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...Valley, where a small sign beckons: HIP HOTEL AND RESTAURANT. The next is a gate in an isolated grassy lay-by, where soft jazz pipes from the trees. "We wanted to try a new concept," says co-owner Siriphen Siwanarak, who left a design job in Bangkok to build the place with her husband. "When guests arrive they see this gate first, then follow the stream, and suddenly they're open to the panorama and the mountain view, like a surprise...
...like water in my hand...nobody can come and help you. Nobody can protect you and live peacefully in this country.” Her speech was followed by presentations from Mark A. McDowell, a Canadian diplomat who had covered Burma while stationed in Bangkok for the last four years, and Tyler R. Giannini, the clinical director of the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School. McDowell, who has made an estimated 25 visits to the country, said the western perception of Myanmar is not entirely correct. “There’s a picture drawn of Burma...
...some formerly white-collar workers could no longer afford to take the bus to the office. Buddhist clerics are experiencing privation, too, since their lives depend on offerings from the people. "The monks are an economic barometer in Burma," says Sunai Phasuk, a consultant for Human Rights Watch in Bangkok. "They feel the deterioration of the economy and the hardship of their followers...
...vendors, but in upgrading their operations. "Instead of trying to remove street food stalls," she says, "the MCD should provide them facilities so they could improve their standards of hygiene. The only reason these vendors operate in less hygienic conditions than those on the streets of Singapore or Bangkok is that the MCD does not give them proper facilities like clean water supply, electricity and proper drainage...
...park its ballooning foreign-exchange reserves, the riverfront capitals of Phnom Penh and Vientiane now gleam with Chinese-built roads, buildings and other infrastructure. The torrent of investment will likely grow even greater next year when Chinese construction workers finish building a 1,100-mile (1,800-km) Yunnan-Bangkok highway that parallels a section of the Mekong. "Chinese are natural businessmen," says Liu Jingchun, a Chinese boat captain who transports goods between Yunnan and northern Thailand. "For so many years, we shut ourselves off from doing business. Now that we're allowed to trade again, it's like...