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Ex-general's mixed legacy
News, Reuters, Published on 16/02/2016
» When US President Barack Obama hosts a meeting of Southeast Asian leaders in California this week, his Myanmar counterpart Thein Sein will be notably absent.
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President Widodo gaining traction
News, Published on 16/02/2016
» Shoppers clamber atop slippery fish stalls in a town in rural Indonesia to catch a glimpse of President Joko Widodo and jostle to kiss his hand, a sign the star power that swept him to office a year-and-a-half ago is intact.
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Publicity never bad
News, Postbag, Published on 16/02/2016
» Thanks for your brave attempt at clarifying what bridge is and is not (Life, Feb 15). One of the unintended consequences of the saga is that the Pattaya bridge club, small by international standards, is now the most famous in the entire world, with several hundred newspaper and TV reports and tens of thousands of comments on blogsites talking about it. The tale has also made Jeremy Watson (the organiser) and myself (the founder, in 1994) the best-known bridge players throughout the five continents even though our standards sadly fall short of the brilliance usually required for notoriety.
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Leaders are setting a self-serving agenda
News, Published on 16/02/2016
» In a conversation last year with author Marilynn Robinson, US President Barack Obama said he learns all things important from books.
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All this poll talk makes for a vexed PM
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 16/02/2016
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha recently reminded people he is a man of substance, not a nobody, or moo, maa, ka, kai in Thai lingo.
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Tracking the forgers
News, Editorial, Published on 16/02/2016
» Police deserve kudos for their arrest last week of a long-wanted man accused of altering, making and selling counterfeit passports. The tale of a forger caught because of his love for take-home pizzas was worthy of a novel. More to the point, taking Hamid Reza Jafary to court is a major accomplishment. When arrested, police found 173 high-quality passports in his Chachoengsao shophouse. Diplomats said they would have fooled most immigration checkpoints in the world.
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Monastic community must get its act together
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 16/02/2016
» Hands off, and mind your own business! That, in essence, is one of the demands put to the government by a group of monks calling themselves the Sangha and Buddhist Alliance of Thailand and led by Phra Methee Dhammacharn, secretary-general of the Buddhism Protection Centre of Thailand.
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