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LONGFORM/FEATURES
Nyah Mway: The boy who will forever be 13 - Radio Free Asia
Utica police shooting of teenaged Karen refugee brings new trauma to community haunted by war.
Terror in Rohingya refugee camp as boys kidnapped to fight in Myanmar - RFA
Families speak of hiding sons to prevent them from becoming cannon fodder.
Silent struggles plague Cambodian refugees in Bangkok - Radio Free Asia
A new government in Thailand offers little change for asylum seekers.
How Microloans Betrayed Cambodians - New York Review of Books/The Dial
Originally pitched as a way to lift the rural poor out of poverty, microfinance is driving many borrowers deeper into debt.
China Is Choking Off Asia’s Most Important River - Foreign Policy
Upstream dams are destroying the Mekong Basin.
A world without men? - PRX/The World
When men go abroad to work, women in Nepal take the lead at home.
Meet the Syrian Man Stranded at the Kuala Lumpur Airport for 91 Days and Counting - Pacific Standard
Letter From Kathmandu, Nepal: The Omnipresence of Dust - Pacific Standard
A Thai Monk Is Using Social Media to Preach Violence Against Muslims - Newsweek
Cambodian Orphans Yearn for Answers 40 Years After Fleeing the Khmer Rouge - Time
EXPLAINERS/ANALYSIS
EXPLAINED: What are scam parks? - Radio Free Asia
Across Southeast Asia, criminals have found there is big money to be made in human trafficking and bilking victims out of their savings.
In Myanmar, a Young Democracy Comes to an Abrupt End - American Prospect
A coup foretold and what comes next.
At a Cambodian Lake, a Climate Crisis Unfolds - New York Times
A trifecta of climate change, hydropower dams and illegal fishing are threatening the Tonle Sap, and the people who rely on its fish.
Rule by law in Southeast Asia - IBA Global Insight
Authoritarian governments are gaining strength not through iron fists, but through the trappings of democratic institutions.
INTERVIEWS/Q&A
‘Beijing’s Global Media Offensive’ A Q&A with Joshua Kurlantzick - ChinaFile
Reinvention: Photographer Xyza Cruz Bacani - Mekong Review
Where It All Began: Writer Amitav Ghosh - Mekong Review
Fearless: Activist Ei Thinzar Maung - Mekong Review,
Press Forward: Interview journalist Anup Kaphle - Mekong Review,
INTERVIEWS/PODCASTS
Southeast Asia’s scam center crackdown conundrum | RFA Insider #27