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Prime minister, exile and now prisoner: Thai power broker Thaksin’s new chapter
New York Times, Published on 12/09/2025
» A year ago, Thaksin Shinawatra’s astonishing resurgence to power in Thailand seemed complete. One of his daughters had just been elected prime minister. And he was flaunting his influence, giving speeches on his “vision for Thailand.”
Yes, ambassadors can get away with murder
New York Times, Published on 19/10/2024
» LONDON - On Monday, the Canadian government accused India's high commissioner, the equivalent of an ambassador in Commonwealth countries, and five other diplomats of participating in a vast criminal conspiracy that used homicide and extortion to silence critics of India living in Canada.
Global brands find it hard to untangle themselves from Xinjiang cotton
New York Times, Published on 06/04/2021
» Faced with accusations that it was profiting from the forced labour of Uyghur people in the Chinese territory of Xinjiang, the H&M Group — the world’s second-largest clothing retailer — promised last year to stop buying cotton from the region.
China trying to obscure origin of Covid pandemic, say researchers
New York Times, Published on 07/12/2020
» NEW YORK: The mild-mannered German scientist Alexander Kekulé never anticipated becoming a Chinese propaganda star, but the director of the Institute for Biosecurity Research in Halle has been all over the state-run media in China in recent days.
Born in blood, Myanmar's army prospers
New York Times, Published on 29/01/2018
» YANGON: For Myanmar's army, the campaign of atrocity it has waged to drive hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya Muslims out of the country is no innovation. The force was born in blood 76 years ago and has been shedding it ever since.