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The World Economy Without China
NEW HAVEN – Is the Chinese economy about to implode? With its debt overhangs and property bubbles, its zombie state-owned enterprises and struggling banks, China is increasingly portrayed as the next...
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Thailand: The Soap Opera
Ubiquitously absent from televisions during the one-month period of compulsory mourning for His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej are prime-time soap operas.
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The Making of a Cult of Personality
Public mourning has become a competitive sport for some who, intentionally or not, have made it more difficult to impress.
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Donald Trump’s Foreign-Policy Challenges
CAMBRIDGE — During his campaign, US President-elect Donald Trump questioned the alliances and institutions that undergird the liberal world order, but he spelled out few specific policies. Perhaps the...
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Junta Backers Dream of Validation in US Coup
Junta supporters are using the images of anti-Trump protesters burning objects, including one defecating in public, as proof Americans are no better than Thais at respecting democracy.
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America is More Than Trump, Thailand More Than Prayuth
Trump or no Trump, Prayuth or no Prayuth, the relations between the people of Thailand and the United States shall endure, and hopefully positively when we look beyond the narrow mindset of nationalism.
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Preparing Asia for Trump
CANBERRA — Whether or not US President-elect Donald Trump behaves better once in office than he did on the campaign trail, America’s global authority has already taken a battering, not least among its...
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Purging Truth and Honesty Not Acts of Love
For some, love and reverence is a performance that must be repeatedly displayed to prove one’s love and reverence to others. Love and reverence which requires repeated performance is essentially...
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Watching Our Neighbors Suffer – in Silence
What is happening in Myanmar’s Rakhine state to the Rohingya people is nothing short of abject failure by many Burmese who regarded themselves as Buddhists to be compassionate. Buddhism preaches...
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Slide, Grind Through Thai Skate Co. Preduce’s New Feature
As a child in the ‘80s, I would vent my anger and frustration with the family warfare going on at home skateboarding with my friends. Like most kids from that era, we got into it watching cats like...
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Go Paperless, Live the Change, Be the Social Contract
Today is Constitution Day. To many it means just another day off work despite the fact that for two decades after the 1932 revolt, it was celebrated with a festival that two years later even added a...
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The State of Migration in Thailand
She cleans your house, sews your clothes and cooks your food. He catches the fish you eat, builds the house you live in and polishes the shoes you wear. These labor intensive occupations are often the...
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Thai Official Who Stole Hotel Paintings Freed by Japanese
BANGKOK — Japanese authorities on Friday freed a Thai bureaucrat who was arrested for stealing three paintings from a hotel he was staying in Kyoto, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
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Junta Thanks Compliant Thai Media With Gift – a Muzzle
After nearly three years of serving as unpaid junta apologists, many Thai media outlets this week had a very rude awakening. The junta’s appointed National Reform Steering Assembly wants every media...
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Are You Qualified to Practice Journalism in Juntaland?
JUNTALAND — After the righteous Media Reform Bill was passed in 2017 to guarantee press freedoms, abuses by scribes unsympathetic with the selfless efforts of their rightful and selfless government...
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Sex, Politics and Intolerance. Or, Am I Gay?
Advancement, or at a minimum, tolerance for LGBT rights would go a long way to advancing democracy. Tolerance, if not the full embrace of different gender identities, can foster political tolerance if...
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How to Live Under Military Rule? Yue Paen Do it!
Arriving to interview TV host Nattakorn Devakula earlier this week about the suspension of his Voice TV news discussion show, I was ushered into a waiting room where another TV host was preparing for...
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Goodman vs. Badman IV: Clash of the Thaitans
For Thais, following the ongoing police-military blockade of Wat Dhammakaya by the regime is like watching a movie unfold. The problem is two competing sagas are unspooling in tandem, depending on...
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Article 44 as Strong Medicine and Its Side Effects
Inadvertently, absolute power under Article 44 of the provisional junta constitution has become controversial again after it was used against Wat Dhammakaya.
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Gender Equality, A Game Changer For Nature
By Aban Marker Kabraji International Union for Consevation of Nature, Asia In Fiyoaree, Maldives, Leena wakes up every day just a little before sunrise for her morning prayer. She prepares breakfast...
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