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is the border still closed after new year?

nice to hear that tradition has started to disappear, I don't know if anyone still follows the tradition, but 30 years ago there were many who did. thanks for sharing your positive experience

Can it really be true that no one knows what newspapers were in Chiang Rai back then?

has sent you a pm with contact info, let me know if you have not received it. Thank you so much for your help.

Does anyone know if I want to find a newspaper company, who wrote about Chiang Rai news in the late 80s and early 00s which newspaper should I try to contact or local journalist?

So your friend is Akha and had twins and kept them right? what I have heard is that Akha thinks only animals can have more than one child and that one will be possessed by evil the other is good, but one can not see the difference, therefore both must be killed. I do not know about the man, but the girl can not be in the village next year and can not go to another village, but must live in the jungle. she is not allowed to see or talk to anyone during that time, but the village can provide her with food (however, they can talk to the "trees" nearby) one can not talk about twins in the village at all, so the young people who have not experienced it will not know the tradition until they get twins in the village. since it is the traditional way the Akhas think, I'm interested in what would happen these days if such twins came back and visited the village. what will the village think and do and what about the parents? if your friend is Akha it is possible to get in touch with him so I can learn a little more about the Akha traditions?

Thank you for your information. Does anyone know what the Ahkas perceive of the twins are after an adoption? What will the parents think if the twins are grown up and the twins come and visit them? And what will the village think? I would very much like to get in touch with someone who knows the Ahka culture especially in the Chiang Rai area.

because I just heard about 2 pairs of twins who has been adopted who mentioned this tradition. and a searches confirmed it.

I have understood that Akha cannot keep their twin children and traditionally killed them. But have started giving them away for adoption, also some have been rescued and then adopted. But how will the Akhas perceive them after an adoption? What will the parents think if the twins are grown up and the twins come and visit them? And what will the village think? Not twins but only children, are there other common causes why the Ahkas does not want/cannot keep a child but abandon it?

I'm looking for a map of all Ahka villages in Chiang Rai about where the Ahka villages are located. i have tried to search for it without success.