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Shifting from tolerance to real inclusion
Oped, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 23/05/2025
» On the occasion of the International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia on May 17, UN human rights experts recently called for countries to work with LGBTI communities and not to police them. This was an apt message that has to resonate at the national and local levels, especially when the world is witnessing regression in regard to policies on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Laughable justice
Oped, Postbag, Published on 20/05/2025
» Re: "Justice must ditch the glitz", (Editorial, May 13).
Costly inaction on gender parity
Oped, Published on 08/05/2025
» As I sat in the gender parity session at the WEF's Annual Meeting in Davos early this year, a familiar frustration washed over me.
Vance and Francis: divergent values but shared ideas
AFP, Published on 19/04/2025
» VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis is the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics who preaches for a more open church and empathy for migrants.
Walls of shame
Oped, Postbag, Published on 19/03/2025
» Re: "Border wall won't work", (Editorial, March 18).
Growth game plan
Oped, Postbag, Published on 14/03/2025
» Re: "TDRI wants govt to upskill workers", (BP, March 10) & "Indonesia's lack of skilled youths hinders growth", (World, March 12).
Gender gap won't close without change
Oped, Boonwara Sumano, Published on 12/03/2025
» The Global Gender Gap Report 2024, published by the World Economic Forum (WEF), benchmarks gender parity across 146 economies and shows that the global gender gap has closed by 68.5%. However, at the current rate, full gender parity remains 134 years away.
Trump fires top US general in Pentagon shakeup
Published on 22/02/2025
» WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Friday fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General CQ Brown, and pushed out five other admirals and generals in an unprecedented shake-up of US military leadership.
Trump blames 'diversity' for deadly Washington airliner collision
AFP, Published on 31/01/2025
» WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump -- speaking as the bodies of 67 people were being pulled from Washington's Potomac River -- launched an extraordinary political attack Thursday, blaming diversity hires for the midair collision between an airliner and a military helicopter.
Suspect held in slaying of US insurance CEO
Published on 10/12/2024
» ALTOONA, Pennsylvania - New York prosecutors have filed a murder charge against the suspect in the killing of a health insurance executive, a brazen shooting that set off a tense five-day manhunt that culminated in his capture in Pennsylvania on Monday.