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Pakistan foreign minister arrives in Kabul as Afghan deportations rise
AFP, Published on 19/04/2025
» KABUL - Pakistan's foreign minister arrived Saturday in Afghanistan to meet Taliban officials after his country expelled more than 85,000 Afghans, mostly children, in just over two weeks.
Slanted cartoons
Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/04/2025
» During Donald Trump's first term, the Biden years, and the pre-2024 election run-in, the average Trump media coverage recorded by most media outlets was 93% negative.
Uyghur pressure
Oped, Postbag, Published on 02/04/2025
» Re: "Uyghur trip 'not fake': Thais visit deportees in Xinjiang region", (BP, March 21).
Present from Putin
Oped, Postbag, Published on 22/03/2025
» Re: "Putin call 'a test' of deal-making skill", (World, March 19).
Thai government rejects allegations of staged Uyghur visits
Published on 20/03/2025
» Thai Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai on Thursday dismissed allegations that his visit to Uyghur families in the Xinjiang region of China was staged, stressing that each family participated voluntarily.
‘Up to 100,000’ still working in Myanmar scam hubs
Published on 18/03/2025
» Despite a weeks-long multinational crackdown, scam centres along the Thai-Myanmar border are still operating with up to 100,000 people working there, says the top police general leading Thailand’s operations against the fraud compounds.
Indonesia to question 550 scam-centre returnees
Published on 18/03/2025
» JAKARTA - Indonesian authorities are preparing to question about 550 citizens who began arriving home on Tuesday after being rescued from online scam centres in Myanmar, the largest group of returnees to the country since a multinational crackdown on crime hubs began.
Uyghur beat-up
Postbag, Published on 09/03/2025
» Re: "Govt draws flak for deporting Uyghurs", (BP, March 1).
Explainer - What are Southeast Asia's scam centres, and why are they being dismantled?
Published on 04/03/2025
» Scam centres that operated along the Thai-Myanmar border for years have drawn fresh attention after the high-profile abduction and release of a Chinese actor in Thailand.
Thailand's tense dance of diplomacy
Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 04/03/2025
» Last Thursday evening, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai showed his true colours when he addressed the repatriation of 40 Uyghurs to China. Cool as a cucumber, he spoke with authority yet with an apologetic tone. That day's press conference was his perfect coda; other cabinet ministers were mere decorative artefacts.