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Donor funding crisis goes global
News, Published on 21/05/2025
» Towards the end of the ancient Indian epic the Mahabharata, Krishna's Yadava clan self-destructs. Many dark omens presage their downfall: nature behaves erratically and pests multiply. Sin, deception, and violence proliferate, eroding trust and solidarity. Clan members humiliate and insult wise elders. When Krishna's extended family goes on a picnic, the men get drunk, argue, and attack each other, until eventually all of them are dead.
Agents of change
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 21/05/2025
» Awash with saturated colour and steeped in Brazil's history of authoritarianism, Kleber Mendoça Filho's The Secret Agent has emerged as a serious contender for the Palme d'Or. A former film critic, programmer and now a leading voice in Brazilian cinema, Mendoça Filho's fourth feature -- and his third in Cannes Competition -- is a political thriller, a tribute to disappeared dissidents, and a deft ode to the way memory is passed through time and technology.
Trump signs bill cracking down on deepfake revenge porn
Bloomberg News, Published on 20/05/2025
» WASHINGTON — United States President Donald Trump signed a bill to force social media companies to remove non-consensual sharing of explicit sexual imagery online, calling it a "horribly wrong" situation.
Laughable justice
Oped, Postbag, Published on 20/05/2025
» Re: "Justice must ditch the glitz", (Editorial, May 13).
Moscow: No Putin-Zelensky talks until truce deal is made
AFP, Published on 17/05/2025
» KYIV - The Kremlin on Saturday said a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would be possible only after both sides reach an agreement, a day after after Moscow and Kyiv held their first direct talks in more than three years, which did not result in a truce.
Late referrals hurt the sick, group warns
Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 16/05/2025
» A civic network has submitted a formal petition to the Ministry of Public Health, calling for urgent action to address delays in the issuance of patient referral documents for universal healthcare subscribers.
Coalition still united, insists PM
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 14/05/2025
» Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra yesterday gave assurances that the coalition government remained united and dismissed rumours of a House dissolution.
Green energy has become a pricey delusion
Oped, Bjorn Lomborg, Published on 13/05/2025
» Ask families in Germany and the UK what happens when more and more supposedly cheap solar and wind power is added to the national power mix, and they can tell you by looking at their utility bills: it gets far more expensive. This goes against everything that we're being told. Green energy is supposed to be incredibly cheap. But we're not hearing the real story.
PAO member, henchmen charged after polling booth assault
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 12/05/2025
» A member of the Songkhla Provincial Administration Organisation (PAO) and six followers are accused of beating up a policeman who told them not to take photos during voting at a polling station on Sunday, police said on Monday.
Ambassador denies Russian hashish smuggler arrived from Bhutan
Online Reporters, Published on 12/05/2025
» Bhutanese ambassador to Bangkok Kinzang Dorji has denied that a Russian suspected of smuggling hashish to the full moon party island of Koh Phangan obtained it in Bhutan.