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Refugees in Indonesia tackle life in limbo through schooling
News, AFP, Published on 20/06/2016
» Mahboob Jafari had barely seen the inside of a classroom, let alone taught in one, before he arrived in Indonesia as a refugee fleeing persecution in Afghanistan.
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Referendum is a mess
News, Editorial, Published on 20/06/2016
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has reversed an earlier pledge to stay clear of the debate on the national referendum on the draft constitution. After several weeks of insisting he would let the Election Commission handle the pre-vote phase, the prime minister has now stepped into the fray. His reason for raising the political stakes is the red shirts' attempts to open "fraud centres" that would monitor any attempt to cheat in the referendum. Gen Prayut said the centres would not be tolerated.
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Republicans find themselves in a big, hot Trump mess
News, Frank Bruni, Published on 20/06/2016
» In normal times, a party's leaders and comers grovel for roles in the convention and prime time on its stage.
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Responding to reality
News, Postbag, Published on 20/06/2016
» Umesh Pandey, in his June 17 commentary "Speeding on the road to ya ba ruin", argues Thailand should continue its harsh approach to illicit drugs because they are dangerous. But are they banned because they are dangerous, or is it more that they are dangerous because of being banned?
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Russia sees Western conspiracy in Olympics ban
News, Andrew Kramer, Published on 20/06/2016
» When a global governing body for sports barred Russia's track and field team from the 2016 Summer Olympics on Friday over a wide-ranging doping scandal, it was greeted in Russia, as is so often the case here these days, with a deep sense of victimhood.
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The Lady comes calling
Asia focus, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 20/06/2016
» The visit this week by the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi will certainly brighten the spirits of the sombre Thai people and could also lift the profile of the Thai junta and Myanmar's top leader.
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Brexit stirs serious talk of apocalypse
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 20/06/2016
» How's this for apocalyptic? "As a historian I fear Brexit [a British vote to leave the European Union in the referendum on June 23] could be the beginning of the destruction of not only the EU but also Western political civilisation in its entirety," said Donald Tusk, the president of the European Union, in an interview published on Monday in the German newspaper Bild.
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