The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday January 7th, 2022
The role of corruption and narcotics in the Thai deep south insurgency by Murray Hunter
Institutional corruption and the narcotics trade within the Thai deep south are important dynamics of the ongoing insurgency. These two issues have often been neglected in most analyses of the regional conflict.
Up until early 2000, the southern Thai drug trade was primarily controlled by Chinese diaspora based in Hat Yai, Songkhla Province. Hat Yai is the major southern railway junction and where major roads crossed. The town became the major transit point for heroin shipped down from the Golden Triangle onto Malaysia and the rest of the world through Sadao, near the border.
As the Chinese mafia switched from narcotics and prostitution into legitimate businesses, the deep south provinces and Yala and Narathiwat became more important smuggling transit points, taken over by local Thai-Chinese.
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At a Red Light #poem by George Cassidy Payne
“There are those who only have their name to give as thanks.
Have you seen a two year old boy hand his papa an orange peel?”
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Where the #economy headed by Joseph Gatt
I think what COVID did was prune the dead wood. That is those industries that were not being productive but kept producing now have a pretext to halt production and shut down.
Those industries that were healthy and knew where they were heading are going to keep producing; start investing in new markets, and take over the old markets that were held by unproductive economies.
But the new economic order needs to be one where industries don’t waste money and energy on projects that are not productive. A lot of industries stayed afloat without being productive because they had easy access to credit and money, and were cooking the books so people in the industry could keep their jobs. And that’s a dangerous move in case we face new pandemic times.
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Ghostin’ #025 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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