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Tourism, activities enhance exchanges between Chinese, Vietnamese border residents
4 months ago

Tourism, activities enhance exchanges between Chinese, Vietnamese border residents

China Daily  

The border cities of Pingxiang and Dongxing in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region are experiencing a bustling tourism season this summer. Vo Thi Thanh Tam, a Vietnamese resident of Mong Cai who works at a store in Dongxing, described her daily routine: "It's just a 15-minute journey from my home to the border port, and I can quickly complete …

Vietnam China Chinese Vietnamese Exchange Activities Mong Cai Border Residents
Tourism, activities enhance exchanges between Chinese, Vietnamese border residents
4 months ago

Tourism, activities enhance exchanges between Chinese, Vietnamese border residents

China Daily  

The border cities of Pingxiang and Dongxing in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region are experiencing a bustling tourism season this summer. Vo Thi Thanh Tam, a Vietnamese resident of Mong Cai who works at a store in Dongxing, described her daily routine: "It's just a 15-minute journey from my home to the border port, and I can quickly complete …

Vietnam China Border Chinese Vietnamese Cultural Exchanges Exchange Activities
Photos shine a light on Taiwan’s ‘betel nut beauties’
54 years, 11 months ago

Photos shine a light on Taiwan’s ‘betel nut beauties’

CNN  

CNN — Mong Shuan was just 16 when she turned to an unconventional source of income: selling betel nuts from a little stall in northern Taiwan. Vendors like Mong, who left the job in February, are known locally as “betel nut beauties.” The phenomenon emerged in the late 1960s, when the Shuangdong Betel Nut Stand, a stall in rural central …

Women Taiwan Taipei Stall Nuts Mong Nut
The ice pipeline: Inside Australia's crystal meth supply chain
8 months ago

The ice pipeline: Inside Australia's crystal meth supply chain

ABC  

Players inside Australia's crystal meth supply chain break their code of silence. He's a crystal meth — or "ice" — cook and dealer. "They will form these networks to produce a giant load of meth, and if it's making money, they'll do it again," he says. "They'll usually sit it next to a stream — it takes a lot of …

China Australia Supply Ice Production Myanmar Thailand
Filipinos in Hong Kong were promised a new life in Poland. It never came
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Filipinos in Hong Kong were promised a new life in Poland. It never came

Al Jazeera  

This is the second article in a two-part series about the alleged exploitation of Filipino migrant workers. “I don’t know where my 10,000 Hong Kong dollars went,” she told Al Jazeera, referring to the first cash instalment she made in May 2022. Maria said she was told her full application would cost 30,000 Hong Kong dollars – more than six …

Europe Poland Recruitment Hong Kong Workers Domestic Migrant Workers
‘Fighting is all around’: Myanmar faces deepening humanitarian crisis
1 year ago

‘Fighting is all around’: Myanmar faces deepening humanitarian crisis

Al Jazeera  

In late October, Sai Lam had an uneasy feeling. “ I’m still safe enough that I can help people facing danger.” No refuge Even before the start of Operation 1027, Myanmar was experiencing unprecedented levels of armed conflict and a humanitarian crisis. In March this year, its human rights office found that the military’s use of four cuts was driving …

India Support China Military Local Border Fighting
Analysis: China’s Xi Jinping brought Hong Kong to heel. Now he’s back in a city transformed
2 years, 5 months ago

Analysis: China’s Xi Jinping brought Hong Kong to heel. Now he’s back in a city transformed

CNN  

Hong Kong CNN — Chinese flags flutter above streets and red celebratory banners line the harbor front, as a beaming crowd of masked officials and school children wave and chant in unison inside Hong Kong’s high-speed rail terminus, welcoming the arrival of Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Anthony Kwan/Getty Images Protesters use a rope to lower themselves from a pedestrian bridge …

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A new Hun rises: Cambodia’s ruling party meets to plot its future
3 years ago

A new Hun rises: Cambodia’s ruling party meets to plot its future

Al Jazeera  

Cambodia’s governing party is set to select a successor to Prime Minister Hun Sen at an extraordinary congress on Friday, with the outcome all but determined after the 69-year-old leader endorsed his eldest son for the post. Hun Sen, who has ruled Cambodia for almost 37 years, announced on December 2 that “Hun Manet is one of the candidates for …

Prime Political Party Minister Sen Hun His Son
Fighting the Evil: Cambodian Farmers Deploy Age-old 'Ting Mong' Scarecrows to Ward off Virus
4 years, 2 months ago

Fighting the Evil: Cambodian Farmers Deploy Age-old 'Ting Mong' Scarecrows to Ward off Virus

News 18  

Armed with a stick, a floral-shirted scarecrow with a plastic pot for a head stands guard in front of a rural Cambodian home- a sentry erected by superstitious farmers to ward off the coronavirus. Known as “Ting Mong” in Khmer, the creatively rendered scarecrows often pop up in villages that have been hard-hit by infectious diseases like dengue or water-borne …

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