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Myanmar LGBTQ people plea for help
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 20/05/2024
» While Pride Month is around the corner in Thailand, Burmese LGBTQ people live under the Tatmadaw's shadow, waiting for help from their Thai counterparts.
Those acronyms can be bit of a pain
Roger Crutchley, Published on 19/05/2024
» One of my pet peeves with newspapers around the globe has always been the proliferation of acronyms, especially in headlines. Apart from the fact that no one really has the faintest idea what they stand for there's something about them that's just plain ugly.
Singapore's riches grew under its leader, so did discontent
New York Times, Published on 15/05/2024
» SINGAPORE — Singapore was once known as an affluent and strait-laced city-state. Today, it is a glitzy international destination. It has hosted Taylor Swift concerts and Formula One-night races. And it is substantially richer, per capita, than the United States.
Cannabis U-turn could bring protests, lawsuits
Published on 09/05/2024
» The government’s move to reclassify cannabis as a narcotic threatens to trigger street protests and class-action suits by owners of thousands of dispensaries that have sprung up across the country since decriminalisation two years ago.
Pro-Palestinian protests briefly disrupt University of Michigan graduation
Reuters, Published on 05/05/2024
» Pro-Palestinian protesters briefly disrupted a commencement ceremony at the University of Michigan on Saturday while demonstrators faced off with police at the University of Virginia as U.S. colleges braced for more turmoil during graduation festivities.
California police flatten UCLA protest camp
Published on 02/05/2024
» LOS ANGELES - Hundreds of helmeted police swarmed the site of a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of California at Los Angeles early on Thursday, arresting defiant demonstrators and dismantling their encampment.
Ragtag Myanmar resistance sees tide turning in forgotten war
Published on 21/04/2024
» LOIKAW, Myanmar — The night Suu Kyi thought she would die of her wounds on the front lines of a forgotten war, a crescent moon hung overhead. A pendant of the Virgin Mary dangled around her neck. Maybe those augurs saved her. Or maybe, she said, it was not yet time for her to die.
Srettha orders border secured
News, Published on 13/04/2024
» Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said he had instructed the armed forces to secure the border with Myanmar and not allow any military aircraft from the neighbouring country to enter Thai airspace as fighting there has intensified.
Seeking politics of solidarity under Putin's regime
News, Published on 18/03/2024
» In 2013, when I was 13, one of the oldest comedy TV programmes in Russia released a sketch in which a group of musicians performed a version of Queen's I Want to Break Free satirising the country.
On a wild honk chase
News, Published on 09/03/2024
» The car honking incident involving a royal motorcade early last month could prompt a search for people believed to have bankrolled the honker.