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5 min read 2023-01-18 09:16:48

Hmong women use TikTok to reveal marriage exploitation in Thailand

Women share stories of slavery and human traffickingOriginally published on Global VoicesTraditional games at Hmong New Year celebration. Photo from

3 min read 2023-01-10 15:26:24

In Lao PDR, digital financial services are at a very nascent stage of development, but recent partnerships are seeking to change that by introducing

4 min read 2022-12-21 12:30:11

Singapore national football team has announced their 23-man squad for their 2022 AFF Mitsubishi Electric Cup, and they will be without two key

5 min read 2022-12-16 04:56:14

Via The Third Pole, a report on the controversial Phou Ngoy dam in Laos: The fishing village of Khoen Khen in southern Laos is a quiet place, nestled

7 min read 2022-12-09 09:30:00

Growing up under Myanmar’s brutal regime, Maung Sun never imagined that he’d one day realise his dreams of becoming a filmmaker. Despite the

3 min read 2022-12-07 16:35:08

The region’s biggest football tournament, the AFF Mitsubishi Electric Cup is back this year and the Singapore Democratic Party’s vice-chairman

2 min read 2022-11-08 16:30:09

Although the poverty rate in Laos more than halved between 1993 and 2018, nearly one in five households still experience poverty today. Not

7 min read 2022-10-19 09:30:00

Houa* sat on the doorstep of her bamboo house helping her grandmother pluck a chicken. She is not even ten years old, but she is learning how to

3 min read 2022-10-10 13:06:26

Victims of job scam syndicates are actually allowed to be returned to their loved ones, but only if a certain amount is paid to buy their

2 min read 2022-10-07 12:40:48

One can only imagine the feelings of the job scam victims who are trapped overseas – the longing to return home and reunite with their

2 min read 2022-10-06 17:01:34

Job scam syndicates are getting more and more common, especially those tricking Malaysians into thinking they’re taking up work overseas. Many of

3 min read 2022-10-04 16:55:35

So, we all know about how a cosmetics agent was kidnapped from her home in Kelantan, and was later rescued by PDRM and brought back to Malaysia from

2 min read 2022-09-28 16:54:56

The job scam abroad saga continues, and the survivors who made it back alive had a lot to tell. Two of the Malaysian victims were granted an off day,

2 min read 2022-09-28 10:10:32

The job scam in Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia continues to claim its victims, and the plot thickens. Recently, the photos of alleged middlemen for

2 min read 2022-09-21 15:23:05

The job scam victims abroad are suffering at the time of writing, and the call for the government to intervene in this matter was finally made by the