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Thai-US treaty alliance needs realigning
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 15/01/2016
» That the United States' role in Asia's fluid and dynamic geopolitical canvas is considered indispensable is not a matter of dispute. Governments and states in South Asia, Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia have all been in favour of a continued American engagement that dates back more than a century, and which intensified after World War II and throughout the Cold War. Even China, the pre-eminent giant with superpower status, has not opposed US engagement in Asia, thanks in part to unprecedented mutual economic interdependence between Washington and Beijing.
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Quality over quantity for UN goals
News, Brad Brasseur, Published on 15/01/2016
» The United Nations recently claimed that the Millennium Development Goal that focused on primary education increased global enrolment from 83% to 91%. Despite these gains, today it is estimated that 124 million children do not attend school and 757 million adults are illiterate.
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Teen rapists should face adult charges
News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 15/01/2016
» Reading the news over the past few days I was surprised to see how five teens in New York City were being tried as adults in what is set to become a landmark case for the US, one of the countries with the highest number of rape cases in the world.
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Amend the Sangha Act
News, Editorial, Published on 15/01/2016
» While Thai Buddhism is plagued with many problems, the controversy over the supreme patriarch nomination underscores the crux of the matter -- the Sangha law that perpetuates a closed and autocratic clergy.
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Thailand must recognise ethnicities for reconciliation
News, Published on 15/01/2016
» Few, if any, would dispute the need for the country to achieve reconciliation. The question is how? One answer is to reconcile the Thai people, so that politicians cannot divide them, not through ultra-nationalism, but respect.
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Ebola survivors face discrimination
News, Rod Mac Johnson, Published on 15/01/2016
» They may have conquered Ebola but survivors of the fever and the heroic workers who saved them face a new struggle: acceptance by communities after the end of the deadly epidemic.
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Playing it smart
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 15/01/2016
» Video games can be both friends and foes to children. Playing them right can enhance children's development in several aspects. Playing it wrong and we, especially parents, are likely to see their dark side. But the question here is can parents stop their kids playing computer games, or at least control them enough to make them stay away from them?
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#NoComment
Guru, Napamon Roongwitoo, Published on 15/01/2016
» I recently read a great quote: "Maturing is realising how many things don't require your comment."
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Terrorists, no doubt
News, Postbag, Published on 15/01/2016
» Re: “Russian raids on prison kill dozens”, (BP, Jan 11)
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Why the secrecy, the rush for a new supreme patriarch?
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 15/01/2016
» The country has been without a supreme patriarch for two years, since the death of Somdet Phra Nyanasamvana Suvaddhana Mahathera, the 19th supreme patriarch, on Oct 24, 2013.
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