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Tip of the iceberg
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 14/01/2018
» Myanmar's government and entirely out-of-touch military soiled themselves again, over the Rohingya issue of course.
Pakistani father of slain girl blames police for slow action
Associated Press, Published on 11/01/2018
» LAHORE, Pakistan: The father of an 8-year-old Pakistani girl whose rape and killing shocked the nation accused the police on Thursday of being slow to respond when his daughter went missing in eastern Punjab province.
Indonesia struggles with human trafficking networks
Asia focus, Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata, Published on 08/01/2018
» Tyas Weningsih Putri left her village in Kendal, Central Java in August 2016 to try her luck for a second time as a migrant worker in Malaysia.
Bowing to bad tradition
News, Published on 11/08/2017
» Re: "Thailand 4.0 not quite as we imagined", (Opinion, Aug 8).
Float school fees fan
News, Postbag, Published on 24/06/2017
» Re: "Wealth for education", (PostBag, June 22).
The battle for Marawi
Asia focus, Published on 12/06/2017
» On a Tuesday afternoon just under three weeks ago, a flash mob of heavily armed militants took to the streets in the southern Philippine city of Marawi. Anxious and uncertain, residents peered out their windows, recording the men with smartphones as more emerged from homes where they had laid in waiting. What Marawi's citizens saw next would horrify the world.
Open season on IS
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 27/04/2017
» Though the president of the United States is a character in more than a few novels, he is a product of the authors' imaginations and bears little if any resemblance to the actual incumbents. In some stories he's idealised, in others vilified.
Two wives, one husband
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 17/03/2017
» For multi-millennia, marriage has been about possession. Hands of he/she belong to me. To be sure, in most societies the husband got the best of it as the wife's belongings became his. Why else wed? Well-to-do widows, with both her and her late spouse's goods in her hands, were the prize catch.
Advocates want equality for lesbians
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 20/01/2017
» Thai society has yet to understand, respect, and treat people who are different based on gender and ethnic identities in a way which would prevent hate speech and eventually hate crimes, according to gender diversity advocates.
Rocky Saudi Arabia ties likely to ease
News, Prangthong Jitcharoenkul, Published on 13/10/2016
» Thailand and Saudi Arabia have pledged to normalise ties after a strained patch which has lasted more than 20 years, Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai says.