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    Anti-coup crackdown takes fatal turn

    News, Larry Jagan, Published on 01/03/2021

    » Myanmar's security forces have unleashed a concerted crackdown on the country's peaceful protesters leaving 23 dead and thousands injured throughout the country in the last two days. In planned pre-emptive strikes, the police moved ruthlessly to disperse and arrest protestors preparing to join yesterday general strike. "They used teargas, stun grenades and fired live ammunition indiscriminately into the crowds," said Soe Soe, a young university student at a protest site told the Bangkok Post.

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    Bureaucracy still baffles

    News, Published on 25/07/2021

    » All the requirements of bureaucracy in this country have not changed in more than 100 years.

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    Ethnic armies fight for a federal future

    Oped, Larry Jagan, Published on 07/04/2021

    » Myanmar's ethnic armies have effectively declared war on the country's military government, increasing the prospect of civil war. In the face of the army's continued violence against civilian protesters -- the death toll is now more than 600 in the last nine weeks -- many of the country's ethnic leaders felt impelled to take drastic action.

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    In Zimbabwe, literature is protest

    Oped, Published on 10/10/2020

    » In November 2017, when a military coup removed Robert Mugabe as Zimbabwe's head of state after 37 years of rule, euphoria gripped the whole country. Many saw it as an end to "the house of hunger" -- the title of a widely read 1978 novel by Dambudzo Marechera that described the people's suffering under tyranny.

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    Arkhom risks facing a losing battle

    Oped, Published on 08/10/2020

    » After a month of waiting, Thailand now has a new finance minister -- Arkhom Termpittayapaisith. Thais and the business community have high hopes for the new minister's ability to help stimulate the sagging economy and steer the country's economy out of the Covid-19 crisis.

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    Is AI out for your job?

    Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 29/05/2023

    » Science fiction is an ideal genre for people who wonder about, hope or fear for what can become real one day. One of the most famous themes in this genre is a dystopian future where technology develops malicious intent, and decides to take over the world with catastrophic consequences for humanity. While we're still not there yet, fiction is no longer fiction, and such wild imaginings have become reality, or at least some of them.

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    The path to poverty in Thailand

    Oped, Peerasit Kamnuansilpa, Published on 20/01/2021

    » Thailand has had an interesting journey to its current ranking of sixth in the world, and first in Asia, in income inequality, as cited by the World Population Review. The country has historically been a patronage society, where the upper echelons of society are expected to look after those who are underprivileged.

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    Adam Smith 300 years later

    Oped, Published on 30/06/2023

    » This year marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of Adam Smith, the founding father of modern economics. It comes at a time when the global economy faces several daunting challenges.

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    How Putin's war ended dream of another Russia

    Oped, Published on 25/02/2023

    » It has now been a year since Russia, my birthplace, invaded Ukraine. For 365 days, we have been waking up to news of Russian missile strikes, bombings, murders, torture and rape. It has been 365 days of shame and confusion, of wanting to turn away but needing to know what is happening, of watching Russians become "ruscists", "Orks" or "putinoids". For 365 days, the designation "Russian-American", previously straightforward, has felt like a contradiction in terms.

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    What Wagner's revolt means to Putin's war

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 26/06/2023

    » The Don is a much bigger river than the Rubicon, but Yevgeny Prigozhin and his army crossed it anyway on Friday.

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