- Myanmar refugees
Thousands of refugees from Myanmar have taken legal jobs in Thailand since a landmark policy took effect. For some, it’s a lifeline. For others, adjusting has been harder than expected.
- by HaRDstories and Delta News Agency
- 6 min read
- US-Iran conflict
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.
- by Rebecca. L. Root
- 8 min read
- NagaWorld
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.
- by Phoung Vantha
- 6 min read
- Rights Suppression
- Deep South
- by HaRDstories and Wartani
- Rights Suppression
- Contested verdict
- by HaRDstories
- Minority Rights
- Right to education
- by HaRDstories and Delta News Agency
- Minority Rights
- A people’s revival
- by Nathaphob Sungkate
- Labour Rights
- Myanmar migrants
- by HaRDstories and Delta News Agency
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The Thailand-Cambodia border conflict cost Kui communities their harvests, deepened their debts, and left unexploded shells buried in their fields. Its quieter damage, to a decade of work reconnecting an indigenous people that modern borders had long divided, may take far longer to repair.
- by HaRDstories and Indigenous Media Network
- 3 min read
- FEATURE
- Border Communities
Cheap methamphetamine from Myanmar is flooding Thailand’s Lahu communities, where poverty and decades of neglect have left young people with few alternatives. But some are fighting back – with ancient rituals, a shoestring charity and, for the first time, the law on their side.
- by Nathaphob Sungkate
- 18 min read
- NEWS
- Myanmar Migrants
In Mae Sot, a Thai border town where Myanmar migrants have made their lives for decades, death has always arrived with consequences beyond grief. Over fourteen years, the migrants themselves have quietly built a way to face it together.
- by HaRDstories and Delta News Agency
- 3 min read
- NEWS
- Northern Thailand
For generations, a divorced Hmong woman lost not just her marriage but her place in her clan. A women’s network has been reviving an ancient ritual to give it back.
- by HaRDstories and Indigenous Media Network
- 4 min read
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Hundreds of thousands of Cambodians returned home during a border conflict with Thailand. Now crushing microfinance debt and scarce jobs are forcing them back.
- by Phoung Vantha
- 7 min read
Thailand’s anti-money laundering office has voted to seize about 418 million USD in assets from alleged scam networks linked to Cambodia. But hundreds of fraud victims who lost their savings may face a years-long wait to see if they’ll ever get their money back.
- by Nathaphob Sungkate
- 3 min read
Thailand’s facial recognition banking rules were meant to stop fraud. Instead, criminal syndicates now traffic people to Cambodia, hold them captive, and force them to scan their faces to authorise fraudulent transactions – then victims return home to face prosecution.
- by Nathaphob Sungkate
- 11 min read
Alemi Saechin spent ten years proving she was Thai before she could vote. Now she and other first-time ethnic minority voters across Thailand are discovering that gaining citizenship doesn’t mean gaining full democratic inclusion.
- by HaRDstories and Indigenous Media Network
- 4 min read
During Thailand’s border conflict with Cambodia, at least 50 fake Facebook pages spread disinformation to millions of people. The pages appear to be run from Cambodia. A HaRDstories investigation reveals the truth might be more complicated.
- by Nicha Wachpanich
- 9 min read
After their factory abruptly shut down in 2020, more than 200 garment workers took their case to Thai courts and won. Five years later, they’re still fighting over who should pay them.
- by HaRDstories and Delta News Agency
- 4 min read
