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Artists resist repression in Thailand, US
Oped, Sally Tyler, Published on 08/12/2025
» In late August, two seemingly unrelated events occurred in Thailand and the US. The Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) altered a major exhibit it had recently opened and, a few weeks later, the comedian Jimmy Kimmel was temporarily taken off the air by the ABC television network. These events are linked as forms of artistic repression and perhaps more concerning, as examples of the growing use of intermediary censorship by authoritarian regimes.
Don't write the obituary of the lunch hour just yet
Oped, Jackie Mansky, Published on 26/11/2024
» Rewatching Modern Times the other day, I realised it's only a matter of time before something like the Billows Feeding Machine gets shilled on TikTok Shop.
Run classes in minority tongues
Oped, Brandon Darr and Kirk Person, Published on 21/02/2022
» 'Run to the mountain!" shouted the shaman. Nat tensed up as he recalled the most horrifying day of his life. Despite his initial shock, Nat, along with his father and others, clawed their way up a nearby mountain as a tsunami hit the Andaman coast in 2004.
Priorities questioned
Oped, Postbag, Published on 20/11/2020
» Re: "Haze to blanket Bangkok as open burning surges", (BP, Nov 17).
Press provides antidote to 'fake news' epidemic
Oped, Kamonwan Petchot, Published on 23/05/2020
» Disinformation, misinformation, "fake news", hoaxes and inaccurate, distorted content -- whichever term you prefer -- is not a new phenomenon. The historical record traces at least as far back as Roman times. The difference now is that digital technology and social media spreads disinformation at an unprecedented speed and reaches wider audiences far beyond the traditional limitations of distance.