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Catching the long end of the stick
Spectrum, Alan Parkhouse, Published on 31/01/2016
» In the 1970s one of Thailand’s most famous exports was the super-strong strain of marijuana known as Thai sticks, and now a five-part documentary and a television series are to be made on the illegal trade and the people who smuggled it to the Western world.
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Human rights body needs an overhaul
News, Editorial, Published on 31/01/2016
» Last week the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) had its status downgraded, which came as no surprise to anyone following the travails of the watchdog over the past year. The International Coordinating Committee (ICC) on National Human Rights Institutions officially bumped the NHRC from "A" down to "B" after repeated warnings to get its house in order.
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Dolly mixed up priorities
News, Postbag, Published on 31/01/2016
» What a relief! After months spent publishing page after page of trivia about economics, politics and various so-called “global threats”, the Bangkok Post has at last seized on a topic more worthy of our attention.
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Like walking in a winter wonderland
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 31/01/2016
» Visitors to Thailand may have been puzzled earlier in the week at the sight of many local people buried under layers of sweaters, scarves, jackets, rugs, balaclavas, blankets and unidentifiable woolly outfits you would normally associate with colder climes.
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The great oil bust and coming wave of refugees
News, Published on 31/01/2016
» The idea that oil wealth can be a curse is an old one — and it should need no explaining. Every few decades, energy prices rise to the heavens, kicking off a scramble for new sources of oil. Then supply eventually outpaces demand and prices suddenly crash to earth. The harder and more abrupt the fall, the greater the social and geopolitical impact.
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It's shaping up to be the year of Zika
News, Published on 31/01/2016
» Virologists have been expressing concern about the Zika virus for a couple of years now, but it’s only with its arrival in Puerto Rico during the holiday season that it has really started to make the news.
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Wrong timbre, Ploy's ploy, tug of war
News, Mae Moo, Published on 31/01/2016
» An academic has run foul of the celebrity set for criticising the choice of a golden teak casket to send off actor Tridsadee “Por” Sahawong at his cremation last week.
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Reformers to demand censorship from Facebook, Line
News, Published on 31/01/2016
» Executives of the giant social media outlets Facebook and Line have been called to a meeting by the national reform assembly over monitoring and removing content considered a security threat to Thailand.
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People 'need not fear' the new charter
News, Published on 31/01/2016
» Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam has rejected concerns that the latest draft of the constitution will limit a future government's control, and that extra powers given to state oversight agencies would be needed to avoid a "crisis panel".
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DSI backs sea gypsies in land feud
News, Published on 31/01/2016
» A senior investigator has shot down a developer's claim to land at the centre of a dispute with a Phuket sea gypsy community, saying title deeds could have been wrongfully issued.
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