generation of students. How to give them a real education, in a language they are only beginning to learn, is still an open question.
  • 4 min read
Jittrapon Kaicome/HaRDstories
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The Kui are stitching together an identity torn apart by borders

For generations, the Kui people of Southeast Asia watched their language fade, their ceremonies disappear, and their communities drift apart – separated by borders they had no say in drawing. Something is shifting.
  • 11 min read
Peerapon Boonyakiat/HaRDstories
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