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Monastic discipline in the digital age
Oped, Watcharin Ariyaprakai, Published on 23/07/2025
» At a time when Thai society is reeling from scandals in the monastic community -- from leaked audio clips of money transfers via apps to secret relationships with women -- we are not merely shocked that "monks have done wrong", but rather at how swiftly the "image of purity" we've long upheld has collapsed.
No-show Prawit
Oped, Postbag, Published on 05/10/2024
» Re: "Call to probe Prawit absences", (BP, Sept 26).
Sexual taboos confront Pakistan
Oped, Imran Khalid, Published on 07/10/2022
» Since early last month when Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan of Jamaat-e-Islami, a staunch religious party, proposed the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights amend the Transgender Protection Act of 2018, Pakistan's social and mainstream media swarmed with heated debate on the subject.
Earn your keep
News, Published on 18/07/2022
» Re: "District polls may backfire", (Editorial, July 13).
Castration bull
News, Postbag, Published on 17/07/2022
» Re: "Senate backs voluntary castration bill", (BP, July 13).
Setting bad examples
News, Postbag, Published on 03/01/2020
» In response to the justice minister's reckless reaction to the call for harsher punishments for rape -- a popular and understandable knee-jerk reaction, given what Thais have been under for so many years -- the Post covers the relevant points well in "A barbaric misstep" (Editorial, Jan 1). If rape could be easily eradicated by implementing draconian legal measures or violent punishments, it would have been solved long ago.
A barbaric misstep
News, Editorial, Published on 01/01/2020
» Supporters of harsher penalties for rape greet each fresh case of serious sexual assault with demands for a new law that inflicts severe punishment such as the death penalty on culprits.