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May 8, 2012 • Comments Closed His name was Lee Siaw Foo. Not many people know of him. Why should they? He was just a lowly drug courier from Sabah, who in the early hours of 28 August 2009, was dragged kicking and screaming out of his cell in Changi Prison, and into the execution chamber. His crime – trafficking 38.49...
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Mar 5, 2012 • Comments Closed Last month, we received an email from a young Australian called Thomas Hayes. Here’s a bit of what he said: “I returned from south east asia in october 2011 after a while backpacking around this part of the world. While i spent time in Cambodia, i was lucky enough to make friends with a guy...
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Feb 28, 2012 • Comments Closed It's the Spud's last day at Lianain Films. James calls it The End Of An Era. Sounds a little melodramatic, but he's right. It's hard to imagine work without the Spud.
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Feb 17, 2012 • Comments Closed We’ve been keeping vampire hours these past weeks. Breakfast at 4 in the afternoon, lunch at 7. The day ends at 7 the following morning, sometimes 8. We say our goodnights. Sleep. And then the madness starts again.
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Jan 15, 2012 • Comments Closed Dear Vui Kong, Happy birthday, in advance. You’ll be 24 on the 19th of January. It’s a huge milestone. Outside here, your supporters are celebrating the fact that you’ve lived another year. Last time we met, I asked what you were planning to do on your birthday. You said you’d spend it thinking about your...
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Dec 31, 2011 • Comments Closed This is one of my favourite pictures this year. Taken in some park in Amsterdam, on my iPhone. No action, no drama, no backstory. I think I like it because it captures a moment that was just so not the 2011 we know. I remember the day well. James made a huge breakfast. And then...
Workers at a South Korean-run shipyard in the Philippines are fighting back against a deadly safety record.
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Dec 15, 2011 • Comments Closed Our new documentary, “Storm in Subic Bay” airs today on Al Jazeera English’s 101 East. We will post the link to the film as soon as it is available. Rudolfo Alvarez and his children. Photo by Kirsten Han. We meet Rodolfo Alvarez on a gloomy, overcast afternoon. His home isn’t much to look at –...
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Oct 26, 2011 • Comments Closed The photo shows a girl with long, curly hair and big expressive eyes. Her name, we’re told, is Christa. And she is an inmate at a maximum security prison in Tennessee. What led her there was an unspeakably gruesome crime. She had lured a girl she suspected of sleeping with her boyfriend into an isolated...
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Oct 17, 2011 • Comments Closed Asia is renowned for producing some of the best and brightest students in the world. Such academic achievement is often underpinned by parental pressure, strict discipline and relentless hard study. In Hong Kong, the demand for extra tuition has turned cram or tutorial school teachers into rich celebrities. Yet some students have been driven to contemplate...
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Oct 10, 2011 • Comments Closed A post marking the World Day Against the Death Penalty. There are checks, so many checks. Layers of security and gates and searches to go through before they finally lead you to a long corridor. The walls are painted pale yellow and the smell is hard to describe. Sharp and sour and distinct, it hits...
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Sep 21, 2011 • Comments Closed iProtest follows activist Debby Chan as she works to gather evidence against Foxconn and Apple, often at great risk to herself.
