Showing 1 - 4 of 4
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.
When tradition trumps reason
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 09/12/2019
» The senseless killing of animals is something that should be condemned not celebrated. But a notoriously bloody spectacle that went ahead last week in Nepal reminds us how difficult it can be to overturn centuries of "tradition".
Show of politics
News, Postbag, Published on 27/02/2019
» Re: "Voters told to focus on promises", (BP, Feb 25).
Paddling in filth
News, Postbag, Published on 15/08/2018
» Poor, long suffering Mae Ramphueng Beach, here in Rayong.