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Boom days gone, but rubber planters have a point
Published on 27/08/2013
» Protesting rubber growers blocked the Bangkok railway line in Nakhon Si Thammarat on Monday night, forcing at least three trains and their unhappy passengers to return to Hat Yai. The main southern highway also remains blocked in the same province, bringing through traffic in both directions to a complete halt.
Reform, or just for show?
News, Published on 27/08/2013
» Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has opened her great experiment to promote national unity. She presided over the first meeting of the political reform forum on Sunday. Several ex-prime ministers attended, and the forum has many more sessions to run. Next week, foreign participants will weigh in with their ideas of national reconciliation. But there is a very uncomfortable feel of smoke and mirrors in the air.
Asian defence talks take modest turn
News, Published on 27/08/2013
» The Asean Defence Ministers Meeting-Plus (ADMM-Plus), which includes the 10 Asean countries along with Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Russia, and the United States, will meet in Bandar Seri Begawan on Thursday.
US spying fallout puts tech firms at risk
News, Published on 27/08/2013
» In a 2011 report, which was declassified on Wednesday, then Chief Judge John Bates of the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court expressed concern at US government surveillance programmes. He asserted that "the volume and nature of the information [that was being collected as of 2011] is fundamentally different from what the court had been led to believe".
Your cheating hat
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 27/08/2013
» Let us not deny that cheating in school does have its own kind of special appeal. There's the thrill of finding out that the knowledge source next to us is holding the exact same exam, the satisfaction from getting plenty of information from just one quick, stealthy glance, the sense of gratitude when the smart ones don't abandon us and care enough to send a few helpful signals our way, and the utter joy when our marks turn out to be among the highest even though all we did the night before the exam was watch porn online.