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    Seeking politics of solidarity under Putin's regime

    News, Published on 18/03/2024

    » In 2013, when I was 13, one of the oldest comedy TV programmes in Russia released a sketch in which a group of musicians performed a version of Queen's I Want to Break Free satirising the country.

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    Leaping lizards on a Sunday afternoon

    Roger Crutchley, Published on 10/03/2024

    » Last Sunday I was sitting on the garden porch of my Bangkok abode grappling with the crossword and watching the birds hopping around the garden. My wife, who was away in Chaiyaphum, had just called and I had reassured her that everything was fine and very tranquil... a perfect Sunday afternoon.

  • OPINION

    Time to stop bullying

    Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 13/03/2023

    » Images of students being bullied in school resurfaced following the worldwide premiere of The Glory, a 16-episode series which shines a spotlight on bullying, the dark side of wealth and power, as well as the importance of good parenting.

  • OPINION

    Youth strike fear into old, cold hearts

    News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 08/10/2016

    » We can imagine the scene: Twenty policemen mobbed a 19-year-old boy arriving at the airport immigration. They took him to the detention quarters and kept him there, refusing communication, and consequently sent the entire world into a manhunt frenzy. Where's Joshua Wong? What has he done? Or more directly to the heart of the midnight stealth: What did the Thai authorities fear? Why did the mighty state have to send 20 officers -- not five, not 10, but 20 -- to whiz away a skinny boy on a red-eye flight? A boy whom I bet never won a fist-fight in his high-school yard.

  • OPINION

    Talking about sex, meth and other 'taboos'

    News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 23/06/2016

    » How comfortable are we letting our teenage children sit next to a former drug addict in a classroom, or socialising with a female colleague who openly speaks of having an abortion, or congratulating our former high school for installing condom dispensers? No, many of us would not be at ease with such ideas.

  • OPINION

    Halloween tragedy tests Seoul's unpopular leader

    News, Published on 03/11/2022

    » A nightmarish disaster whose victims were predominantly the young. A right-of-centre leader whose popularity is sliding. A political flashpoint potentially in the making once the nation absorbs the tragedy.

  • OPINION

    Migrants seek better times close to home

    Oped, Thana Boonlert, Published on 07/01/2022

    » Carrying a large rucksack, I bought a ticket and walked into a crowded bus terminal in Ekamai where thousands of passengers, wearing face masks, were counting down the clock to return home for the long holidays. The vast station was packed as New Year drew closer. When I got on the bus, a familiar luk thung song was being played, evoking memories.

  • OPINION

    Hairy situation

    Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 10/07/2020

    » Schools are back in session and so is the debate over the student hairstyle. A new batch of pictures of students whose hair got cut or shaved poorly against their will, as a form of punishment, by their teachers has been recently circulated online. We're probably getting another set once the next hair inspection day comes. Last Friday, student activists submitted a petition to the Ministry of Education asking for clarity over the hairstyle rule. You see, the ministry has already allowed students to wear their hair long so long as it's neat and complies with other conditions. However, a few schools still take it upon themselves to cut students' hair that they deem "inappropriate".

  • OPINION

    Democratic flame is on a knife's edge

    News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 15/06/2019

    » We thought we were creeping back to democracy. We thought we were regaining our freedoms. After all, we have just welcomed a new government which has tried to convince the world that it came to power by democratic means.

  • OPINION

    The kids are all right

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 28/10/2018

    » <i>Prathet Ku Mee</i> is no slapped-together concert song. It wasn't made, so much as crafted. The accusatory lyrics are set against the shameful, hovering background of the 1976 dictators' massacre at Thammasat University. The rap song's finale brings the background image of the hanged, beaten student to the front of the picture, before fading out to the hopeful message, "All people unite".

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