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Ideology check-list
News, Published on 31/10/2022
» Re: Xi and top officials pay homage to Mao" (BP, Oct 29).
Negotiating with Putin is the only way forward
News, Published on 02/04/2022
» As the crisis in Ukraine becomes more acute, so does the need for negotiations. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that Ukraine is "being decimated before the eyes of the world", with the only reasonable option being "an immediate cessation of hostilities and serious negotiations based on the principles of the UN Charter and international law".
Calls for blood must be nipped in bud
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 13/06/2019
» What began as a silly spat between female politicians in opposite camps may not turn out pretty judging from louder calls for blood from right-wing, ultra-royalists.
Corrupt ideologies
News, Postbag, Published on 24/04/2019
» Re: "End scourge of extremism", (Editorial, April 23). The extremism of religious zealotry is merely one subspecies of ideological zealotry. Ideologies like communism, Christianity, fascism, Hinduism, absolute monarchism, Islam, nationalist Buddhism, white supremacism and the rest all share common features.
Greying nation must talk about death
News, Published on 24/04/2019
» We may not know when death will strike, but we can certainly choose to have a good death. However, if you don't know how to do it, you are not alone.
Suthep's chicanery
News, Postbag, Published on 14/11/2018
» Re: "Suthep's fall from grace gathers pace", (Opinion, Nov 13).
Budget for the people
News, Postbag, Published on 11/11/2018
» The plea on behalf of 109 civic groups to extend to all parents the government's 600 baht per month subsidy for children of poor families says a lot about the junta's priorities.
Making sense of Jokowi's second term bid
News, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 14/08/2018
» Do not let the state-of-the-art Soekarno-Hatta International Airport Terminal 3 and the slogan "Energy of Asia" for this month's Asian Games fool you about Indonesia's place in the world. It is just the beginning.
Long trek to democracy in SE Asia
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 03/08/2018
» A quarter-century before the Arab Spring of 2011, there was a democratic spring in Southeast Asia: the Philippines in 1986, Myanmar in 1988, Thailand in 1992 and Indonesia in 1998. The Arab Spring was largely drowned in blood (Syria, Egypt, Libya), but democracy really seemed to be taking root in Southeast Asia -- for a while.
Imran Khan's election presents a global dilemma
News, Mihir Sharma, Published on 01/08/2018
» The cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has finally been accepted as Pakistan's next prime minister. I say "finally" because the election commission managed to add to widespread concerns about the elections by inexplicably delaying its announcement of the outcome.