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Cambodia's bluster fails at UN event
Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 30/09/2025
» At the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Thailand and Cambodia verbally clashed again over their border dispute. What stood out was not just the usual complaints, but the gap between quiet promises made behind closed doors and loud posturing in public.
US hard power must get harder
Oped, Todd G. Buchholz & Michael Mindlin, Published on 05/06/2025
» In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Harrison Ford gets his biggest laugh when a desert assassin twirls a scimitar with menacing bravado. Following this brief performance, Ford's character cracks a wry smile, takes out his pistol, and shoots the man dead. In a potential contest with China, the United States looks more like the medieval assassin, deploying young sailors and soldiers equipped with perilously outdated, vulnerable technology.
Justice for Chaiyaphum
Oped, Editorial, Published on 15/03/2024
» Just days before the relatives and friends of slain human rights activist Chaiyaphum Pasae mark the seventh anniversary of his death in Chiang Mai, they have learnt that prosecutors have decided not to press murder charges against the soldier who gunned him down.
Preventing a proxy war in Myanmar
Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 22/03/2022
» While it still can, Asean must prevent a proxy war in Myanmar.
Ethiopia: War in Tigray still a tricky prospect
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/12/2020
» 'Love always wins. Killing others is a defeat," said Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in June 2018, shortly after surviving a grenade attack at a rally in Meskel Square in the capital, Addis Ababa. How was he to know that just thirty months after saying that he would have to stop loving and start killing?
Justice for Chaiyaphum still undelivered
Oped, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 28/10/2020
» More than three years after the death of Chaiyaphum Pasae, a Lahu ethnic activist who was killed by a soldier at a checkpoint in Chiang Mai, the perpetrator(s) remain free -- and the chances of anyone being accountable for his untimely death are zero.
Lost footage shows justice is lacking
Oped, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 21/06/2018
» A key factor continues to elude those on a quest for the truth behind the tragic death of ethnic Lahu activist Chaiyaphum Pasae — missing evidence.