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Thailand 2019 Election Report – CBC The World This Weekend

Posted on March 25, 2019 by Adam Bemma — Leave a comment

BANGKOK – Many Thai voters are hoping for change as they wait on the result of their election. It’s the first held in eight years and the first since Thailand’s 2014 coup. Millions of young people voting for the first time…

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Bangkok Says Goodbye to Cheap Pad Thai – CBC The World this Weekend

Posted on October 8, 2018 by Adam Bemma — Leave a comment

BANGKOK – The Queen of Thai street food, Bangkok’s Jay Fai, was awarded a Michelin star last year. But for the rest of the city’s hawkers, they may be forced out of work in a push by the Bangkok Metropolitan…

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Uganda’s ‘Urban Refugees’ – CBC The World This Weekend

Posted on September 26, 2016 by Adam Bemma — Leave a comment

KAMPALA, Uganda – As the violent conflict in South Sudan deepens, many people are fleeing to their next door neighbour. South Sudan is now the world’s fourth largest refugee situation behind Syria, Afghanistan, and Somalia, according to UNHCR, the UN’s…

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Dictatorship & Democracy in Philippines – CBC The World This Weekend

Posted on May 9, 2016 by Adam Bemma — Leave a comment

MANILA, Philippines – Thirty years since the People Power non-violent uprising that overthrew the corrupt regime of Ferdinand Marcos and martial law, Filipinos head to the polls. The anti-establishment mayor of Davao city, Rodrigo Duterte, is favoured to win the…

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