‘A ticket to the next life’: the lavish Buddhist dog funerals of Bangkok | Cities
Fou Fou always liked the good things in life. The pomeranian puppy had “a heart of gold” and a taste for expensive grilled pork. Varunthip Manthin loved the tiny dog…
Rangers find 109,217 snares in a single park in Cambodia | Environment
A simple break cable for motorbikes can kill a tiger, a bear, even a young elephant in Southeast Asia. Local hunters use these ubiquitous wires to create snares – indiscriminate…
Editor of Bangkok Post ‘forced to step down’ over coverage of government | World news
The editor of the Bangkok Post newspaper has said he has been forced to step down after refusing to curtail critical coverage of the ruling military government. Umesh Prandy, who…
Britain Apologizes to 2 Libyans for Role in C.I.A. Nightmare
The apology comes at a particularly unwelcome time for the C.I.A. as the Trump administration’s nominee to lead the agency, Gina Haspel, has been under intense scrutiny this week over…
The Guardian view on illegal rendition: take the ethical option
When a government falls short of its own high ethical standards, the attorney general Jeremy Wright told MPs on Thursday, it must do three things: first, there should be a…
Opinion | Lawyers Told Gina Haspel Torture Was Legal. But It Never Was.
Lawyers from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel wrote memos asserting that waterboarding and other forms of torture were legal. But the rationale these memos provided distorted domestic and…
Opinion | I Have a Few Questions for Gina Haspel
I was abducted from exile in Southeast Asia and secretly jailed in one of Libya’s worst dungeons. But the worst torture of my life wasn’t done to me by Col.…
Trump’s Nominee for C.I.A. Director Offered to Withdraw Amid Concerns Over Past Role in Torture Program
President Trump’s pick to run the C.I.A., Gina Haspel, told White House officials last week that she would withdraw her nomination if they were concerned her role in the brutal…
Thai activists claim victory over luxury housing on forest land | World news
Environmental activists in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai claimed victory on Sunday after the country’s military government agreed not to continue the development of luxury property on forest…
Press censorship is a worldwide problem – so banned articles are being turned into pop songs | Music
Journalist Chang Ping remembers his first brush with Chinese press censorship. “In early 1998, I sent a reporter in Beijing to interview rock singer Cui Jian, to talk about the…
Floyd Mayweather’s record in peril after Wanheng Menayothin moves to 50-0 | Sport
Floyd Mayweather’s most cherished record is no longer his alone. The Thai boxer Wanheng Menayothin improved to 50-0 on Wednesday, equaling Mayweather’s career mark with a fifth-round knockout of Panama’s…
Beloved princes: Thai boys become Buddhist novices – in pictures | Art and design
Poy Sang Long is a rite of passage that initiates a select group of boys as Buddhist novices. The event is the highlight of an annual celebration by the Shan…