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PAD protests went too far
News, Editorial, Published on 14/02/2019
» From what began as peaceful street protests against the powerful Thaksin Shinawatra government in 2006, the now-defunct yellow-shirt People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) movement got out of control in the following years. It leaders then resorted to extremism and violence, sexed up by hate speech.
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Time to take climate action
News, Editorial, Published on 18/12/2018
» The 24th Conference of the Parties to the UN climate change framework (COP24) has ended. With a certain direct sense of irony, it was held in Katowice, Poland, the centre of coal production in eastern Europe. The achievements of the two weeks of meetings, extended past its deadline as usual, are still being assessed. Many key decisions were put off for yet another huge COP, already scheduled to begin in 11 months.
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Censorship must go
News, Editorial, Published on 14/05/2018
» In a move criticised across all political and legal lines, the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) has once again banned all broadcasts by Peace TV. The station is openly run and just as openly favours the red shirts and their political face, the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship, or UDD. Every Thai media, print and broadcast, blasted the blatant and poorly thought out act of censorship.
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City in ruins, IS still a threat
News, Editorial, Published on 13/06/2017
» The disgraceful story of Marawi City in the southern Philippines is an embarrassment to the country's president, Rodrigo Duterte. But it is a threat to Asean neighbours, including Thailand. Southeast Asia today is not only a target of the Islamic State (IS) but an actual threat which could, and should, have been avoided.
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Meeting our climate goals
News, Editorial, Published on 16/12/2015
» The climate change conference that just ended in France was a success. Nearly 200 countries have agreed on procedures that aim to keep a mean temperature within 1.5 degrees Celsius of that which existed before the industrial era. This is an ambitious goal that will require inventive means and, probably, sacrifices. A celebration took place at the start of the week, but the Conference of Parties (COP21) in Paris was not an end in itself.
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