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The importance of a mother tongue
News, Published on 21/02/2012
» Eight-year-old Soifah Jetsadakraisii was failing second grade. The Chiang Rai native grew up speaking Bisu, one of the hundreds of ethnic minority languages scattered over the mountainous heart of Southeast Asia. The language spoken by the teachers was Thai; to Soifah, a foreign tongue.
Ceasefires killing poppies
News, Published on 19/02/2012
» I am writing to both clarify errors in the Bangkok Post's Sunday Spectrum article, ''Myanmar reforms 'mask meteoric rise in drug trade''' by Phil Thornton and appeal for a problem-solving approach to the challenge of poppy cultivation in Myanmar.
Don't rush to judgement
News, Imtiaz Muqbil, Published on 19/02/2012
» Although the anti-Iran campaign is in full swing, major holes are emerging in the story spun so far.
From baptism by cyclone to a nation's fresh start
News, Published on 17/02/2012
» For the past four years, Myanmar has been high on the agenda of my service as secretary-general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Barely four months into my five-year term, on May 2, 2008 the ferocity of Cyclone Nargis hit the Delta of the Ayyawadi River, including the commercial capital Yangon.
Nothing to gain
News, Published on 13/02/2012
» Since being in opposition, the Democrats have done an admirable job in checking the government's conduct.
Having it their way
News, Published on 11/02/2012
» The red shirts are back again. Jatuporn Prompan talks about an imminent coup and Nattawut Saikuar says that their struggle is to achieve democracy.
KR tribunal suffers crisis of funding
News, Published on 10/02/2012
» With unpaid salaries, demoralised staff and a catalogue of high-profile controversies, observers say Cambodia's Khmer Rouge Tribunal is in crisis.
Veto allows what it sought to prevent: more deaths
News, Published on 10/02/2012
» In vetoing the United Nations Security Council's draft resolution on Syria, China claims that it has acted in the interests of the Syrian people, a position articulated in the People's Daily, the newspaper of the Communist Party's Central Committee, in a commentary appearing under the pen name Zhong Sheng. The characters for "Zhong Sheng" mean the sound of a bell, but they are phonetically the same as "the voice of China". This word play was no accident: the voice of China on this issue is as clear as a bell.
Reminder of Iraq run-up
News, Imtiaz Muqbil, Published on 05/02/2012
» The sabre rattling over an attack on Iran, now in full swing, is following the identical game plan that was mounted before the 2003 attack on Iraq.
Statehood takes a back seat to bogeyman
News, Imtiaz Muqbil, Published on 22/01/2012
» Thailand's recognition of the right to an independent Palestine is a great step forward, but unfortunately it has been overshadowed by the arrest of an Arab man and the surrounding anti-Islam hysteria