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What's scary about Facebook's new troll findings
News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 03/08/2018
» Facebook's widely publicised discovery of a possible influence operation through "inauthentic" accounts warrants some scrutiny -- and some reflection about the difference between a genuine political debate on social networks versus its simulated version.
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Step up, or step down
News, Postbag, Published on 03/08/2018
» The selection of seven new members for Thailand's National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) kicks off this month, and all indications are that the process will do little to shore up the commission's tarnished reputation.
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Let Ko-ee return home
News, Editorial, Published on 03/08/2018
» After a long battle, centenarian grandpa Ko-ee Mimee's legal right to become a Thai has won state recognition.
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A case for expanding child support
News, Thomas Davin, Published on 03/08/2018
» Thailand is an ageing society. In the coming years, a workforce of fewer and fewer young people will be responsible for securing the country's growth and prosperity. Thailand needs every child in the country to reach their full potential and cannot afford to leave a single child behind. Expanding the government's Child Support Grant programme -- which currently covers only 24% of children up to the age of three -- to every child from birth up to six years of age, would go a long way to address this challenge.
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Taking Cambodia's bogus election to task
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 03/08/2018
» It was always a foregone conclusion that Cambodia's incumbent government of Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Cambodian People's Party (CPP) were going to win the July 29 election. Yet some observers anticipated a modicum of feigned legitimacy whereby a handful of smaller parties would gain a few seats in the National Assembly. Not bothering with any semblance of legitimacy, the CPP has apparently claimed all 125 parliamentary seats. Cambodia now has an elected dictatorship, naked and bare, in mockery of what passes as a free and fair election anywhere and in defiance of global democratic aspirations.
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Long trek to democracy in SE Asia
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 03/08/2018
» A quarter-century before the Arab Spring of 2011, there was a democratic spring in Southeast Asia: the Philippines in 1986, Myanmar in 1988, Thailand in 1992 and Indonesia in 1998. The Arab Spring was largely drowned in blood (Syria, Egypt, Libya), but democracy really seemed to be taking root in Southeast Asia -- for a while.
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