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US to shift most of naval fleet to Pacific
AFP, Published on 02/06/2012
» The United States will shift the majority of its naval fleet to the Pacific by 2020 as part of a new strategic focus on Asia, Pentagon chief Leon Panetta told a summit in Singapore.
Youth wasted on beggars' road to Thailand
Spectrum, Published on 20/05/2012
» Dice roll and cards are dealt every day in the seven casinos along the Poipet-Thai border, but just five kilometres away in the ramshackle village of Kbal Spean, gamblers of a different sort are playing for much higher stakes: betting their and their children's lives as they struggle to eke out a meagre living as beggars in Thailand.
Think you know what's happening in the world around you?
Guru, Sumati Sivasiamphai, Published on 27/04/2012
» Well, Guru doesn't and we need your help! See if you can answer these amazingly difficult questions and win yourself the joy of being right!
Myanmar: live report
AFP, Published on 01/04/2012
» AS THE POLLS BEGIN TO CLOSE IN MYANMAR, AFP IS NOW WRAPPING UP this live report on the landmark by-election, in which Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was allowed to stand for a seat in parliament for the first time in 22 years.
'Consensual' Rape
News, Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 04/03/2012
» A 16-year-old girl was used as a sex object and filmed. The question of whether she gave her consent to a soldier with a uniform and a gun in a war zone is absurd
Apology urged over forced Australian adoptions
AFP, Published on 01/03/2012
» The Australian government was urged Thursday to apologise and consider compensating tens of thousands of unwed mothers and the babies they were forced to give up for adoption between the 1950s and 70s.
A Design for Life
Life, Onsiri Pravattiyagul, Published on 29/02/2012
» Nontawat Charoenchasri is not your average design snob. Actually, the only word, besides his name, that rings true in the said sentence is "design".
Beijing's strategy for future stability
News, Published on 24/02/2012
» The recently ended standoff between the villagers of Wukan in Guangdong province and local government officials has refocused attention on China's future stability. The more than 100,000 officially reported incidents of unrest each year gives observers the false impression that the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing barely holds the country together.
She shall not be moved
Spectrum, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 12/02/2012
» Five years ago, Boeung Kak Lake was Phnom Penh's largest. It served as home to some 20,000 Cambodians as well as the capital's backpacker ghetto, where foreign travellers would sit on guest house patios in a cannabis haze to watch the sun set over the waters and finish another Angkor Beer. And although the lake was full of sewage and debris and was hardly pristine, it served as an important catchment basin for the capital, providing equilibrium during the wet and dry seasons.
Kasian warns hatred could get out of hand
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 04/02/2012
» Kasian Tejapira, a former student activist who went through the atrocity of Oct 6, 1976, in which state forces cracked down brutally on left-leaning students, gives his view of the controversy regarding the proposal to amend the lese majeste law and the order by Thammasat University, where he teaches, to ban political activities relating to the move from its campuses.