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The absurdity of criminalising whistle blowing
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 19/11/2013
» Blowing a whistle as a symbol of protest or civil disobedience is not just trendy in the current tense political climate, it has also become a contentious legal issue.
US TPP is not in our interest
News, Published on 19/11/2013
» It has been a year since US President Barack Obama came to Bangkok to try to talk Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra into joining his Pacific trade initiative. The effort came to naught, and this has proved to be a good thing. The few details emerging from secret negotiations show that the misnamed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is not in Thailand's best interest. Our neighbours, trying to help Mr Obama put together a treaty, should continue to reject many of the US demands.
Postbag: PM gives no choices
News, Published on 19/11/2013
» Re ''Charter ruling set to stoke fires'', (BP, Nov 18).
For the world's poor, climate change is terrorism
News, Published on 19/11/2013
» As part of the pivot to Asia, the United States government has ramped up its counterterrorism cooperation with the Philippines, Indonesia and elsewhere. But the bigger question from the perspective of the Filipinos, beyond the disaster at hand, is this: Why is it that the US still doesn't have a domestic consensus that there is such a thing as climate change?
Life is sweet - too sweet
Life, Sukhumaporn Laiyok, Published on 19/11/2013
» Looking back on past decades, there was a war on fat. We were educated to wean ourselves off fat in our diet to reduce the risk of heart disease.