[REPORT] The Thai Protest Zone

By Karyn Kaplan

 

Note from Asia Catalyst: On May 20-22, Asia Catalyst will join with Thai AIDS
Treatment Action Group and Korekata AIDS Law Center to hold a training for
Chinese and Thai AIDS NGOs in Bangkok. We’ve been communicating with Karyn
Kaplan of TTAG to figure out if the training could still go forward, given the
protests. Karyn wrote us an email describing the situation on May 4. Since
then, the New York Times reports that divisions
are emerging
between protest leaders as the state again threatens to use
force to end the protests. Karyn gave us permission to reprint her email to us –
a picture of the scene in the protest zone.

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[NEWS] Will Labor Rights Film be Banned in Cambodia?

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By Rich Garella

Wow, that was fast.
We’ve only just completed the public TV version of our film Who Killed Chea
Vichea?, 
and already a group of Cambodian unions plans to show it. In
Cambodia, where it counts most. Their aim is to highlight the government’s
failure to conduct a real investigation of the 1999 murder of the Cambodian labor
leader.

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[COMMENTARY] Where are the NGOs in China’s Natural Disasters?

By Yu Fangqiang

 

The other night, a little after midnight, I was about to turn off my computer and go to sleep when
I noticed, with surprise, an article in China Development Brief’s Community Times: “Droughts in the Southwest
Test Emergency Response: Where are the NGOs?”

 

China has recently been hit by a number of natural disasters, including the epic
drought
in the southwest and an earthquake in Qinghai. After reading this
article, I had a few thoughts I had to share.

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