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Sea turtles riddled with deadly tumours
News, AFP, Published on 08/02/2016
» The young patient writhes on the operating table, kicking its flippers. A team of medical attendants turns it over, revealing an underbelly cluttered with tumours, some as big as golf balls.
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Sorry bridge to nowhere
News, Editorial, Published on 08/02/2016
» A task force of district officials, soldiers and police stormed a crime scene involving an international gang last week. Or so the authorities claimed. The raid on a gentle bridge tournament has made Thailand a laughing stock. Law enforcers could find no trace of gambling, which makes sense since bridge is not played for money. Then, 32 of these elderly foreign residents were arrested, marched into a police cell and, after a lengthy and exhaustive (for them) wait, charged with possessing playing cards without excise stamps.
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Zika virus comes with a hefty price tag
News, Published on 08/02/2016
» People are scrambling as the scary, mosquito-borne virus Zika winds its way through 26 (and counting) countries and territories in the Americas. The commotion is understandable: the virus may be linked to an alarming spike in microcephaly, a birth defect, in Brazil, and a neurological disorder elsewhere, and there's nothing like the prospect of a generation maimed to trigger panic.
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The high complexity of inequality
News, Published on 08/02/2016
» Everyone seems to be talking about -- and condemning -- today's rising level of economic inequality. Fuelled by jarring statistics like Oxfam's recent revelation that the world's richest 62 people own as much wealth as the poorest 3.6 billion, popular support for left-wing figures like America's Bernie Sanders and Britain's Jeremy Corbyn is rising. But today's ideology-driven debates oversimplify an issue that is exceedingly complex -- and affected by processes that we do not fully understand.
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Repression gains ground across Asia
News, Pimsiri Petchnamrob, Published on 08/02/2016
» The charges brought against Sirikan Charoensiri, of Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR), one of the lawyers representing 14 student activists charged with sedition, are indicative of not only the deteriorating human rights situation in Thailand, but also an alarming regional trend of reprisals against human rights defenders and activists in the region.
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Prosecution fails to clear up 2006 election scandal
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 08/02/2016
» After almost 10 years of living with the stigma of being electoral cheats, which resulted in the dissolution of the Thai Rak Thai Party by the Constitutional Court, several former members of the defunct party are celebrating the Supreme Court's verdict last Wednesday which, they claim, has found the party not guilty.
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Police really do make us feel shamed
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 08/02/2016
» The public outrage over the police raid on a bridge meeting club in Pattaya in which 32 elderly foreigners were arrested is understandable.
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In a void of thoughts
Life, Pimchanok Phungbun Na Ayudhya, Published on 08/02/2016
» In a time of self-censorship, when the free mind is blocked, people are restricting their own expression, out of fear. With scepticism, I question how loudly one is allowed to think in such an Orwellian society. When a major political protest took place in March 2009, a Facebook friend asked me openly on my wall if I was a "red shirt" or a "yellow shirt" supporter. I did not answer. Yes, self-censorship. This might have been the very beginning where I -- as an individual -- started to keep my mouth shut. Instead of expressing my opinions, I choose to bottle up my thoughts and keep mum when it comes to politics.
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