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People's Party defends deal with Bhumjaithai
News, Post Reporters, Published on 19/09/2025
» People's Party leader, Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut, rejected reports which claimed his party had become "political scaffolding" for the Bhumjaithai Party, amid criticism about the agreement struck by the two parties that paved the way for Anutin Charnvirakul to assume the premiership.
The postwar era's first democratic authoritarian
Oped, Published on 08/09/2025
» The 78th anniversary of India's independence last month offers an opportunity to recall one of the most insidious moments in the country's post-independence history: prime minister Indira Gandhi's 1975 decision to declare an emergency and suspend civil liberties. A new book by political scientist Srinath Raghavan, Indira Gandhi and the Years That Transformed India, not only revisits that fateful move, but also traces its lasting impact half a century later.
Protest leader: We don’t want a coup but …
Published on 28/06/2025
» Leaders of a major rally held on Saturday in Bangkok are united in the belief that Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra must step down to take responsibility for the deepening border crisis with Cambodia.
Dozens injured when driver ploughs into parade crowd in Liverpool
New York Times, Published on 27/05/2025
» LONDON — A driver slammed a car into a crowd celebrating Liverpool’s Premier League victory, seriously injuring a child and an adult and sending more than two dozen people to hospitals, officials in England said Monday.
Architect sizes up 40-year challenge
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 25/06/2023
» It was love at first sight. More than 10 years ago, Andre Demesmaeker, an architect for the Belgian government, was asked to investigate a ceiling collapse at the Palace of Justice, a 19th-century behemoth in the heart of Brussels that houses the country's sprawling judiciary system and has been falling apart for decades.
Death by a thousand cuts
Life, Chris Baker, Published on 09/07/2021
» The film director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, is the most celebrated Thai creative artist in the world today, awarded the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2010 and a string of other international prizes. After wrestling with the Thai censors, he decided first to stop showing his films in Thailand, and then to stop making his films here. He has recently been making a film with an international star cast in Colombia, almost exactly the opposite point on the globe, the farthest possible distance from Thailand on the planet.
Hong Kong leader apologises as rally chokes city
AFP, Published on 17/06/2019
» HONG KONG - About two million protesters choked Hong Kong's streets in a powerful rebuke of a reviled extradition law, organisers said Sunday, piling pressure on the city's embattled pro-Beijing leader who apologised for causing "conflict" but refused to step down.
Defiance and hope in Hong Kong as police cede streets
AFP, Published on 17/06/2019
» HONG KONG - In the thoroughfare where days ago protesters were fighting running battles, the police are nowhere to be seen, while black-clad protesters mill about on the neon-lit shoreline, enjoying the evening breeze after hours of marching through tropical heat to protest a reviled extradition law.
The science of snooze
Life, Published on 01/03/2018
» It is perhaps no coincidence that the time it takes for a person to complete a five-stage sleep cycle is 90 minutes -- which is also the average duration of a feature film.
'I sold the piano and bought a camera'
Spectrum, Published on 03/12/2017
» Journalism requires taking risks beyond the regular (and sometimes legal) call of duty. When breaking news happens or an injustice is found lurking in the shadows, journalists are often the first ones there to shed light on the stories that impact society's most marginalised. It requires a deep passion for sharing people's stories with the rest of the world.