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Has Pakistan's military finally lost its mystique?
News, Mihir Sharma, Published on 14/02/2024
» Its leader was clapped in jail, its ballot symbol erased, and its candidates forced to run as independents -- and yet the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party of former prime minister Imran Khan shockingly pulled ahead of its two biggest rivals in last week's elections. Although Pakistan's powerful army did not conceal its desire to end Khan's political career, many voters clearly had other ideas. In the process, they have delivered an unprecedented and shocking rebuke to the military brass who have exerted inordinate influence over the country's fate since its birth in 1947.
Yemeni preacher forges ties
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 05/01/2023
» A Yemeni Muslim leader visited the deep South yesterday in a bid to deepen ties with the Thai-Muslim community.
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.
No smiles for expats
News, Postbag, Published on 04/09/2019
» What is becoming increasingly obvious from your PostBag is that many foreigners who have been living in Thailand for very many years feel they are no longer welcome here.
The Rules of idiocy
News, Postbag, Published on 23/06/2019
» Another totally useless committee has been established. This body, according to local media reports, is to lecture about the prevention of forest fires and indiscriminate burning.
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.
Inter-faith relations on a knife-edge
News, Phongthai Wattanavanitvut, Published on 19/05/2018
» State-initiated projects aimed at bridging cultural and ethnic gaps between people of different religions in the far South, a region still wracked by separatist-led violence, are making headway by tackling some of the most divisive issues, according to local officials.
Beware the knock
News, Postbag, Published on 22/04/2018
» Re: "Philippine's Duterte personally ordered arrest of Australian nun", (Online, April 19).
Beggaring belief
News, Postbag, Published on 21/04/2018
» Re: "Graft gobbling up our dream of democracy", (Opinion, April 20).
Keeping the faith: No stopping Nana clan
News, Ekkarat Mukem, Published on 17/02/2018
» Ever wondered why there's a BTS Skytrain station called Nana? What about Sukhumvit Soi 4 going by the same moniker? Meanwhile, foreign tourists like to be shocked by Nana Plaza, one of the most famous red-light districts in Bangkok that adopts the same family's name.