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A warming world is our present-moment reality, as shown by a summer of blistering heat in Southeast Asia, including Thailand.

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Amid today’s dams, the Mekong’s Naga finds its home waters a challenge.

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The Mekong region’s lower-technology, rich-coloured environment of the past — versus today.

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Myanmar: Trying to playing the sustainability tune?

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LENSES: Sustainability
Artwork: Toch Thina

What will happen to Cambodia’s Tonle Sap, which is much more than a lake?

For Myanmar’s Children in Exile, School is a Lifeline

Going to school helps the growing numbers of Myanmar children in exile cope with life away from home, across the border in Thailand. Parents find relief from seeing their kids in more normal circumstances, amid the uncertain future they often face.

Beyond the Scorching Heat: Earth Overload, Human Suffering and a Reboot

The scorching Thai summer has the writer adopting ways to make the heat a tad gentler – and makes her notice how different communities, from security thinkers to scientists, singers to meditation teachers, share many similar insights about how to restore some balance in planetary life.

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Views and Points

Reflections on a Journalism Internship: Stuck at Home, but Broadening My Horizons

A journalism major shares how her and her colleagues’ internship allowed them to look beyond many of their worries about losing out on learning during COVID-19.

Burma Past and Present: Same and Different 

It has been 20 years since Myanmar’s intelligence agents detained the writer, who was a university student at the time. Yet far too little has really changed in Burma since then.

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Reflections on a Journalism Internship: Stuck at Home, but Broadening My Horizons

A journalism major shares how her and her colleagues’ internship allowed them to look beyond many of their worries about losing out on learning during COVID-19.

Two Years After the Coup: Myanmar Journalists Go Underground, But Soldier On

Doing news work in Myanmar comes with high risk to life and safety, in a profession with uncertain prospects for the future. Since 2021 the coup, the junta has been using legal persecution as a weapon against journalism and journalists.

Tools for Journalists

News Tool : Reporting on a Stressed Planet: 16 Concepts

31 October 2022 | Updated 23 December 2022 | REPORTING ASEAN Read/download the eBook here in English and here in Khmer! ‘Net-zero emissions’, ‘extreme weather events’, ‘noise pollution’ and ‘organic’ – these phrases have weaved their way into the news we consume and daily conversations we have. Our everyday language now reflects our concerns as […]

A Real-World Tool in Newspeak – ‘Gender on Our News Radar: A View from Southeast Asia’

If you haven’t yet noticed, the conversations around gender in news and public spaces have been changing – in ways that were hard to imagine even a few years ago. Drawing from news realities, this 64-page book explains how gender-informed storytelling is an investment in spotting and producing ing nuanced, engaging news reports.

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