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Don't court disaster
Life, Published on 07/08/2012
» Social media has come a long way since it began with the offer to come over and take a look at the first cave painting. More recently the written letter was the medium of choice, followed by the postcard, holiday snaps and slide nights. Then came the internet and over the past decade or so the focus has shifted from individual emails to a broader audience.
Sending the right signal
News, Published on 01/08/2012
» The death sentences handed down on Monday to three ex-policemen who tortured and murdered a teenager 12 years ago should send several messages to both the public and to other officials who scoff at the rule of law. The Criminal Court verdict gives the maximum sentence to the three men. They violated the public trust in the most reprehensible manner imaginable. They clearly thought they were so far above the law that they had the power of life and death.
Another lost IP Day coming
News, Published on 25/04/2012
» Tomorrow is arguably the least auspicious day with great potential importance for Thailand and most of the world. World IP Day is the poorly concocted idea of the World Intellectual Property Organisation. Wipo, as it is generally known, is charged the duty to educate and help to enforce protection of copyright, trademarks and the like around the world. It has no official status inside any United Nations member country, but it has generally failed to live up even to its minimal standards of helping to protect intellectual, cultural and national property pretty much everywhere.
Keep your shirt on, please
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 22/04/2012
» Our thanks to Sgt Nop and the eagle-eyed boys in Ayutthaya's police force for livening up what had been a boring week by pouncing on a topless transvestite at the Songkran celebrations. Well, OK, they didn't exactly pounce, or even swoop.
Fresh doubts hit Myanmar
News, Published on 26/03/2012
» The eyes of the world have frequently been on Myanmar over the past 50 years, but seldom as hopefully as this week. On Sunday, Southeast Asia's most recent abusive dictatorship will hold by-elections. Prominent among the candidates is Aung San Suu Kyi, the very model of a modern democrat. Until recently, Myanmar authorities banned, barred, abused and imprisoned her in their effort to keep democracy and accountability at bay. The new government is risking a lot by the way it is conducting the coming elections.
Drugs fuel descent into hopelessness in far South
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 15/03/2012
» Rofiah used to believe her traditional village in the far South was the best and safest place for her sons to grow up as good Muslims. Not anymore.
Kittiratt blathers on
News, Published on 25/02/2012
» Re: ''Kittiratt urges mindset change'' (BP, Feb 24).
Conspiracy of errors has saved Bangkok thus far
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 16/02/2012
» Thailand continues to play a bit role in the Mideast conflict and, as the Valentine's Day bomb debacle in Bangkok has shown, the country also seems to attract mostly second-string operatives in the violence.
No end to the years of agony
News, Published on 07/02/2012
» Another sad anniversary of the violence in the deep South has passed _ quietly, as if the authorities were ashamed to mention it, as indeed they should be. More than eight years of combatting one of the very few active insurgencies in the world has produced a battlefield stalemate, but a continuing and murderous situation.