Operation Smile Thailand is an organisation giving plastic surgical aid to people, mostly children and adolescents, suffering from cleft lips and cleft palates.
http://www.operationsmile.org/
Thai National Elephant Day is celebrated by ethnic Karen Villagers in Mae Sot Thailand. In May 1998, the Cabinet approved the designation of March 13 as Thai Elephants Day to raise and sustain public awareness of the importance of elephants.
On the edge of Mae Sot a town of around 120,000 on the Thai/Burma border in northern Thailand is the town's rubbish dump; a stinking steaming mass of rotting food and plastic. It is also home to a com
In what was her first trip out of Burma in 20 years, National League for Democracy party leader, Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi visited the city of Mae Sot Thailand which has a large Burmese migrant community and Mae La refugee camp.
The river border between Thailand and Myanmar at the towns of Mae Sot and Myawaddy is porous in the extreme. Undocumented Burmese float across on rubber rings and smuggling takes place openly. Mae Sot/Myawaddy, Myanmar, 26/09/2009.
After weeks of heavy rain, the banks of the Moie River and a spillway for Mae Sot reservoir overflowed into the border town of Mae Sot in Western Thailand. Many roads were rendered impassible and vendors from the Burma border market have evacuated.
Burmese refugees fleeing fighting between the democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) and Burmese Government troops. Refugees arrive at a shelter in Mai Sot, Tak province, Thailand. 09/11/2010
Rapid expansion has hindered Thailand in developing appropriate methods of disposing of waste produced by a society that is verging more towards consumer behaviour. The trash is either sent to a landfill or is sent to an incinerator.
Bare-knuckle kickboxing with a purse of just 2000 baht (US$65) for the winner, took place in Mae Sot on the Thai side of the border with Myanmar. The rules are brutally simple, the victory is by surrender or a straight knockout.
Generation Wave is a small, non-political underground group operating inside and outside Myanmar that is dedicated to overthrowing the country's repressive military junta. It uses hip hop music to appeal to young Burmese. Mae Sot, Thailand, 25/09/200
Feature. Burmese migrants on the Thai/Burma border near Mae Sot crossing the Moei river illegally in inner tubes and other boats to Thailand to access proper health care, the border is also home to sm
DMTX. Images taken in a shanty town for Burmese refugees on the Burmese-Thai border show the harsh realities of everyday life for the inhabitants of this "No-Mans Land". Mae Sot, Thailand. 29/12/2009.
Burmese migrant worker abuse is rampant in Thailand.
One 19 year old Karen worker told me that the Thai police were known to abuse and harass workers on a weekly basis, even if they did have a wor
On the day of the election in Burma, November 7th, fighting broke out on the border town of Myawaddy with many refugees feeling for neighbouring country Thailand. 10th November 2011
Mon youth cross the Thai-Burma border for a work opportunity with Kaowao, a Mon newsgroup risking their lives by crossing the Burma border to have a chance at gaining work experience and learn English. Sangkhlaburi, Thailand. 13/09/2010
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