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Heartbreaking: Grandmother Says Police Shot At Her Grandson Eight Times
A teenager underwent an 8-hour surgery after being shot in Laurinburg, North Carolina by a cop, the teen's grandmother said.
Posted By Clarissa Hamlin
The grandmother of a North Carolina teen who was shot eight times by a police officer early Saturday recently broke her silence amid her wait for answers and a state investigation.
"He's fighting for his life. He's fighting for his life," Wanda Bethea, grandmother of 18-year-old Dezmond Bethea, said about the teen being shot in Laurinburg to local news outlet WPDE. "And as far as the investigation, we can't say anything, like. The SBI (State Bureau of Investigation). It could take a week. It could take a month. It could take whatever. You know, we're still waiting to hear from there. I understand it's going to take some time for this to take place."
Police responded to a call around 2 a.m. Saturday about shots being fired at an intersection in Laurinburg, Police Chief Darwin Williams confirmed. One officer was involved in the shooting, Williams said, declining to speak on the specific incident details. The officer and teen's names were also not released as well as information on whether the teen was unarmed.
State investigates teen's shooting by North Carolina officer State police are investigating after a teen was shot and wounded by a police officer in North Carolina. Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin… https://t.co/JU5fvZ9VI3
— NetworkOfNewsTexas (@NOfNews_Texas) May 29, 2018
An Emergency Medical Services director, however, shed some light on what happened during the shooting.
"There were two different calls. Whether they were related or not I can't say for certain, but they were both transported from the same area at about the same time," Roylin Hammond, EMS director at Scotland Memorial Hospital in Laurinburg, said to Laurinburg Exchange, another local news outlet. "The calls came in at a little after 2 a.m. and another around 2:30 [a.m.]."
The first individual was taken from a food mart parking lot, and a second person with multiple gunshot wounds was transported to the hospital, according to Hammond.
The teen, who is a Scotland High School senior, suffered 17 wounds and underwent an eight-hour surgery, Bethea said. Her road to making a full recovery will involve more surgeries.
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) is investigating the officer-involved shooting. The Scotland County NAACP in also involved in the matter, the Laurinburg Exchange said.
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My first official youth ministry role was at a church which served as an international crossroads. After services, over coffee, the South African ambassador chatted with the military attaché from the States, while kids from Africa, North and South America and Asia played on the swing set out back. Meanwhile a group of teenage boys who, though all originally from the United States, had recently moved from the Middle East, Washington D.C. and Peru, created a chorus of armpit farts in the background.
Though our youth group started out small, and remained small by some standards, what we lacked in numbers we made up for in diversity!
"Where are you from" was a question demanding explanation. Many of my students had parents from two separate countries and were either permanently or temporarily living in a third.
"Um, you mean, what does my passport say?" or "Where did I just move from?" or "Where have I lived the longest?" or "Where do I feel like I'm from?" where all fair qualifiers.
Then there was the question of language. And dress. And everything else.
What language do you teach in when you have 6 languages represented? What do we consider appropriate to wear? And who is the "we" that decides? What about money? Should all of our events be free? Do we serve dinner when our host country eats anywhere from 9:00pm–midnight, but the Americans in our group eat at 5:00pm?
Challenges are par for the course in a diverse church, figuring out how to form community and follow Jesus together. But mostly, I have found, there is a deep and rich joy that comes from unity in diversity. These challenges are worth it. We were meant to live like this: wrestling through tough questions, having our assumptions challenged and our prejudices undone, going continually to the Word to determine what is cultural and what is God, innovating over and over again, and living in the richness of every tribe, tongue and nation. We were meant to worship, pray, listen to and follow Jesus together, regardless of skin color, passport nationality and mother-tongue.
Yes, to the glory of God the Father. This is what we were made for.


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Scripts Part 8: Toggle Hidden Files
systemsboy April 27, 2009
Yes, you read that right. It's time for another entry in the Script Sharing category. It's been a damn long time since I've posted anything here, but I've actually been doing a lot of scripting, and I just realized that I had some potentially useful stuff lying around. So hopefully I'll be able to post some new stuff to this section once and a while.
Also, in reviving the Script Sharing series, I realized that all the old scripts were missing. Seems when I switched ISPs a while back, I forgot to move over the archive. Well, never fear, they're all back now.
