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Japan is facing a fiscal dilemma
News, Published on 06/02/2023
» Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida recently unveiled an ambitious plan to double the country's defence budget to ¥43 trillion, roughly 2% of Japan's GDP, over the next five years. Notably, the country's massive rearmament programme, its biggest since the end of World War II, has not triggered a political or public backlash. With Japan facing multiple security threats, including North Korean missile tests, Chinese coast-guard ships encroaching on its territorial waters and Russia's militarisation of the disputed Kuril Islands (known in Japan as the Northern Territories), polls show public support for the proposed increase.
Thailand's Big Brother is upping the ante
Oped, Thana Boonlert, Published on 06/08/2022
» In the late 18th century, British philosopher Jeremy Bentham visited his younger brother, Samuel, in Russia, who arranged unskilled factory workers in a circle so that he could supervise them. Inspired by this principle, Bentham developed "the panopticon", an inspection tower surrounded by cells. Its uniqueness was that it enabled a watchman to monitor prisoners without them knowing they were being watched.
After 600 years of night watchmen, Lausanne gets first watchwoman
AFP, Published on 27/08/2021
» GENEVA: After over 600 years of night watchmen, a woman has for the first time been tasked with shouting out the time each hour through the night from the Lausanne cathedral bell tower.
Follow the money
Oped, Postbag, Published on 26/08/2021
» Re: "Custody death clip sparks storm," (BP, Aug 25).
Pulitzer Board honors teen who filmed George Floyd murder
AFP, Published on 12/06/2021
» NEW YORK - The Pulitzer Prize Board awarded a "special citation" on Friday to the teenager whose video of the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer sparked worldwide protests against racial injustice.
River carnage a crime
Oped, Postbag, Published on 01/10/2020
» Re: "Asean needs to act on Mekong River", (Editorial, Sept 30).
Stealing justice
News, Postbag, Published on 04/08/2020
» Re: "Justice needs salvaging after fatal crash", (BP, Aug 3); "Calls for reform following Boss case", (BP, Aug 2).
Kudos for Prayut
Oped, Postbag, Published on 09/07/2020
» Re: "Reshuffle may not be enough to stop rot", (Opinion, July 7).
Crew members were asleep on doomed California dive boat
AFP, Published on 13/09/2019
» LOS ANGELES: All six crew members were asleep when a fire broke out last week on board a California dive boat, leaving 34 people dead, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday.
Ngbaba, a sport lost in time, returns to battered C. Africa
AFP, Published on 27/08/2019
» BANGUI (CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC) - Two teams confronted each other on the dusty sports field, wielding roughly cut sticks to whack a homemade puck at high speed.