2009
Inhabitat » Butterfly Bamboo Homes Are Hope for Thai Orphans
Humanitarian design organization TYIN Tegnestue from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology conceived the project in response to a need for more dormitories for Karen refugee children in the village of Noh Bo on the Thai-Burmese border. The six woven bamboo huts, dubbed Soe Ker Tie, or The Butterfly Huts because of their “winged” appearance were designed with the children’s happiness and health in mind.
Andaman Rising: Raising Burmese
by HK
Raising Burmese School is important to Toe Toe's mother. So Rose keeps the 9-year-old’s hair cut and helps with homework. At the first sign of fever, Rose’s hand is the one reaching for Toe Toe's forehead. Yet, Rose is not Toe Toe’s mother. Rose is a teacher at one of the few schools for Burmese children in Thailand. Two years ago, she and her husband welcomed Toe Toe and her brother into their one-room home. The biological parents – old acquaintances from Myanmar – live 1.5 hours away on a rubber plantation with little time to meet the children’s simple needs such as supervision. There is also no school nearby. Through two couples’ sacrifice, two Burmese children now face a brighter future in a foreign land.
2007
Asiaweek.com | A City At A Crossroad | 3/31/2000
Conservationists fear renovation will drive out locals, killing George Town's unique cultural heritage. With its Chinese shophouses, colonial bungalows and Anglo-Indian mansions, the city has no peer among the region's ports. The central district is an Asian kaleidoscope, housing rich and poor, skilled and unskilled, and people worshipping a variety of gods and plying different trades. Living cheek by jowl are the descendants of immigrants from China, India and Indonesia, along with Burmese, Thais, Europeans and Arabs and more.
2006
2005
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by lynnhz & 1 other
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