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  • OPINION

    Rival nations face showdown in UN trial

    News, Published on 13/12/2014

    » Beijing is fast approaching a Monday deadline to submit its defence in the arbitration case against its South China Sea claims brought by the Philippines.

  • OPINION

    Force-fed film belongs deep in dark vaults

    News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 13/12/2014

    » Strange things have happened at the cinemas. First, Hitler showed up in a Thai short film sponsored by the government (meaning by taxpayers), the radioactive gatecrasher into a party of virtuous citizens. Second, another Thai film featuring, among other things, a joke about the anal cleft — it's funny as long as it's not your anal cleft — is raking in a huge amount of money at the multiplexes, likely surpassing the 100-million-baht mark as you're reading this, which is after just four days of release. Cinema enlightens, even in the dark forest of swastikas and bodily bergschrunds.

  • OPINION

    Cycling plan lacks urgency

    News, Published on 13/12/2014

    » Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's plan to make the expansion of bike lanes throughout the country an urgent national agenda item is a welcome move.

  • OPINION

    Postbag: Fess up on CIA jails

    News, Published on 13/12/2014

    » Prime Minister’s Office Minister Suwaphan Tanyuvardhana says no secret jails in Thailand were used by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to detain and torture suspected members of al-Qaeda or other terrorist groups (BP, Dec 12).

  • OPINION

    Climate change battle needs more than talks in Lima

    News, Published on 13/12/2014

    » At this very moment, all eyes are on Lima, Peru, and rightfully so. Peru is currently hosting the COP 20 (Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change). For two weeks, representatives of every country are gathered to iron out the details of what should be the new agreement on climate change, to be signed in Paris in December 2015.

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