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Cues from Iran on who to vote for
News, Marc Champion, Published on 03/07/2024
» The opposition just won a first round of elections, forcing a runoff in which everything depends on where third-party votes go. No, not in France -- in Iran. You could be forgiven for missing it amid all the excitement over the advance of the French hard right, President Joe Biden's car crash debate in the US and the coming immolation of the UK's Conservative Party. Yet Iran's experience is worth attention, not least as a reminder of what to vote for and why. Iran, to recap, is having a snap contest to replace President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a May helicopter crash. Raisi was also being groomed to succeed the 85-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as supreme leader, the unelected post that -- as the title suggests -- matters most in the Islamic Republic.
Forum discusses limits of AI
News, Jo Ya Hsiung, Published on 03/07/2023
» Artificial intelligence (AI) can be both an opportunity and a threat but it can never duplicate social media users and become self-aware, a forum was told.
Parents win court battle over hijab rule
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 22/04/2022
» A group of parents have won an Administrative Court judgement against what they felt was an unfair rule barring their children from wearing their hijab headscarves to school in the southern border province of Yala.
Fatal affair, van dispute sours, gold thief drugs boss
News, Mae Moo, Published on 03/04/2022
» Unfaithful wife left with nothing
Hijab not oppressive
News, Published on 27/12/2021
» Re: "Signs of integration with the freedom of veil", (BP, Dec 23).
PM Ardern wins people's hearts
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 01/03/2021
» When New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern visited Thailand for the East Asia Summit in 2019, she surprised officials and media waiting at the airport for the world's youngest PM.
Trek home hits border snag
News, Post Reporters, Published on 24/07/2020
» Twenty-six Muslim Cambodians, including women and children, were arrested as they prepared to cross illegally back into Cambodia near Rong Kluea Market in Sa Kaeo yesterday.
The 7-decade battle for universal human rights
News, Robert Destro, Published on 10/12/2019
» In today's splintered world, it is tempting to assume that there is absolutely nothing upon which all nations can agree and all cultures can embrace as an integral part of their communities. But International Human Rights Day, celebrated on Dec 10, reminds us that it wasn't so long ago that the world came together to do exactly that. On Dec 10, 1948, the United Nations unanimously adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), a set of rights to which all individuals are entitled. Rights such as being free from torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment. Rights like freedom of religion or belief. The freedoms of expression, association, and peaceful assembly. The right to form and join trade unions. Under the UDHR, every human being in the world can claim these as their own birthright, no matter their citizenship or allegiance.
Not seeing the truth
News, Postbag, Published on 08/08/2019
» Re: "Thailand needs more 'wonder women''', (Opinion, Aug 7). If the concern is how women's dress codes in Thailand reflect their submissive or inferior role, how can Ms Pannika and Ms Pattamawan not see the more and more strict forms of hijab women in southern Thailand have to wear? How can they not see and protest against the state imposing the hijab on primary school girls in the country? A few weeks ago, this newspaper had an article about a recycling shoe workshop showing, without comments, a woman in a burka. A burka, in Thailand!
Pattani pupils win right to wear hijabs
News, Post Reporters, Published on 04/11/2018
» The Songkhla Administrative Court has issued an junction barring Anuban Pattani School from penalising students for wearing Muslim headscarves to class.