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Boat saga hard to take
Oped, Editorial, Published on 19/06/2024
» The public has already heard numerous examples of criminal evidence vanishing from police custody but the recent case of three oil-smuggling boats that disappeared from a police pier in Chon Buri is too preposterous to process.
Don't rush Basmati
Oped, Editorial, Published on 21/06/2022
» Saudi Arabia has restored full diplomatic ties with Thailand following more than 30 years of frozen relations. The move has opened up a lot of economic opportunities for both countries ranging from trade, and tourism to labour and agriculture.
UN must act to defuse tensions
News, Editorial, Published on 05/01/2020
» After the killing of Iran's top military commander Maj Gen Qassem Soleimani by the US on Friday morning, the world is gripped with worry over a new round of proxy war between the world power and its arch enemy.
Stop creep of 'full Sharia'
News, Editorial, Published on 11/04/2019
» On Tuesday, an LGBTI group protested outside the Brunei embassy in Bangkok, rallying against the tiny oil-rich nation's imposition on April 3 of full Sharia law, which among other barbaric acts punishes sodomy by stoning offenders to death.
No excuse for Mideast abuse
News, Editorial, Published on 19/03/2019
» The United Nations took a regrettable step on women's rights last week. The Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) picked the Tehran government to sit on its women's rights committee. While there are several countries that truly should not be on this committee, Iran is near or at the top. In the same week that the UNHRC felt Iran should represent women's and children's rights, the UN Special Rapporteur on Iran said that the country was in the midst of a crackdown that, in particular, sentences children to death.
Immigration's poor choices
News, Editorial, Published on 09/01/2019
» A Saudi teenager took "running away from home" to a new level on Sunday when she showed up at Suvarnabhumi airport. What happened next, however, turned into unpleasant farce, with Thailand as villain.
One attack, one setback
News, Editorial, Published on 26/11/2018
» The murderous attack on the Chinese consulate in Karachi highlights the troubles that Beijing faces in selling its keystone international development programme. "One Belt, One Road" began with much scepticism, and 2018 has seen setback after setback. Friday morning's assault on Chinese interests killed two policemen guarding the consulate. The Pakistani separatist group behind the deaths said the Chinese are "exploiting our resources".
Net freedom on the wane
Oped, Editorial, Published on 07/11/2018
» The future of the internet just 20 years ago could not have been rosier. When Thailand logged on, the technology promised and delivered instant communications. Beyond that, the gains are diminishing. The freedom to use the undoubted power of the technological revolution is diminishing. Huge companies and Big Government have inflicted new controls and censorship that were unthinkable in the days of "old media". And the new controls and barriers to internet freedom are multiplying faster than basic access to the internet.
UN tramples its own ideals
News, Editorial, Published on 16/10/2018
» The UN General Assembly has once again openly mocked some of the major principles it purports to champion. It has elected several of the world's worst human rights violators as full members of its Human Rights Commission. In the process, it employed a questionable procedure in which there was no competition. Member countries of the UNGA were presented with 18 candidate-nations for 18 pending vacancies on the UNHRC. In the event, as usual in such UN processes, none of the candidates failed to gain a majority vote, so the 48-member UNHRC will at least have all its seats filled when it meets in Geneva next year.
Optimism for Rohingya
News, Editorial, Published on 16/04/2018
» After months of a mix of cruelty and ineptitude, the Myanmar government has taken a small but possibly significant step on the Rohingya crisis. The Aung San Suu Kyi government has sent its minister of social welfare to Bangladesh. It was noteworthy that during the visit, Win Myat Aye spoke directly with Rohingya refugees and told them they could return to Rakhine state.