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Eating wild – The Edge Review

9 April 2015

KAITEHU - “Two hours walk, it grows there,” Bendita Ramos said, pointing back over her shoulder and beyond her pink-painted 2 room house toward mist-shrouded hills behind. She was talking…

Aid, Relief, Disasters Asia Sentinel Business & Economics Cambodia Legal & Rights Reporting from Cambodia RTÉ

Castles in the Cambodian sand – Asia Sentinel/RTÉ World Report

26 November 2012

SEKSAK, BATTAMBANG -- On the back 7 to 10 percent growth over much of the last decade, Cambodia's government insists it is trying to build what it calls a sustainable…

Asia Sentinel Business & Economics Laos Reporting from Laos Reporting from Southeast Asia

Landlocked Laos has big plans – Asia Sentinel

14 November 2012

LUANG PRABANG -- Although Laos will soon to join the World Trade Organization, in economic terms it remains very much Southeast Asia's forgotten country, a landlocked backpacker magnet of unexploded…

Asia Sentinel Reporting from Thailand Thailand

Some breathing room for Thailand – Asia Sentinel

15 July 2012

BANGKOK -- Thailand’s political temperature has cooled somewhat after the country's Constitutional Court declined Friday to outlaw another yet surrogate political party for fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, in…

Asia Sentinel Burma Business & Economics Environment, Energy & Resources, Food The Irrawaddy

Commodity prices, cronyism threaten Burma’s economy: UN – The Irrawaddy/Asia Sentinel

10 May 2012

BANGKOK -- The United Nations believes that Burma’s economic prospects could be undermined by volatile commodity prices, as the country's reliance on the the ups and downs of oil and…

Asia Sentinel East Timor Politics & Government

Change and no change in Timor-Leste – Asia Sentinel

19 April 2012

BANGKOK -- When incumbent Jose Ramos-Horta lost the March first round of Timor-Leste's presidential election, some saw it as the end of an era for Timorese politics that began with…

Asia Sentinel Culture & Religion Legal & Rights On Media Reporting from Thailand Thailand

Thailand’s lèse-majesté taboo leading to witch-hunt – Asia Sentinel

7 December 2011

BANGKOK -- Thailand's growing curbs on freedom of speech have seen a grandfather sentenced to twenty years in jail for insulting the country's monarchy, while a U.S citizen awaits a…

Aid, Relief, Disasters Asia Sentinel Business & Economics Reporting from Vietnam RTÉ Vietnam

For farmers and factory workers, rising prices offset gains from Vietnam’s growing economy – Asia Sentinel/RTÉ World Report

2 December 2011

HO CHI MINH CITY -- With average per capital annual incomes of just over US$1,000, Vietnam is officially a lower-middle income country. In Hanoi, the seat of government and commercial…

Asia Sentinel Culture & Religion Legal & Rights Reporting from Vietnam Vietnam

Land activists face prison in Vietnam – Asia Sentinel

28 May 2011

HO CHI MINH CITY -- Late on a Tuesday evening, sitting four floors up in a Ho Chi Minh City cafe overlooking the city’s landmark opera house, a worried man…

Asia Sentinel Cambodia Culture & Religion Reporting from Cambodia

Trying times in Cambodia – Asia Sentinel

21 April 2011

http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3140&Itemid=170 Hints of a diplomatic tussle behind Cambodia’s troubled tribunal find their way to the country’s best-known Killing Field, which with better management would be a must-see for any visitor.…

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