Time for Burma’s exiles to go home? – The Diplomat
http://the-diplomat.com/2012/01/19/time-for-burma-exiles-to-go-home/ Some await more reforms and a government role for Aung San Suu Kyi, as Burma’s foreign-based media eye...
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Thailand floods: Central Bangkok spared for now – The Diplomat/RTÉ World Report
http://the-diplomat.com/2011/10/30/central-bangkok-spared-for-now/ radio report here – http://www.rte.ie/news/av/2011/1030/worldreport.html#&autoplay=true BANGKOK – “We sat on a wall outside, and the army truck picked us...
Cambodia’s NGO blues – The Diplomat
PHNOM PENH – ‘This isn’t right at all’, says Mr Ponlok, owner of a waterfront cafe at Boeung Kok lake in Phnom Penh. ‘People are being forced out and the compensation is way too small’. Lakeside residents are being driven from their homes as developers try to fill the landmark lake in Cambodia’s capital with earth and sand, prior to turning it into a residential and shopping complex. In deal signed between Shukaku Inc. and the Cambodian Government, a 99-year lease to the 103-hectare lake site was granted to the developers, a location that sits under the noses of the nearby British and French embassies.
Pakistan floods: “We’ve been set back 30 years” – The Diplomat
GARHI KHUDA BAKSH — Outside Garhi Khuda Baksh in Sindh Province, men, women and children lie under upturned beds which have been propped up at an angle with sticks or broken-off tree branches. Those I spoke with understand clearly what the disaster that has befallen their country means. “We have been set back thirty years,” said Fatima, a mother of seven ,and one of twelve people seeking shade under a rough-and-ready shelter made from plastic sheeting and bamboo, loosely tied-down with rope and a peg on two corners, running diagonally from top-right to bottom-left.