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Top diplomat quits ‘whitewash’ Rohingya refugee panel
Associated Press, Published on 25/01/2018
» YANGON: Former New Mexico Gov Bill Richardson has resigned from an advisory panel on the massive Rohingya refugee crisis, calling it a “whitewash and a cheerleading operation” for Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Pheu Thai demands NACC cancel 2013 amnesty probe
News, Post Reporters, Published on 26/01/2018
» A group of Pheu Thai Party members is gunning to cancel a graft probe into 40 ex-lawmakers from the party in relation to an amnesty bill put to the House five years ago that critics say was designed to support ousted ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
All in it together
News, Published on 27/01/2018
» After months of anxiety about the Democrat Party splitting up ahead of the next general election, it may be trying to pull itself together and make a pact to remain undivided.
Look at your own backyards
News, Postbag, Published on 28/01/2018
» Re: "Diplomats slam poll delay", (BP, Jan 27).
Born in blood, Myanmar's army prospers
New York Times, Published on 29/01/2018
» YANGON: For Myanmar's army, the campaign of atrocity it has waged to drive hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya Muslims out of the country is no innovation. The force was born in blood 76 years ago and has been shedding it ever since.
Toward global compacts on refugees and migrants
Asia focus, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 29/01/2018
» 2018 is a significant year for the global community to converge on two commitments: the Global Compact on Refugees and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. The seeds for these agreements were sown in 2016 when leaders adopted the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants which called for an international framework for cooperation by 2018. The current momentum is to adopt such compacts in the latter half of 2018, and Thailand has been completing a round of discussions as potential inputs.
PM urges haste for parking plans
News, Post Reporters, Published on 29/01/2018
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has ordered projects for underground parking areas in and around Bangkok to get a hurry-up while hoping to draw local and foreign investors to join, a Government House source said.
Surakiart says Myanmar panel won’t help jailed reporters
Reuters, Published on 29/01/2018
» YANGON: Myanmar's panel of international advisers on Rohingya issues will not get involved in the case of two Reuters journalists charged with violating the Official Secrets Act, its chairman told a state newspaper in an interview published on Monday.
Tremendous trombone
Life, Harry Rolnick, Published on 30/01/2018
» 'Never look directly at a trombone player," said the great composer Richard Strauss. "It only encourages them." Then again, the German composer was hardly being honest about an instrument which Felix Mendelssohn called "the most sacred and noble instrument in the orchestra".
State enterprises spend big
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri and Darana Chudasri, Published on 30/01/2018
» State enterprises drew down 18 billion baht or 4% of this year's investment expenditure target, during the three months to December.