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 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 ...

Ngui takes one last breath and disappears with a tiny splash. Tunnelling through the turquoise waves, he dives past brightly coloured fish and coral, until he reaches the sandy bottom of the seabed, ...

A lot of the women here look older than they are." Ms Liya had six children, but three died between the ages of 10 and 12 without diagnosis or treatment. Her Moken clan is one of the few related sea ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is a long way from the seaside city of Limbe, in Cameroon, to the tough streets of Detroit, in search of a dream. Singer/songwriter Moken Nunga made this journey to attend designer school, and ...

These days, Salamak Klathalay, like most of us, lives in a house, on land. But this is a relatively new experience for the 78-year-old. “As a kid, I lived on a boat part of the year and on land part ...

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, ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Albums news every morning. The Cameroon-born singer Moken moved to the US as a fashion-obsessed student to study design, an experience ...