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Bringing Rohingya home
News, Published on 28/04/2019
» The Rohingya crisis, a mass exodus of Muslims in Myanmar prompted by the government's bloody crackdown in 2017, has been a difficult issue for the international community to tackle.
Myanmar Buddhists seek tougher action on Rohingya
Associated Press, Published on 31/08/2017
» Several hundred Buddhist nationalists, including monks, rallied in Myanmar's largest city on Wednesday to urge stronger action against insurgents from the Muslim Rohingya minority for attacks on police last week.
The hostage crisis solved in the name of the King
Spectrum, Published on 23/10/2016
» In 1972, armed Palestinian "Black September" guerrillas seized the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok, threatened to execute the six Israelis inside and blow up the building. But just as suddenly they surrendered, saying "We love your king" when told that King Bhumibol Adulyadej was appointing his son as sole heir to the throne that very day.
Elite students receive a lesson in self-censorship
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 31/01/2016
» Teeraporn Suwanvidhu had a tough decision to make five years ago as president of the Thai Student Association in the UK: remove an article, or lose all support from the Thai Embassy next year.
Calls for justice: How smartphones allowed a country to share its anger
Spectrum, Published on 03/01/2016
» Despite police and the ruling junta blaming “instigators” for stirring trouble across the border over the Koh Tao murder trial, the truth is more likely a click away.
Suu Kyi leads rally honouring father
AFP, Published on 13/02/2015
» NATMAUK, MYANMAR — Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi addressed a crowd of thousands Friday in the biggest celebrations honouring her independence hero father in memory, underscoring her legacy months before leading the opposition to momentous elections.
US ‘enthusiastically participated’ in genocide
Spectrum, Richard S Ehrlich, Published on 27/04/2014
» Encouraged by the international success of his documentary film, The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer is now pushing Washington to publicly expose how “the US enthusiastically participated in the genocide” in Indonesia during the 1960s.
The zombie Nazis of North Asia
Spectrum, Michael Ruffles, Published on 02/03/2014
» Two impressive and creepy railway carriages stand entombed inside an Aladdin’s cave of goodies donated by dictators and despots in a museum nestled in Mount Myohyang. Both date back to the 1950s and both are well appointed in ways that befit a communist strongman; each had a bed, desk and space to conduct affairs of state, one had a chandelier. The one on the left with a khaki and green interior colour scheme was a gift from Mao Zedong, the blacker one to the right from Joseph Stalin.
The GT200 on trial
Spectrum, Published on 18/08/2013
» The criminal trial of GT200 manufacturer Gary Bolton in London showed not only how he had fraudulently sold his ineffective "bomb detectors" to Thailand and other countries at a price 1,100 times their production cost, but also how British government agencies had assisted him in his sales.
Can Myanmar cinema get a second act?
Spectrum, Published on 14/07/2013
» During its 93-year history, Myanmar's film industry has experienced more than its fair share of ups and downs. However, to say that its downward spiral began following the 1962 coup that brought the military and a socialist regime to power _ as many commentators contend _ isn't entirely accurate. Total shutdowns preceded the coup and an arguably more sinister atmosphere developed decades afterwards it.