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...Shan orphans are among the most vulnerable victims of policies hatched in faraway Bangkok and Rangoon. The Shan are the largest of Burma's eight main ethnic minorities, which form a third of the country's 43 million population. Many of the groups are fighting for independence from the rule of the military junta. In recent months, the Burmese army and its proxies have stepped up efforts against ethnic insurgents such as the Shan and the Karen, driving thousands of refugees into Thailand. There, they receive cold comfort. The Thai government does not grant official refugee status to the Shan...
...Bangkok has its attractions, but if you're a frequent visitor to Thailand and have had your fill of the capital's shopping and traffic, chances are you'll be arriving at Don Muang airport with but one desire: to get to the coast as fast as possible. There's good news if your chosen resort is Hua Hin. After a three-year hiatus, commercial flights have resumed between Bangkok and the seaside sanctuary most favored by Thailand's royal family. With the train taking more than four hours-and the tiresome 200-km road trip lasting almost as long...
...World Cup finals-the first time women were allowed at a professional soccer match in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution 0 Number of fans at Japan's World Cup finals-qualifying 2-0 defeat of North Korea; the match was played in a closed stadium in Bangkok following riots during March's North Korea-Iran game in Pyongyang
...CLOSED. THAM KRABOK CAMP, home to ethnic Hmong refugees from neighboring Laos since 1992; following an agreement by the U.S. to accept most of its remaining 5,000 residents under a refugee resettlement deal; in Tham Krabok, Thailand. Located 130 km north of Bangkok on the grounds of a Buddhist temple, the camp once housed as many as 20,000 people. Its closure marks the end of a nearly three-decade-long project to resettle more than 300,000 Hmong, who were enlisted by the U.S. to fight communists in Laos and were consequently persecuted by the ruling regime...
...country, I headed back to Saigon to try to bring out Nga's parents, five sisters and her brother. We had arranged visas to the U.S. for them from Rio, but they needed help getting on an evacuation flight. On April 29, I boarded an Air Vietnam 707 in Bangkok bound for Saigon. But Tan Son Nhut airport had fallen overnight, and after circling over the Mekong Delta, the flight was diverted to Hong Kong. For me, Vietnam would have to wait. For Nga's family, it was six dreary years of privation before they were allowed to leave...