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  • Myanmar migrants pay for passports they fear they can’t use

    Myanmar migrants pay for passports they fear they can’t use

    Passports issued to Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand now carry an unusual stamp: “For Thailand Only.” But the restriction may have no legal weight at international borders.

    Nov 26, 2025

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    HaRDstories, Delta News Agency
    HaRDstories
  • Karen community fighting corn and coal for clean air in northern Thailand

    Northern Thailand is trapped in a cycle of air pollution driven by maize cultivation for the animal feed industry, with field burning each year choking the region in hazardous haze.

    Nov 19, 2025

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    Gerald Flynn
    Gerald Flynn

  • Memories of Phnom Penh Crowd Crush Refuse to Fade for Some


  • Wave of Cambodian casinos suspended after Prince sanctions

  • Red Shirt protester acquitted in all cases related to 2014 protests after a year in detention

    Red Shirt protester acquitted in all cases related to 2014 protests after a year in detention

    Oct 31, 2025

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    Prachatai
    Prachatai
  • Indonesian island’s traditional residents face relocation for ‘sustainable’ project

    Indonesian island’s traditional residents face relocation for ‘sustainable’ project

    Oct 31, 2025

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    Mohammad Yunus
    Mohammad Yunus

Featured

  • Border-fuelled politics disrupts families’, businesses’ futures

    Border-fuelled politics disrupts families’, businesses’ futures

    Oct 15, 2025

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    Meng Kroypunlok, Anna Lawattanatrakul
    Meng Kroypunlok
  • Cambodians crowd Chouk Chey village after civilian confrontation with Thai troops

    Cambodians crowd Chouk Chey village after civilian confrontation with Thai troops

    Aug 27, 2025

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    Ly Lin, Danielle Keeton-Olsen
    Ly Lin

Recent

  • Anguish for residents as Thailand’s most polluting coal plant gets new lease of life

    Oct 22, 2025

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    Gerald Flynn
    Gerald Flynn

  • Prachatai reporter, photojournalist indicted as principals for damaging a historic site

    Oct 22, 2025

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    Prachatai
    Prachatai

  • US Indicts Cambodia’s Prince Group Chairman, Sanctions Associates for Sweeping Scam Network

    Oct 15, 2025

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    Danielle Keeton-Olsen
    Danielle Keeton-Olsen

  • Border-fuelled politics disrupts families’, businesses’ futures

    Oct 15, 2025

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    Meng Kroypunlok, Anna Lawattanatrakul
    Meng Kroypunlok

  • Shrinking Mekong megafish underlines risks to the river, study finds

    Oct 1, 2025

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    Anton L. Delgado
    Anton L. Delgado

  • Two activists sentenced to prison for royal defamation over APEC 2022 protest statement

    Oct 1, 2025

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    Prachatai
    Prachatai

  • Cambodia’s new airport slowly breaks a rural community

    Sep 24, 2025

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    Phon Sothyroth
    Phon Sothyroth

  • Deaf people in crisis during three-month sign language center blackout

    Sep 18, 2025

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    Prachatai
    Prachatai

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