Showing 1 - 7 of 7
Prejudice fuels border birth row
Editorial, Published on 05/01/2025
» A public uproar erupted before the year-end over claims on social media that public hospitals along the Thai-Myanmar border are being overwhelmed by pregnant women from Myanmar seeking to give birth in Thailand.
Elections and old ties grip SE Asia
News, Editorial, Published on 23/10/2022
» The Southeast Asian region is entering election mode -- starting with the upcoming snap election in Malaysia next month, followed by the national election next year in Thailand, which is tentatively set for May, and Cambodia's poll in July.
Path to peace needs respect
Oped, Editorial, Published on 05/05/2022
» The relatively calm Ramadan in the restive deep South reminds us that peaceful dialogue, not arm-twisting or fighting battles, is the real recipe for ending conflicts.
Muslim sweep a disgrace
News, Editorial, Published on 21/09/2019
» In the wake of a series of bomb incidents in Bangkok and Nonthaburi last month that were blamed on Muslim suspects, the police have come up with a new "intelligence" mission that appears to constitute both outright discrimination and pure prejudice against a minority group of Thai youth.
PM, a plan and a canal
News, Editorial, Published on 31/10/2018
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has taken the right steps over the latest resurrection of the Kra Canal. But that doesn't mean he's going to get much support or win over public opinion on the matter. By ordering two new studies into updated proposals for building the canal, he will get criticism from both sides. Proponents of what they want to call the "Thai Canal" think he is taking too long and opponents of the proposal believe he should do nothing.
An election of hope
News, Editorial, Published on 11/05/2018
» Malaysian voters finally did it! So did the opposition coalition known as Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Hope), which on Wednesday managed to overcome racial differences and break the six-decade dominance of the United Malay National Organisation (Umno) at the polls.
Southern comfort
News, Editorial, Published on 06/03/2018
» A visit to several restive provinces in the deep South by a delegation from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) was more successful than anyone expected.