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INTERNATIONAL

Burmese refugees' Christmas story
- Duncan MacLaren
- 13 December 2010
3 Comments
Outside: the fish factory that never sleeps. The people working in it are illegal migrants, paid a pittance and treated as sub humans. Only the strong return from the fishing trips. If you are ill and cannot work, you can be tipped into the sea along with the other rubbish for the seagulls.
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ECONOMICS

Social inclusion in ailing Ireland
- Gerry O'Hanlon
- 02 December 2010
7 Comments
A hopeful sign has been the emergence of commentators, mainly secular, advocating the transformation of the economy to a model based on values like the common good, solidarity, environmental concern, equality, active and inclusive citizenship.
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INTERNATIONAL

Thirty years of Jesuit Refugee Service
- Mark Raper
- 17 November 2010
3 Comments
May I tell you about one refugee whom I met during the 20 years I lived and worked JRS? The story has no happy outcome, indeed far from it. But it may help to communicate some of the feelings that inspire many who accompany the refugees.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Charlie Darwin
- Various
- 20 July 2010
Definitely simian features beneath those whiskers ... definitely a great big hairy chest .. Beneath that stiff Victorian coat.
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AUSTRALIA

In Thailand, the land of snarls
- Simon Roughneen
- 24 May 2010
Standing amid the burnt-out ruins of southeast Asia's second biggest shopping mall, it becomes clear the Land of Smiles has become a land of snarls. The uncompromising quashing of the anti-government redshirt rally by the Thai army may have sown the seeds for more conflict later on.
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AUSTRALIA

What I learned from El Salvador's Jesuit martyrs
- Andrew Hamilton
- 11 November 2009
9 Comments
í 16 November 1989. Bangkok. We looked forward to hearing from Jon Sobrino, the El Salvador Jesuit theologian, who had been speaking at another meeting. But at breakfast we heard the dreadful news.
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AUSTRALIA

The most expensive bananas in Thailand
- Harry Nicolaides
- 09 June 2009
7 Comments
Harry Nicolaides was a prisoner at Bangkok Remand Prison from September 2008 to February 2009, held on charges of lèse majesté. There he met Benny Moafi, who is serving a 22-year sentence for a crime he did not commit.
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AUSTRALIA

Pakistan is not doomed
- Kimberley Layton
- 03 April 2009
1 Comment
In due course the Taliban problem will be confronted and hopefully resolved, but not before the internal political situation stabilises. Patience is a virtue in Pakistan. The situation is not improving quickly, but it does seem to be improving.
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INTERNATIONAL

Nicolaides free, but writers' persecution persists
- Arnold Zable
- 27 February 2009
8 Comments
Harry Nicolaides should never have been jailed, and his release is a cause for celebration and relief. Yet it leaves many unanswered questions about the reason for his imprisonment, and highlights the plight of many other persecuted writers.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Degrees of guilt in Nicolaides' Thai insult case
- Tim Kroenert
- 26 February 2009
2 Comments
We received an email from an acquaintance of Harry Nicolaides, a journalist and Eureka Street contributor. Harry had been arrested in Bangkok: 'Publish his story. He is in a bad condition. Please help.' We acted immediately.
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AUSTRALIA

Thai airport protesters' victory short-lived
- Nicholas Farrelly and Andrew Walker
- 04 December 2008
The protesters who occupied Bangkok's airports are claiming victory in their political battle, following the Constitutional Court's dissolution of the ruling party. But this is far from the end. The government is down, but not out.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The feminist eunuch
- Various
- 26 August 2008
1 Comment
What is Germaine to her personality? .. Her Catholic childhood I fear.
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