Thin Lei Win
Thin Lei Win joined AlertNet in June 2008, becoming the first AlertNet journalist to be based in Asia. Prior to joining AlertNet, Thin, born and raised in Myanmar and now living in Bangkok, worked at trade publications in Singapore and most recently as a freelance writer in Vietnam. She has a Masters in Multi-Media Journalism from Bournemouth University.
Climate change threatens millions in Vietnam, says Oxfam
Author: Thin Lei Win
Vietnam has long grabbed headlines for its rapid economic growth. As Southeast Asia's newest Tiger, its meteoric rise was eclipsed only by neighbouring giant China. In a little over a decade, the country slashed its poverty rate from 58 to 18 percent, Asian Development Bank figures showed last year.
Even so, millions remain vulnerable. In 2004, some 16 million people were still classified as poor, while another 28 million were eking out an existence just above the official poverty line. Meanwhile, the gulf between rich and poor is increasing.
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Author: Thin Lei Win
Vietnam has long grabbed headlines for its rapid economic growth. As Southeast Asia's newest Tiger, its meteoric rise was eclipsed only by neighbouring giant China. In a little over a decade, the country slashed its poverty rate from 58 to 18 percent, Asian Development Bank figures showed last year.
Even so, millions remain vulnerable. In 2004, some 16 million people were still classified as poor, while another 28 million were eking out an existence just above the official poverty line. Meanwhile, the gulf between rich and poor is increasing.
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Laos still paying the price of Vietnam war
Author: Thin Lei Win
Xieng Khouang, Laos - Imagine growing up in a country where the equivalent of a B52 planeload of cluster bombs was dropped every eight minutes for nine years.
Then imagine seeing your children and grandchildren being killed and maimed by the same bombs, three decades after the war is over.
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Author: Thin Lei Win
Xieng Khouang, Laos - Imagine growing up in a country where the equivalent of a B52 planeload of cluster bombs was dropped every eight minutes for nine years.
Then imagine seeing your children and grandchildren being killed and maimed by the same bombs, three decades after the war is over.
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Dancing, DIY saunas help Thai elderly cope with AIDS
Author: Thin Lei Win
Chiang Mai, Thailand - Resplendent in crisp white blouses, black and fuchsia-striped sarongs and crowns of fresh orchids, the group of ladies in their seventies and eighties look like they're dressed in their Sunday best. They dance and sing, moving delicately as they follow the rhythm. Their leader, an 84-year-old former school teacher, stands in the middle, brandishing a lyric sheet and ordering everyone to stay in line. ...
Author: Thin Lei Win
Chiang Mai, Thailand - Resplendent in crisp white blouses, black and fuchsia-striped sarongs and crowns of fresh orchids, the group of ladies in their seventies and eighties look like they're dressed in their Sunday best. They dance and sing, moving delicately as they follow the rhythm. Their leader, an 84-year-old former school teacher, stands in the middle, brandishing a lyric sheet and ordering everyone to stay in line. ...
Never too old to workÂ
Author: Thin Lei Win
What would you do if you lost three family members - two to HIV - and were diagnosed with intestinal cancer? If you're 59-year-old Khun (a honorific title in Thai) Bampen, you set up a weaving centre using a 5,000 Baht (less than $150) grant from a local non-governmental organisation and persuade friends to join you. ...
Author: Thin Lei Win
What would you do if you lost three family members - two to HIV - and were diagnosed with intestinal cancer? If you're 59-year-old Khun (a honorific title in Thai) Bampen, you set up a weaving centre using a 5,000 Baht (less than $150) grant from a local non-governmental organisation and persuade friends to join you. ...
Child malnutrition in Asia tops sub-Saharan Africa - UNICEF
Author: Thin Lei Win
Here's a statistic to digest - 30 percent of children under five in Asia-Pacific are underweight. In sub-Saharan Africa, a region many associate with images of starving children, the figure is 28 percent. India, Bangladesh and Pakistan together account for half the world's underweight children, says the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) in its first regional report on child mortality, released this month. ...
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Author: Thin Lei Win
Here's a statistic to digest - 30 percent of children under five in Asia-Pacific are underweight. In sub-Saharan Africa, a region many associate with images of starving children, the figure is 28 percent. India, Bangladesh and Pakistan together account for half the world's underweight children, says the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) in its first regional report on child mortality, released this month. ...
