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Trump has been convicted. Can he still run for president?
New York Times, Published on 31/05/2024
» NEW YORK - Not since Eugene V. Debs campaigned from a prison cell more than a century ago has the United States experienced what is now happening: a prominent candidate with felony convictions running for president. And never before has that candidate been someone with a real chance of winning.
Corrections under fire
Oped, Published on 29/05/2024
» Once again, the Corrections Department has become the subject of public suspicion over the issue of impartiality. This time around, it concerns Vonnarat Tangkaravakoon, a key culprit in the biggest stock market fraud and the majority shareholder of cable and wire manufacturer Stark Corporation.
For journalists, neutrality is not the goal
Oped, Published on 17/05/2024
» My ability to be neutral as a political journalist depends on the intellectual honesty of the people -- and the society -- I cover.
Literacy hurdles
Oped, Postbag, Published on 15/03/2024
» Re: "Education woes aren't about funding", (Opinion, March 13).
'Scapegoat' seeks cash for losses
News, Post Reporters, Published on 07/02/2024
» A 28-year-old former factory worker is seeking compensation from the authorities after serving three years in jail for a crime he did not commit -- an undeserved punishment he claims cost him his family.
14th-floor saga
Oped, Postbag, Published on 19/01/2024
» Re: "Don't call Thaksin an inmate, says Corrections Dept", (BP, Jan 16). The saga surrounding Thaksin Shinawatra has reached higher than the 14th floor of the Police Hospital, where he is being treated for multiple ailments, including claustrophobia, which he could get if he were languishing in a small prison cell.
Too divorced from nature
Postbag, Published on 31/12/2023
» Re: "Pork puzzle" & "Meatless mantra", (PostBag, Dec 21).
French court jails Rwandan ex-doctor 24 years over 1994 genocide
AFP, Published on 20/12/2023
» PARIS - A French court on Wednesday sentenced former Rwandan doctor Sosthene Munyemana to 24 years in prison for his involvement in the 1994 genocide of Tutsis in his native East African country.
'Sea of misery': Indian rights lawyer spotlights plight of jailed women
AFP, Published on 30/11/2023
» MUMBAI - After three years in detention experiencing the "sea of misery" endured by women in Indian jails, one of the nation's best-known rights lawyers warns that society's prejudices are amplified behind bars.
Hundreds face sentencing in historic Italian mafia trial
AFP, Published on 20/11/2023
» LAMEZIA TERME, Italy: Hundreds of alleged mobsters were being sentenced on Monday by an Italian court, the culmination of a historic, nearly three-year trial against Calabria's notorious 'Ndrangheta mafia.