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Commentary
Public broadcasting
THE ANNOUNCEMENT that the Government has approved an expenditure of $50 million to cover the first year of operation of a public broadcasting service comes some three years after the concept was first mooted. Several details about the proposed service...
A defence against tyranny
THE LATEST attack upon our freedom is coming from the very top of the judiciary aided and abetted by a senior officer of the political arm of government whose expressed support has become retroactively "personal". - Martin Henry
The Asian economic crisis, chapter two
IT HAS been nearly four years since the Asian crisis started in Thailand. It was in the summer of 1997 that the Thai bhat plummeted, sinking the Bangkok real estate sector. - John Rapley
The poisoning of public discourse
WHEN I was a schoolboy we had a games-master named Mr. Wilkinson who had served the College it seemed forever. I suppose he must have been in his 50s but he seemed ancient to us. He was small and craggy and shrewd. - Ian McDonald
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