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Living sustainably alongside increasing natural risks
News, Shamshad Akhtar, Published on 20/09/2017
» The past few weeks have been a grim reminder that natural disasters know no borders. They can strike countries at opposite ends of the globe simultaneously and whether in Asia or North America, the images of people and livelihoods being swept away are disturbing.
Bad drivers hurt everyone
News, Editorial, Published on 24/03/2017
» Aiming to prevent potential horrendous and fatal road accidents during the upcoming Songkran holidays, the government has come up with a number of new legal measures. Last Tuesday, its new order imposing harsher punishments on traffic law violators took effect, mainly focusing on the use of seat belts and collecting fines from traffic law violators.
Pray against intolerance in the far South
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 18/02/2017
» Being a teenager is hard. Being a teenager in the deep South is harder. Being an LGBT teenager is also hard. And being an LGBT teenager in the deep South is even harder, sometimes the hardest.
Fighting for women and children: an urgent need for change
News, Mark Hughes, Published on 10/12/2015
» The girl was aged just 10, heavily pregnant and carrying HIV after being raped by a merchant seaman in Recife, Brazil. She was also homeless.
End this feverish media frenzy
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 26/11/2015
» It looks like the entertainment news correspondents, who are spending day after day at Ramathibodi Hospital covering the fate of Channel 3 actor Thrisadee "Por" Sahawong, whose life is now hanging by a thread due to severe dengue haemorrhagic fever, have finally learned how to respect the rights and privacy of the 37-year-old heartthrob.
Swatting away visions of refugee hell
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 05/09/2015
» This week the drowned Syrian boy rattles the conscience of Europe — and hopefully the oil-rich Arab nations — while in Bangkok, the Uighur fiasco keeps sending repercussions. In Europe, fierce debates ring across parliaments from the UK to Hungary as to whether countries should take in more refugees to cushion this humanitarian crisis. Meanwhile, true to form, the Thai police awarded themselves with cash even though the suspects haven’t been tried and while every suggestion that the Erawan blast was connected with our foul deportation of 109 Uighurs in July is adamantly deflected, as if with fly swatters.
The big issue: The man in the yellow T-shirt
Alan Dawson, Published on 23/08/2015
» Police and the public know pretty much everything about the life of the man in the yellow T-shirt. Everything, that is, for the 20 minutes of that vile life between 6.38pm and 6.58pm last Monday.
#LINEHyperactivityDisorder
Guru, Napamon Roongwitoo, Published on 17/07/2015
» I've recently taught my mother how to use Line, because she'd been to a reunion and suddenly realised how much she had missed out on.
Serial killers on the loose
News, Published on 28/04/2015
» The arrest of a suspect in a shocking Bangkok murder is welcome news. This is tempered, however, by strong suspicion that the man arrested committed a long string of sadistic murders and assaults.
The raid that never was
News, Published on 25/09/2014
» What actually happened at a shophouse in tambon Non Tap of Nong Rua district of Khon Kaen on Sept 18 is now the subject of investigation by a panel set up on the orders of Pol Lt Gen Dejnarong Sutthicharnbancha, commissioner of the Provincial Police Region 4 Bureau.