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France's failings a lesson for Thailand
News, Editorial, Published on 15/11/2020
» Five years on after the Bataclan massacre, France is once again facing a resurgent Islamist threat. Over the past few months, three separate attacks have rocked the proud secular nation which champions freedom of expression: stabbings near the former office of political satire magazine Charlie Hebdo, the beheading of 47-year-old school teacher Samuel Paty, who showed his students caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, and a knife attack in Nice.
Atrocity reveals humanity's beauty and thorns
News, Zafar Bhatti, Published on 20/03/2019
» Of all the flowers in the world, the most beautiful is the rose. Its structure, fragrance and richness of colour combine to make it the lover's gift of choice. Yet in marvelling at this beauty, we often overlook its thorns.
Electric nightmares
News, Postbag, Published on 19/08/2018
» Re: "Electric taxis launch next month", (BP, Aug 17).
Avenues of illogicality
News, Postbag, Published on 18/08/2018
» Re: "PM Prayut wants Bangkok traffic relief in 3 months", (Online, Aug 15).
Religious fervour serves no god well
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 07/04/2018
» Aformer rock musician has embraced the role of online preacher and denounced, above other things, rock music. In fact, he objects to most kinds of music, deeming it against Islam. Weerachon "Toh" Sattaying, once the high-pitched frontman of the band Silly Fools (love the name), has over the past six years quit his former lifestyle and became a born-again Muslim. Bearded, skull-capped, fiery-eyed and charismatic, Weerachon runs a dry-aged beef business and hosts an online religious programme that has cultivated quite a following.