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    Giving us a break?

    Oped, Published on 26/06/2021

    » There were five PostBag letters on June 24. Not one of them was from Felix Qui, Burin Kantabutra, Kuldeep Nagi or Eric Bahrt. Was it because they didn't write any or because the PostBag Editor finally decided to give readers a break from those guys?

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    Clueless 'teachers'

    News, Postbag, Published on 22/12/2016

    » Re: "New minister sets five-year timeline to fix teacher crisis", (BP, Dec 21).

  • News & article

    Resettlement plan a sham

    News, Editorial, Published on 13/12/2017

    » Myanmar's government has unveiled a plan to repatriate Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh. In essence, the government of Aung San Suu Kyi, in what is known as a "phased return", will allow some returnees, beginning early next year, but not to their original villages, homes and land. It will build camps to "resettle" the Rohingya indefinitely. As the United Nations' refugee organisation and key international groups have said, the plan is unacceptable.

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    Porn on the streets

    News, Postbag, Published on 26/03/2022

    » Along Sukhumvit Road from Nana junction towards Asoke are many roadside shops selling sex toys, pornographic movies and related items.

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    Why get so sour about Madam Choops' sweets?

    Oped, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 01/05/2021

    » Call me blasphemous, but my first reaction to the desserts in the shape of Buddha amulets -- now a matter of public frenzy -- was: So what?

  • News & article

    A paragon of virtues

    News, Postbag, Published on 31/12/2017

    » As Pliny the Younger noted, "Example [is] the surest method of instruction."

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    Stop sadistic hazing rituals

    News, Editorial, Published on 05/12/2015

    » Despite concerted attempts by education authorities to root out hazing, new and more violent forms of initiation activities keep on surfacing. It is clear all parties concerned including youngsters themselves must unite in making the practice completely unacceptable.

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    Sudan: Thieves fall out and the people suffer

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 18/04/2023

    » It's a pity that both sides can't lose in the war that broke out between rival generals in Sudan on Saturday, but the best that the 48 million Sudanese can hope for now is that one side loses quickly. Beyond that, it's all bad: the rival generals both want to strangle the democratic revolution that began in Khartoum four years ago.

  • News & article

    It's just common sense!

    News, Postbag, Published on 08/01/2023

    » Re: "Too lax on Covid curbs?" (Editorial, Jan 6).

  • News & article

    Reviving a regional approach to the Rohingya

    Oped, Published on 08/09/2021

    » More than four years have passed since Myanmar security forces began "clearance operations" targeting ethnic Rohingya in Myanmar's northern Rakhine State. Purportedly a response to attacks by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), an ethnic insurgent group, these operations were the culmination of mounting rights abuses and restrictions disproportionately directed at Rohingya communities. More than 40% of area villages were partially or completely destroyed, and Rohingya were displaced on a scale not seen since the 1970s. In the two weeks following the start of clearance operations, more than 300,000 Rohingya crossed into Bangladesh seeking refuge. By the end of 2017, that figure had more than doubled.

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