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Splitting seems not all that shocking
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 22/04/2014
» When a banner bearing the message “This country has no justice. I want to split the country” was set up earlier this year across a pedestrian flyover in Phayao province in the North, I was shocked.
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Unwelcome rise of hatred
News, Published on 22/04/2014
» The sudden trend of extreme nationalism should worry every citizen who is concerned for the future of this country. A Facebook-centred group called the Rubbish Collection Organisation has focused attention on the problem. RCO's founder says he and supporters will hunt down and "exterminate" those who insult the monarchy.
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Time for action over North Korea
News, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 22/04/2014
» Last week, for the first time, the UN Security Council held a special session on the situation of human rights in North Korea (the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea – DPRK). While the range of human rights abuses there are well-known to the international community, the Security Council took years before opting to discuss the issue. It was the voluminous findings of a UN Commission of Inquiry on human rights violations in North Korea, published recently, which propelled it to the top of the UN agenda.
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Postbag: Soapbox poseurs
News, Published on 22/04/2014
» Various politicians, elected or otherwise, have been standing on their soapbox of democracy pontificating about elections and rulings, and assuming the moral high ground by citing "the people" to legitimise their argument. Who exactly are "the people"?
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Indonesia poll uncertainty fuels unease across Asean
News, Published on 22/04/2014
» Indonesia’s fourth parliamentary elections since the fall of strongman Suharto in 1998 have taken place without incident. Though the official results are expected only in May, the contours of the new political landscape are emerging. The two-step exercise in its latest democratic transition — parliamentary followed by presidential elections — is likely to revolve around the top three parties, the Indonesian Party of Struggle (PDIP), Golkar, and the Greater Indonesia Movement (Gerindra).
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Without new toxic waste laws, we stay contaminated
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 22/04/2014
» Fear of toxic pollution from the recent blazes at a rubbish dump in Samut Prakan's Phraeksa area seem to have disappeared from our collective attention as soon as it disappeared from the headlines. However, the many health risks it poses have not gone away.
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No such thing as a ‘clean’ witch-hunt
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 22/04/2014
» Are we to believe that a legal limbo or administrative void will simply happen and a new beginning will be born?
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Just old wine in a new bottle
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 22/04/2014
» Fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s latest olive branch to his political opponents is nothing new – it's just sour old wine in a new bottle.
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