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Hazy geopolitics means Sudan conflict rages unseen
News, Peter Apps, Published on 28/05/2024
» Video released by Sudan's rebel Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Wednesday shows the last few vehicles of aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres evacuating al-Fashir, the largest city in North Darfur, watched by the gunmen who have besieged the city and appear intent to overrun it altogether.
PM stands at jab crossroads
News, Editorial, Published on 15/06/2021
» Eighteen months on from its inauspicious Thai debut, Covid-19 has ultimately proven to be a formidable adversary.
Law is for everyone
News, Postbag, Published on 21/12/2019
» It was reported earlier this week that the army admitted to killing three unarmed civilians in the deep South.
Democracy a must
News, Postbag, Published on 06/02/2019
» Re: "Regime fails on corruption", (Editorial, Feb 4). Imagine that! Despite their most earnest promises, corruption has not improved under the unelected politicians, whose autocratic rule rejects the democratic norms of transparency, honesty and respect for persons that can alone combat corruption! Following May 22, 2014, no other outcome was ever credible.
Nissan's silent minority needs to be heard
News, Anjani Trivedi, Published on 30/01/2019
» All shareholders are supposed to have a voice. At Nissan Motor Co, only France's Renault SA seems to have one.
Double-faced drugs policy
News, Editorial, Published on 20/11/2018
» The government has become somewhat schizophrenic about its policies on banned drugs. It has sent mixed signals about the path to legalising medical marijuana. Providing a programme leading to the needed reform of law on illicit drugs is even less clear. In just the past few weeks, senior officials and ministers have indicated, rather, that they expect to renew and redoubled the "war on drugs" policies that have failed so badly.
Donald Trump is in denial about North Korea's nukes
News, Kent Harrington, Published on 24/07/2018
» No one yet knows what deals US President Donald Trump may have struck with Russian President Vladimir Putin during their private two-hour meeting in Helsinki. But it is already clear that Mr Trump's self-congratulations for striking a deal to "denuclearise" the Korean Peninsula during his Singapore summit with Kim Jong-un are ringing hollow.
New political bloods meet baptism of fire
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 10/03/2018
» The right is thrown into panic, like a sick man visited by an apparition of death. Sealed in a cage of obliviousness, they fear the galloping sound of apocalyptic horsemen. Or in their mind, the barbarians at the gate, rattling the rusty chain of power.
Davos fails to deliver an antidote for toxic problems
News, Joseph Stiglitz, Published on 05/02/2018
» I've been attending the World Economic Forum's annual conference in Davos, Switzerland -- where the so-called global elite convenes to discuss the world's problems -- since 1995. Never have I come away more dispirited than I have this year.
Trump peddles platitudes in Davos
News, John Lloyd, Published on 30/01/2018
» "When people are forgotten the world becomes fractured," President Donald Trump observed to the Davos forum in his breathlessly awaited speech on Friday.