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New releases for your streaming pleasure: Aug 9-15
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 09/08/2023
» Looking for a title to binge-watch this weekend? Here's our pick!
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Being gay: where it can lead to prison or even death
Published on 29/11/2022
» As Singapore lifted a colonial-era ban on sex between men while also taking steps to block marriage equality, AFP looks at dozens of countries that still criminalise the LGBTQ community:
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LGBTQ rights across the globe: marriage to the death penalty
Published on 22/08/2022
» Singapore announced on Sunday that it will repeal a law criminalising gay sex but in many other parts of the world homosexuality is illegal and sometimes subject to the death penalty.
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7-time Emmy winner Ed Asner dies age 91
AFP, Published on 30/08/2021
» WASHINGTON: US television actor Ed Asner, winner of a record seven Emmy awards, has died at age 91, his family said Sunday.
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Age-old debate on the world's oldest profession
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 25/11/2020
» Should sex work be considered a crime? Thais have debated this for several decades. Prostitution was legal until the Prevention and Suppression of Prostitution Act was launched in 1960 and later replaced with the current law. Even though 1996 law claimed to protect prostitutes and prevent human trafficking, it had the opposite effect because it still makes sex work illegal.
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When the innocent fall victim
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 19/10/2020
» Two years ago, anti-death penalty advocates were surprised by Thailand's first execution in nine years when 26-year-old Teerasak Longji was executed at Bangkok's Bang Kwang Central Prison by lethal injection for aggravated murder.
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A call for justice
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 09/10/2020
» What would it be like if you spent more than half your life isolated in a tiny cell in fear, not knowing what the future holds? That's exactly what happened to Iwao Hakamada, who every morning woke up thinking today could be his last. Hakamada, a new documentary, tells the heart-rending tale of a death row convict kept in solitary confinement for more than half-a-century before being granted a retrial in 2014.
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Fighting for the defenceless
Life, Published on 02/06/2020
» Treated by its owner as a best friend for years, Nomyen has turned into the subject of an animal abuse debate lately. In a viral video last month, the eight-year-old American Pit Bull Terrier was seen being beaten with a slipper, bags of soil thrown at it, and even being held underwater.
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Love that dare not speak its name
Life, Published on 20/02/2020
» Last month, Opera Siam presented the world premiere of Helena Citronova, a bold new opera written and directed by celebrated Thai composer Somtow Sucharitkul at Thailand Cultural Centre.
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Evil personified
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 10/01/2020
» When the terms genocide and war criminals are mentioned, the connections that usually come to mind are the Third Reich and Nuremberg. Japan too, and the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal. Today a permanent process for prosecuting crimes against humanity has been established at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
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