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From the year of fury to the year of doom?
News, Sawai Boonma, Published on 05/01/2012
» With a 9.0 magnitude earthquake hitting Japan in March, causing vast destruction and leaving nearly 20,000 people killed or missing, 2011 should register as one of the years that the four elements _ earth, air, fire and water _ had unleashed its most destructive fury.
UK-Asean relations for the 21st century
News, Published on 06/01/2012
» Today the idea of a developed West and developing rest is all but irrelevant. Put simply, the world has changed and Britain must too, if we are to prevent our role and influence in international affairs from declining.
A covering that bares one's faith
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 14/01/2012
» For years the mosque in my neighbourhood was registered as "Wat Muang Kae Mosque". The Buddhist temple, Wat Muang Kae, is a cat's meow away from the Islamic house of worship, and the mosque's name, so Thai and so un-Arabic, suggests the presence of interfaith amicability even before the term "interfaith" had any political undertones.
Gitmo no cause for celebration
News, Published on 15/01/2012
» Last Wednesday was the 10th anniversary of the opening of the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention centre for those deemed to be foreign combatants in the nebulous US-led war on terror. Riding a wave of popular outcry against the centre internationally and at home, then-candidate Barack Obama made a pledge to close the facility a keynote of campaign speeches, and soon after he was inaugurated in January 2009 he signed an executive order calling for its closure. Yet in December the US Congress passed a defence funding appropriation bill with a provision that established the legal framework to keep the detention centre open indefinitely. Mr Obama did make some efforts to keep his promise. Not long after US Attorney General Eric Holder announced a plan to hold trials for detainees in US federal courts. To be sure there were considerable obstacles to carrying this out, not least the vehement opposition in communities near where the detainees would be imprisoned while awaiting trial. But despite the difficulties, Mr Obama's first impulses were correct. Guantanamo should have been closed long ago.
Democracy in Thailand stalled since 1932
News, Published on 17/01/2012
» Re: ''Heavyweights battle over lese majeste law'' (BP, Opinion, Jan 16).
Importance of travel alerts
News, Published on 17/01/2012
» Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul was "disappointed" that foreign embassies did not consult him before issuing last weekend's terrorist alert. He should not be.
FM notwithstanding, travel alert was justified
News, Published on 19/01/2012
» Re: ''Importance of travel alerts'' (BP, June 17). I applaud this editorial, it was well-written, thought-out and right on the mark. Bravo!
Cabinet in for a rough ride
News, Published on 20/01/2012
» Even with a newly beefed up cabinet, the Yingluck Shinawatra administration cannot expect to sail easily through the political storms ahead, given the rising political temperature, looming flood threats and weakened international confidence.
Keeping quiet about a threat is truly scary
News, Kultida Samabuddhi, Published on 20/01/2012
» If we kept a record of the most frequently applied rationale the government has employed to justify its action or non-action, then "negative impact on tourism" should top the list.