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More countries should make assisted dying legal
News, Published on 17/07/2014
» Ever watched a loved one die in a hospital bed, insensate from morphine, hands that made dinner, earned the rent, wiped away tears and raised a child bruised and swollen after one too many stabbings to find a vein?
Reveal all on US spying
News, Published on 16/07/2014
» From the moment of the first revelations of America's intrusive worldwide spy network last year, it seemed inevitable that Thailand would appear in the reports. And now it has.
Postbag: Expats treated badly
News, Published on 05/07/2014
» The attitude towards migrants proposed in the July 4 editorial, “Boost image, help migrants”, could well be applied to resident expatriates who are legally married to Thais.
Boost image, help migrants
News, Published on 04/07/2014
» One good thing has emerged from the sudden exodus of Cambodian migrant workers after the coup. It shocked the country into realising the importance of foreign migrant labour to the national economy. Had some 2-3 million workers from Myanmar followed suit, the country’s economy, flagging from protracted political conflicts, would have collapsed.
China criticises Japan's move to expand military role
AFP, Published on 03/07/2014
» BEIJING - China's government and media launched a broadside Wednesday against Japan's move to loosen the bonds on its powerful military, casting it as a threat to Asian security.
Japan PM says military shift of historic significance
AFP, Published on 02/07/2014
» Japan's prime minister has likened the relaxation of strict rules on the country's military to the seismic shift of the Meiji Restoration -- a moment widely understood as the birth of the modern nation -- a report said.
Police arrest 500 after Hong Kong protest
AFP, Published on 02/07/2014
» HONG KONG - Hong Kong police arrested more than 500 protesters at a sit-in early Wednesday following a huge pro-democracy rally that organisers said mobilised half a million people demanding the right to choose their next leader.
Vaccines have low risk of serious side effects: study
AFP, Published on 01/07/2014
» Some childhood vaccines are linked to serious side effects, but they are quite rare and do not include autism, food allergies or cancer, said a review of scientific literature Tuesday.
This tradeoff hurts us all
News, Published on 01/07/2014
» Several months back, we argued that the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) was the worst trade deal ever. That was based on revelations published by the WikiLeaks website that seemed to indicate the US-led TPP negotiations were actually a collusion among a dozen Pacific countries to subvert current trade regulations, boost the prestige of big US corporations and spring on it the world’s biggest trade region without a public hearing or debate.
Don't lash out at West
Oped, Published on 28/06/2014
» Ongoing campaigns to boycott products from Europe, the United States and Australia to retaliate against the downgrading of relations with Thailand are counter-productive.