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Calendar row a distraction
News, Editorial, Published on 09/01/2016
» The row over the distribution of New Year calendars featuring photos of former prime ministers Thaksin Shinawatra and his sister Yingluck gives a grim outlook for political reconciliation.
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Together, we must stop the scourge of cyberbullying
News, Lars Norling, Published on 09/01/2016
» Thailand’s internet penetration rate is ranked among the top in Asean. Facebook revealed that Bangkok is Facebook's capital, with over 8.6 million accounts. Based on a survey by the Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA), children and youth, aged from 5 to 28 years, are the group that has the highest internet penetration rate of 75% and spend 54.2 hours per week online, or close to 8 hours per day. What hurts Thai society is not only internet addiction, but also cyberbullying, in which children are both bullies and victims.
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Tabloid saga and our gang mentality
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 09/01/2016
» The tabloid saga of the week is a slap-fest involving 30 people, mostly women, its flurry of glorious hair-pulling captured in a video clip. The cause is a triangulated romance between a young man and his two women, one of them a TV celebrity. Love hurts, as we teach our children, or it’s not love. But let’s pause and consider: what can a catfight, the first sensational, useless headline of 2016, tell us about the state of our national politics of the past decade? That we’re in a gang war, apparently.
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