Other Perspectives

Two Malaysian Opposition politicians were arrested for participating in a candlelight vigil calling for the dissolution of the Perak State Assembly.
They were part of a gathering of more than a dozen people, and they did not have a police permit making it an illegal gathering.
A peaceful vigil of a dozen or so and they get arrested? Talk about [...]

This conference was already boycotted by the U.S.A., Australia, the Netherlands, Israel, Italy and Canada.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran triggered a walkout by the U.K. and other EU States when he questioned the reality of the Holocaust, accused Israel of genocide and spoke of a wide-ranging Zionist conspiracy. He called Israelis “those racist perpetrators of genocide”.
Should [...]

If you follow Postbag in the Bangkok Post, you will be quite used to Cha-am Jamal’s (perhaps) eccentric views on climate change and global warming.
In today’s paper he wades into the current conflict, suggesting a compromise might be for PM Abhisit to step down and someone from the Newin Chidchob faction be appointed as PM. (A [...]

On 20th March, 2009, Canada declared United Kingdom Member of Parliament George Galloway persona non grata on the grounds that he supports Hamas, which is banned in Canada as a terrorist organization. He was due to give a speech in Toronto at the end of March. Alykhan Velshi, spokesman for the Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney [...]

Some days, you just get the feeling that it’s good to be alive. Reading the front page of today’s Bangkok Post gave me exactly that feeling.
In November 2005 when the Washington Post and ABC News accused the CIA of using rendition flights to transfer alleged al-Qaeda operatives to a secret jail in Thailand, there were [...]