The Moken people, living between Myanmar and Thailand for around 4,000 years, lead a life unlike any other. Known as sea nomads, their entire existence revolves around the ocean, a lifestyle that's ...

Forced to live on dry land, the Moken (people of the sea) are excluded from society and often their rights are violated. Bangkok (AsiaNews) – The Moken* (also known as Chao Ley or people of the sea) ...

The Moken, "sea-gypsies" who live along the coast and islands in the Andaman Sea have always drawn people's interest and compassion. This may explain the scale of assistance and donations given to a ...

Most of us were introduced to the Moken last winter, when there was a brief flurry of stories on how the “sea gypsies” of Thailand and Burma managed to escape the tsunami by reading the language of ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. THEY live in stilted shacks built on a mud flat above piles of oyster shells, broken glass and rubbish, their nomadic days on the seas ...

One of the few remaining hunter-gatherer populations in Southeast Asia, the Moken have made the sea their home. Foraging food from oceans and forests, trading fish and shells for other necessities, ...

For the children of Thailand's Moken Sea Gypsy communities, going to school is one of the best ways of securing them a prosperous future, but playground bullying and a lack of acceptance means many ...

The Moken are a nomadic sea people who live in and around southern Thailand, traditionally feeding on the fruits of the sea for eight months of the year. But the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami destroyed ...

The origins of the Moken ‘Sea Gypsies,’ a group of traditionally boat-dwelling nomadic foragers, remain speculative despite previous examinations from linguistic, sociocultural and genetic ...

The Moken, "sea-gypsies" who live along the coast and islands in the Andaman Sea have always drawn people's interest and compassion. This may explain the scale of assistance and donations given to a ...