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Guarding the guards
Oped, Postbag, Published on 11/04/2025
» Re: "Agencies probe causes of building's collapse", (BP, April 9).
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.
Watch carefully
Oped, Postbag, Published on 15/06/2022
» Re: "Bhumjaithai bigwig in hot water over Khao Yai plot," (BP, June 10).
Fight over 'Mockingbird' sequel rights
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 06/03/2022
» In the years since Harper Lee's death in 2016, her 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, has been re-imagined in surprising new ways. It was released as a graphic novel in 2018 and adapted into a hit Broadway production by screenwriter Aaron Sorkin.
Woman on night watch rings in the hour
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 13/02/2022
» From the top of Lausanne's cathedral late at night, Cassandre Berdoz is shouting out, loudly and on the hour, for women's rights in Switzerland, a country that has been a laggard in gender equality.
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).