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Bangkok for the next Trump-Kim talks?
Oped, Suthichai Yoon, Published on 06/08/2025
» Some might call it improbable. Others might say it's unrealistic. But proposing Bangkok as the host city for the next summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is neither fantasy nor wishful thinking -- it's a logical, geopolitically sound proposal rooted in history and diplomacy.
Negotiating the end of cross-border insurgency
News, Published on 02/12/2019
» Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Hat Yai Peace accords that ended the Communist Party of Malaya's (CPM) 41-year insurgency. This historical episode resonates with present day insurgencies where cross-border linkages can often allow insurgencies to persist and "good neighbourly" relations can open up possibilities for an enduring peace.
The war bringer
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 12/03/2017
» The southern rebellion against the government begins its 58th year tomorrow. It will be the first time the anniversary is marked without any of the original 1960 instigators but in particular it will go on without its primary leader, better called the godfather of the southern conflict.
My mother, my hero, my quest
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 18/09/2016
» Ever since he was a boy, Briton Karin "Bam" Stowe was fascinated by the stories his mother told him about growing up in Thailand and her time as a resistance fighter during World War II.
Britain's highest court rejects Malaysia massacre appeal
AFP, Published on 25/11/2015
» LONDON - Britain's highest court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by relatives of 24 rubber plantation workers killed by British troops in Malaysia in 1948 for a public inquiry into the shootings.
When in doubt, gag the dissenters
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 27/09/2014
» Banning is the oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook, dating back to the pre-Medici, pre-Bolshevik, pre-YouTube era. It's placebo, and yet the illusion of efficiency still works like drugs among jittery leaders and strongmen who fear papers, images, testaments and sometimes truth.
Horticulture and Healing
Life, Published on 23/12/2013
» At midnight on Dec 8, 1941, troops of the Japanese Imperial Army came ashore on Padang Pak Amat Beach in Kelantan, northern Malaya. Less than 48 hours later Japanese bombers sank Royal Navy ships including the HMS Prince Of Wales off the east coast of Malaya, near Pahang. An hour prior to the devastating Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in the US, Indian detachments of the British army in Malaya were engaged in a desperate attempt to hold back the Japanese advance. This battle marked the beginning of the Pacific War and the occupation of British Malaya, the historical backdrop to Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng's atmospheric second novel, winner of this year's Man Asian Literary Prize.
Remains of Chin Peng to stay in South
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 22/09/2013
» The ashes of Chin Peng will likely be kept for remembrance in four southern villages where his Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) comrades resettled after the 1989 peace agreement, sources said Sunday.
Former communist leader dies
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 17/09/2013
» Chin Peng, the former leader of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM), passed away at a Bangkok hospital early yesterday.
Former Malaysian communist leader dies in Thailand
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 16/09/2013
» The former leader of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) Chin Peng died in a Bangkok hospital on Monday, as Malaysia celebrates the 50th anniversary of its independence.