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Factory of Miracles
FACTORY OF MIRACLES The celebrated hospital at the heart of our Al Jazeera documentary Dhaka’s Cholera Wars By Orlando de Guzman & Andrew Marshall If you don’t like hospitals—and who apart from...
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Suu Kyi is in the House
The worst-kept secret in Naypyitaw, the eerily under-populated capital of Myanmar, is who lives in a new bungalow in its dusty northern suburbs. The house looks unwelcoming, and perhaps it’s meant to....
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Jailing dissidents is not only a Burmese tradition
Ever heard of Tun Aung? I hadn’t until researching my recent Reuters special report on Myanmar’s year of reforms. Human rights activists claim his plight is proof that the country’s reformist...
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Murder and martyrdom in Thailand’s forgotten jihad
Murderer or martyr? This is a photo of Mahrosu Jantarawadee, 31, a Malay-Muslim insurgent who last month led a raid on a remote military base in Thailand’s war-torn southern provinces. The marines...
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Burma through bilious eyes
In The Fight, his classic account of the “Rumble in the Jungle”, Norman Mailer arrives in Zaire to learn that George Foreman has cut his eye during training and the showdown with Muhammad Ali is...
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In Yingluck Shinawatra’s unfazed wake
An anti-Yingluck protester and her placards Yingluck Shinawatra is a soft-spoken, guarded, exasperating interviewee. Her answers, at least in English, manage to sound both rehearsed and rambling. But...
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At Thailand’s mosque for crippled Rohingya
A rescued Rohingya at the Thai mosque We found Akram sprawled helplessly on a makeshift wooden bed in a village mosque in southern Thailand. His teenage body was malnourished and covered with fly-blown...
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Welcome to Northern Rakhine State – but watch out for ISIS
Rohingya boys at a Maungdaw school Northern Rakhine State in western Burma has been off-limits to foreign journalists for decades. Since 2011, when President Thein Sein and his avowedly reformist...
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Love, fear and loneliness: the burden of Rohingya mothers
Kids in a Rohingya camp My three-year-old daughter runs unsteadily down a steep road covered in wet leaves. “Careful,” I tell her. She doesn’t fall, but soon she is far ahead of me. I glance back to...
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Thailand rocks. And sucks. At the same time!
Thailand is rightly proud of its frequent appearances on lists of the world’s best islands, cities, restaurants and spas. These attest to the country’s enduring appeal to millions of foreign tourists,...
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