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Taekwondo is not for the weak
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 23/07/2014
» Long before the invasion of Korean soap operas, K-Pop and Samsung devices, Korean culture’s presence was felt in Thailand in the form of taekwondo.
Condolences and rumours
Life, James Hein, Published on 23/07/2014
» I want to start out this week by offering Microsoft server administrators by heartfelt condolences for their future. I recently remote-logged onto Windows Server 2012 and immediately thought I’d made a mistake when I was presented with a Windows 8-like screen.
Rethink new drug war
News, Published on 23/07/2014
» The new war on drugs promised by the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) has got under way. It looks a lot like the old war on drugs. Police held briefings and staged photo opportunities for the media after weekend operations in Rayong and Surin provinces. They identified 14 men and women arrested, and showed several thousand speed tablets and packets of ya ice, or crystal meth. It was not a particularly impressive reboot of a renewed campaign to suppress illicit drugs.
One step closer to global disaster
News, Jeffrey D Sachs, Published on 23/07/2014
» Karl Marx famously wrote that history repeats itself, “the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce”. Yet when we look around nowadays, we can’t help but wonder whether tragedy will be followed by yet more tragedy.
Volunteers, locals should lead Asia’s HIV battle
News, Published on 23/07/2014
» Twenty-six-year-old Laxmi never imagined she would grow up to be a heroine. When she was 14, she ran away from a miserable childhood in her remote, mountainous village in Nepal and tried to find work as a singer in the country’s third largest city Pokhara. But instead of stardom, Laxmi fell into prostitution and joined the many thousands of Nepali women working in the country’s flourishing sex industry.
Who do we believe about energy reform?
News, Published on 23/07/2014
» The Thai public is caught in the middle of an information war between two groups of energy reform advocates. Each side presents contradictory views and, sometimes, information. Be it the size of the country’s estimated gas reserves; the integrity of the current gas exploration and production concession; the fairness of the gas and petroleum pricing structure; or the pricing of petroleum at import parity. The public, including me, is thus confused and wonder who they should believe?
Teaching our children how to kowtow
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 23/07/2014
» No sooner had the sounds of military marches died down after the May 22 coup than the Education Ministry ordered all schools to play patriotic songs to please the junta.