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A turning point for clean cooking
Oped, Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak & Joseph Nganga, Published on 15/05/2024
» For most of her life, Florence Auma Ode cooked over an open fire in her Kenyan home. The resulting smoke coated the walls with a layer of soot and filled her lungs -- and those of her family members -- with particulate matter.
Endless Thai cycle
Oped, Postbag, Published on 31/10/2020
» Six years ago, with violence on the streets, [the kind that is] normally stopped by police in other countries, the military decided not only to stop the aggression but to take over the government.
Linked in isolation
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 27/04/2020
» It has been over a month of staying in and working from home in order to save ourselves and the country from being badly hit by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Turkey's anxious Erdogan takes on the world
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/02/2020
» Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not an "Islamist", in the extreme sense of the word. He doesn't wear a suicide vest, he doesn't behead people, he doesn't even go around holding one finger up in the air to signify his hatred of those who fail to acknowledge the One True God. But he certainly does like the Islamists a lot.
Don't drag on Araibi case
News, Editorial, Published on 15/01/2019
» The government should reconsider the continued detention of the refugee Hakeem al-Araibi, known as the refugee football player. He is being held without bail at Bangkok Remand Prison as a flight risk, while authorities from Bahrain attempt to extradite him. There is little compelling evidence to send him to a dangerous and possibly violent fate in that country. On the other hand, there are strong reasons to free him to return to Australia, where he has lived for four years in asylum while working towards citizenship.
Thailand must release al-Araibi
News, Elaine Pearson, Published on 11/01/2019
» Every year, Thailand welcomes thousands of newlyweds on tourism packages, promising a once in a lifetime experience. Little did a Pascoe Vale Football Club player and former Bahrain national team member Hakeem al-Araibi and his bride realise when they left Melbourne on their honeymoon that Thailand would send a squad of police to arrest him as he got off the plane and threaten to send him to Bahrain, where he faces torture and wrongful imprisonment.
Dubai the model of a modern Middle East economy
News, Matthew Winkler, Published on 16/01/2018
» For more than 100 years, the Middle East has been defined by oil exploration, production and its boundaries. Now the region is getting re-purposed by its aspiration to grow beyond fossil fuel. The shake-up in Saudi Arabia's royal family was as much about becoming a 21st-century economy as it was about rooting out corruption.