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  • OPINION

    PM's book choice baffles nation

    News, Erich Parpart, Published on 04/06/2019

    » When I saw the headline, that Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha had recommended the people he is repressing read George Orwell's Animal Farm, I thought it was fake news from a parody page.

  • THAILAND

    Govt backs Seoul peace plan initiative

    News, Erich Parpart, Published on 01/09/2017

    » Busan, South Korea: Thailand is ready to support South Korea's Berlin Initiative to find a peaceful solution to the simmering tension on the Korean Peninsula amid Pyongyang's escalating missile and nuclear threat, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday.

  • OPINION

    Duterte can run but he can't hide

    Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 25/03/2019

    » Last week the Philippines became the second country in the world to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) after Burundi, which left in 2017. Many observers, myself included, see this as an attempt to evade an investigation into President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly war on drugs, but it is not going to work.

  • OPINION

    Hope for refugee children

    Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 28/01/2019

    » The cause of children's rights got a lift last week when immigration police in Thailand announced that they would stop holding migrant and refugee children in the country's crowded immigration detention facilities.

  • BUSINESS

    'Fake news' and political bullies

    Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 22/01/2018

    » Press freedom in Southeast Asia is taking it on the chin again. In Myanmar, Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe face up to 14 years in jail for reporting on the genocide in Rakhine state, which apparently is an "official secret". In the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte is itching to shut down a news website that has been critical of his government.

  • OPINION

    The curse of corruption

    Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 30/01/2017

    » Lately we are hearing more about corruption scandals across Asia and, sadly, we will probably be hearing more. The mother of them all is the long-running saga of 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), one of the world's largest white-collar crimes.

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