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Todd Ruiz

Todd Ruiz

SCMP contributor
Todd Ruiz first reported from the front lines in Afghanistan in late 2001 and then worked at newspapers in Los Angeles after earning a degree in Journalism. He's covered news, politics and culture in Thailand and Southeast Asia for 15 years as a reporter and newsroom managing editor. His work spans topics from human rights to underground music.

Entrepreneurs, producers and cannabis advocates say a rollback of the laws would be ‘unfair’, hurt tourism and force businesses to go back underground.

In central Thailand, where a Buddhist UFO sect claims it has been speaking to aliens for two decades, believers are flocking to the ‘first UFO music festival in Asia’.

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