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  • OPINION

    A love supreme

    Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 28/08/2014

    » Dear Army Chief/Junta Leader/Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, I love you. I’m not sure why, how or when. I just know for a fact that I do.

  • OPINION

    Postbag: Delusional rhetoric

    News, Published on 28/08/2014

    » The terrorism that has been used against innocent people in schools and markets in the deep South is substantively drawn from the same Islamist separatist ideology that motivates Hamas in its murderous attacks against innocent people in schools and markets in Israel and the West Bank.

  • OPINION

    A new measure of global growth

    News, Published on 28/08/2014

    » When the United Nations' eight Millennium Development Goals (MDG) deadline expires next year, the world will be able to point to several important achievements since their launch in 2000. Extreme poverty has been halved during this period; an estimated 100 million slum-dwellers have gained access to safe drinking water, and millions to health care; and large numbers of girls are now receiving an education.

  • OPINION

    Tackling the class war over city footpaths

    News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 28/08/2014

    » Footpaths in Thailand's big cities, particularly Bangkok, are unique. With 24/7 food stalls in service, tourists from around the world simply love the convenience.

  • OPINION

    Reform must be open to all

    News, Published on 28/08/2014

    » News that the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) has decided to free Veera Somkhwamkid, leader of the Thai Patriots Network, and seven other members of an energy policy reform group, without pressing any charges against them, is welcome.

  • OPINION

    Middle East is falling apart for a reason

    News, Published on 28/08/2014

    » The horror stories emerging from northern Iraq, as well as the continuing slaughter in Syria's civil war, point to a tectonic shift in the Middle East. Almost 100 years after World War I (WWI), the regional state system established after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire is unravelling.

  • OPINION

    The first and final step to freedom

    Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 27/08/2014

    » Which type of campaign or protest do you think has been the most effective and interesting? Gandhi’s fasts? Sasin Chalermlarp’s marathon walk? Perhaps you prefer the Ice Bucket Challenge, which has recently become vogue on social media.

  • OPINION

    Middle powers must cultivate Asean ties

    News, Published on 27/08/2014

    » At the Asean Foreign Ministers Meeting in Nay Pyi Taw on Aug 14, the 10 countries of Asean made a timely show of unity by issuing an assertive joint communiqué in the face of rising pressure in the Asia Pacific. This is a surprising and encouraging resurgence of confidence in the Asean vision at time when tensions between the great powers of China and the United States threaten to divide the region.

  • OPINION

    Brickbats don’t help

    News, Published on 27/08/2014

    » PM’s Office permanent secretary ML Panadda Diskul — in coming out with the allegation that some senior provincial administration organisation members travelled in first class, and drank wine that cost more than 100,000 baht a bottle — may already know who was involved, and when the incident happened.

  • OPINION

    Maliki gone but his crisis remains

    News, Published on 27/08/2014

    » Nouri al-Maliki's fitful departure from Iraq's premiership recalled many other cliffhanger exits by unpopular political leaders. His leaving did not come a moment too soon for the many Iraqis who have laid all of the country's current troubles at his doorstep.

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