At Kathmandu’s Hindu Burning Grounds, Death Is a Regular Public Matter
Standing amongst the burning funeral pyres at Pashupatinath on the eastern side of the city of Kathmandu, a person from Australia may be struck by the completely different approach to death Hindu people, who cremate their dead there, have. In...
UN Rules Australian Climate Inaction Is Violating Torres Strait Islander Rights
The UN Human Rights Commission found on 22 September, that the Australian government is indeed failing the peoples of the low-lying Torres Strait Islands, due to its refusal to take adequate action on the climate crisis, which in turn, is adversely impacting...
Hands Off Assange! US and UK Citizens Stand in Solidarity with Truth-Teller
Many had high hopes that current Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, would make good on his pre-election rhetoric calling for an end to the persecution of award-winning Australian journalist Julian Assange, by pressuring the United Kingdom to allow him to...
Karen Refugees from Myanmar Spend Decades in UN-Run Thai Camps, as Recent Arrivals Are Returned
Along the Trak province Thai border region with Myanmar, there are a series of three refugee camps, with over 54,000 displaced persons living within them. The overwhelming majority residing in the camps are Karen people, some of whom have been living...
High Times in the Land of Smiles: Some Snaps
The Thai government removed the entire cannabis plant from its scheduling as a narcotic in early 2022, which meant that, as of June, the plant has been legal. And a proliferation of licenced farms cultivating it and retail outlets selling the...
Unrestricted and Alive: Thailand Street Life in Pictures
One of the first things that strikes an Australian strolling through any city or regional town in Thailand is the prevalence of street vendors selling tasty food at cheap prices on the side of the road, with the provision of...
Rescuing Elephants: An Interview With Thai Elephant Alliance Association’s Mr Kid
Gone are the days, when tourists in Thailand would flock to parks to ride elephants on a so-called safari, with a keeper, or mahout, strolling beside the large pachyderm brandishing a metal hook they used to prod the animal to...
“This Is Not a Bluff”: Nuclear War Draws Closer as Putin’s Threats Escalate
“In the event of a threat to the territorial integrity of our country and to defend Russia and our people, we will certainly make use of all weapon systems available to us,” said Russian president Vladimir Putin in an address to...
Thailand’s Cannabis Industry Is Taking Off Under a Hazy Legal Grey Area
The burgeoning legal cannabis market operating in Thailand is a beautiful thing to witness. No longer are police officers busting individuals over the whiff of a joint, but rather locals and foreigners alike can follow that scent to a legitimate...
Albanese Has No Issue with the UK and US Crucifying Assange
Then federal MP and now PM Anthony Albanese was one of only 36 federal parliamentarians to sign a petition in 2019, calling on the now three-year-long extradition proceedings against Australian journalist and publisher Julian Assange to be dropped and for him...
