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Generational politics
Life, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 11/11/2024
» Political conflicts around the world typically arise from divisions based on class, ethnicity, rural-urban disparities and caste, rather than age differences. This observation caused Asst Prof Kanokrat Lertchoosakul, lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, to investigate if it is true that political conflict in Thailand is one between generations.
UN: Civilian deaths top 5,300 since Myanmar coup
Published on 17/09/2024
» GENEVA - Myanmar’s military government has ramped up killings and arrests in an apparent bid to silence opponents and recruit soldiers in an escalating conflict, with tens of thousands detained since the 2021 coup, a United Nations report said on Tuesday.
Myanmar poverty deepening, says World Bank
Published on 12/06/2024
» Poverty in Myanmar is more widespread than at any time in the last six years, while economic growth in the conflict-torn country is likely to remain at 1% with little respite in sight, the World Bank said on Wednesday.
At the end of the rainbow
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 22/04/2024
» When Tunyawaj Kamolwongwat saw his older sister go on a date as a child, he imagined her marrying a man with whom she had fallen head over heels in love.
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.
Myanmar as interim 'non-state' state
Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 01/03/2024
» Myanmar, also known as Burma, has become a de facto state that is dominated by non-state entities. Contrary to facile claims, Myanmar is not a failed state like some that beset parts of Africa and the Middle East. The ethnically diverse country of 55 million still functions despite widespread violence in an ongoing civil war. Unless and until Myanmar is understood and re-conceptualised as an interim state comprising non-state entities, it will be difficult to move forward to remake and reconstitute a new country after the civil war and the passing of the military junta that seized power on Feb 1, 2021, led by Senior General Min Aung Hlaing.
Govt set to reveal benefits for recruits
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 21/12/2023
» The Ministry of Defence looks set to offer an array of benefits to new service members, including occupational and educational training opportunities, to attract recruits under the government's new policy to fade out conscription and replace it with voluntary recruitment by 2028.
End army 'brain drain': Srettha
News, Post Reporters, Published on 19/04/2023
» Conscription should be replaced by the economic benefits of voluntary enlistment, said the Pheu Thai Party's prime ministerial candidate Srettha Thavisin on Tuesday.
Enough burning
News, Postbag, Published on 16/04/2023
» Re: "Waste plants cause stink", (BP, April 2).