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Trump shames US
News, Postbag, Published on 10/10/2016
» Re: "Will crude tape finally make voters dump Trump", (Opinion, Oct 9).
Messing about with monsters in the park
Oped, Roger Crutchley, Published on 25/09/2016
» The most entertaining story of the week has been the round-up of monitor lizards in Lumpini Park, featuring diligent officials and a posse of perspiring newsmen stumbling about chasing after some 400 or so reptiles estimated to be residing in the park.
Top-level corruption
News, Postbag, Published on 02/09/2016
» Re "MahaNakhon 'is in breach' of Thai laws'," (BP, Sept 1).
The scope of the Orlando carnage goes beyond LGBT
News, Frank Bruni, Published on 14/06/2016
» These locations are never random. These targets aren't accidental. They're the very vocabulary in which assailants like the Orlando gunman speak, and he chose a place where there's drinking. And dancing. And where LGBT people congregate, feeling a sense of welcome, of belonging.
How to be a hypocrite
News, Postbag, Published on 28/05/2016
» Re: "A sorry situation", (PostBag, May 26).
Fight over disputed islands has just begun
News, Josh Rogin, Published on 29/10/2015
» After months of internal debate, the White House permitted the Defence Department to sail one ship near a reef in the South China Sea that China claims. The Chinese reaction shows Beijing has no intention of backing down. Now the Obama administration is debating what to do next.
Asian-Americans triumph despite prejudice
News, Nicholas Kristof, Published on 12/10/2015
» This is an awkward question, but here goes: Why are Asian-Americans so successful in America? It's no secret that Asian-Americans are disproportionately stars in American schools, and even in American society as a whole. Census data shows that Americans of Asian heritage earn more than other groups, including whites. Asian-Americans also have higher educational attainment than any other group.
America's estrangement from Thailand
News, Nicholas Borroz, Published on 18/09/2015
» The American public increasingly thinks of Thailand as unstable, a perception fueled by official criticism of Thailand's politics. Although this criticism is partially driven by developments in Thailand, it is also a result of uncoordinated and reactionary foreign policy.
Global disarray as institutions falter
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 17/08/2015
» The international system as we know it is unravelling. Rules and institutions that were set up seven decades ago no longer hold the same weight and authority as they used to. As we grapple with an exacerbating global disorder, established powers and players and old rules and institutions need to be revamped and reinvented to accommodate new realities. Otherwise global tensions will mount, most probably accompanied by confrontation and conflict.
China's bank heralds decline of US
News, Published on 24/03/2015
» Some events are epochal. The decision by Great Britain to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) was one such event. It may have heralded the end of the American century and the arrival of the Asian century.