- 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
- FAKE NEWS
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.
- by Ken G Weber
- 5 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
- Minority Rights
- by HaRDstories and Indigenous Media Network
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- 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
- Mae La
Since international funding was sharply reduced a year ago, Mae La, the largest refugee camp on the Thai-Myanmar border, has been struggling to hold together.
- by HaRDstories and Delta News Agency
- 3 min read
- EXPLAINER
- Cambodian migrants
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
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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
Thailand’s longest-running terrorism case is finally reaching a verdict. But after ten years of delays, human rights groups say the trial has exposed “systemic deficiencies” in the Thai criminal justice system.
- by HaRDstories
- 3 min read
