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  • OPINION

    Nip unholy hate speech in the bud

    News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 04/11/2015

    » For a Buddhist monk killed in the deep South, a mosque should be burned down in retaliation. This violent proposal from a Buddhist monk stirred a heated debate on social media last week. Is it merely a storm in a tea cup? The answer is no.

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    Southeast Asia's forgotten genocide

    News, Gareth Evans, Published on 04/11/2015

    » October marked 50 years since the Indonesian military launched one of the twentieth century's worst mass murders. Yet the anniversary passed almost unnoticed. The massacre of some 500,000 members or sympathisers of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) during 1965-1966 is the least talked-about genocide of the last century.

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    Sharm el-Sheikh image threatened after Russian jet crash

    News, Published on 04/11/2015

    » The Egyptian government has long promoted the glittering resort of Sharm el-Sheikh as both the crown jewel of its tourist industry and a redoubt of security against jihadi violence.

  • OPINION

    After Erdogan's win, Turkey inches closer to civil war

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/11/2015

    » "You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time...", begins Abraham Lincoln's aphorism about democracy -- but in a multi-party democratic system, that is usually enough. In a parliamentary system like Turkey's, 49% of the popular vote gives you a comfortable majority of seats, and so Recep Tayyib Erdogan will rule Turkey for another four years. If the country lasts that long.

  • OPINION

    Laos ignores dam flak

    News, Editorial, Published on 04/11/2015

    » The Lao government is forging ahead with the construction of the massive Don Sahong dam, close to the tri-border area with Thailand and Cambodia, within the next few weeks. The dam is yet another large-scale project being undertaken by Vientiane to make Laos "the battery of Southeast Asia". Under the programme, Laos intends to become a serious electricity exporter to its neighbours. This may happen. But what is already certain to happen is that the projects will disrupt the Mekong River and affect the people of Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand like never before.

  • OPINION

    Vietnam's high Pisa scores cause a stir

    News, Published on 04/11/2015

    » Vietnam's performance in the latest round of the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) has created a stir among education experts and policymakers around the world.

  • OPINION

    Why Thailand must protect its international reserves

    News, Sawai Boonma, Published on 04/11/2015

    » On the basis of its international reserve holdings of over $160 billion (4.4 trillion baht), Thailand has been a member of the rich-nation club for many years now.

  • OPINION

    The social media police are onto you

    Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 04/11/2015

    » Two weeks ago, a group of 20 social media bystanders gathered outside the headquarters of a local bank to protest against what they called "an assault on a pregnant woman".

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