Today's script is actually an Automator workflow for the Finder. (What sort of workflow designer would I be if I didn't create the odd Automator workflow every now and again?) This workflow will turn hidden files on and off in the Finder. To enable it, simply unzip the below-linked download and place the resultant file in your Workflows folder (~/Library/Workflows/Applications/Finder).
To access it, right-click (or control-click) anywhere in the Finder and navigate to More->Automator in the contextual menu. Select "Toggle-HiddenFiles" and your Finder will restart. When it comes back up, you'll notice that hidden files are no longer hidden. To reverse the effect, simply repeat the process. Rerunning the script will re-hide invisible files.
So, here's the script:
Toggle Hidden Files Workflow
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Scripts Part 7: Contextual Menus with Automator
systemsboy March 31, 2007
Recently, for some odd reason, there has been a spate of solutions to the problem of creating new files in the Finder via a contextual menu. One involves a contextual menu plugin called NuFile. Another involves installing Big Cats Scripts and linking it to an Applescript. But honestly — and I'm surprised someone else didn't think of this first — when faced with simple contextual menu tasks, these days my first thought is to look to Automator.
And by golly, that's just what I did. Here are a few Automator workflows that do, more or less what the afore-linked methods do. To me, the advantage of the Automator approach is that you don't need to install anything. It's all baked in. Which means you don't ever need to update anything either. Nice. Simple. And, yeah, kind of the whole point of Automator.
So here you go. Maybe someone will find this useful, if for nothing other than as an exercise in creating contextual menu functionality with Automator. Or skinning a cat multiple ways. Or something. To use this, download the .zip file, unzip it and place it in:
~/Library/Workflows/Applications/Finder
NewTextFile Workflow
It should become active immediately.
Also, here are a couple variants. One will create a text file, and then open it in TextWrangler (if you have TextWrangler, and if you don't, go get it now); the other creates a Word document, and opens it in Word. I'm far to lazy to completely duplicate the functionality of NuFile. But if you examine these workflows, you can at least see now how that would be possible (in fact, fairly easy) to accomplish.
NewTextFile Workflow Variants
I actually think it would be great if Apple made it drop dead simple to create true contextual menus for the Finder. Fortunately, Automator gets us pretty close.
Oh, yeah, and since this is technically script writing, and since I haven't posted to that series in some time, we're gonna go ahead and call this a Script Sharing post. Deal with it.
Right. Good night.
UPDATE: Revised March 31, 2007, 3:00 PM
Stephan Cleaves has added yet another implementation of this idea. He's using a combination of Automator and AppleScript. I certainly think his implementation is better than mine in a few ways. Certainly more full-featured. It will prompt for a file name, for instance, and takes pains not to overwrite a preexisting file with the same name. Nice. But we're taking very different approaches to the same idea (his version places a file in the front-most Finder window, my version places it in the right-clicked folder), and he was confused by my approach. After speaking to him via comments on his blog, I realized that some clarification as to how my workflow is actually constructed might be in order.
Basically, my workflow takes the folder selected in the Finder as input and assigns that input to the variable "$@". That variable and the for loop in my workflow are automatically generated by Automator when you select "as arguments" from the "Pass input:" field in the "Do Shell Script" action. It's how you get the context (the selected folder) passed to the script. Apparently Automator takes "$@" as the variable for "the folder you just selected" whenever there's no input from a previous action. This was something I learned while fiddling around with all of this, and it's really my favorite part. The coolest thing for me here, really, was figuring out how to pass the context — i.e. the right-clicked folder — to an Automator "Do Shell Script" action. This opens up worlds of potential.
Finally, as I said, the for loop in the action is auto-generated by Automator. The workflow will work almost as well with the simple script:
touch "$@/NewText.txt"
Using the for loop, however, allows you to create a new text file in multiple folders by selecting said folders and running the workflow.
It's really kind of amazing how many ways there are to do this. Wow. Fun stuff.
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Backing Up with RsyncX
systemsboy December 3, 2006
In an earlier post I talked generally about my backup procedure for large amounts of data. In the post I discussed using RsyncX to back up staff Work drives over a network, as well as my own personal Work drive data, to a spare hard drive. Today I'd like to get a bit more specific.
Installing RsyncX
I do not use, nor do I recommend the version of rsync that ships with Mac OS X 10.4. I've found it, in my own personal tests, to be extremely unreliable, and unreliability is the last thing you want in a backup program. Instead I use — and have been using without issue for years now — RsyncX. RsyncX is a GUI wrapper for a custom-built version of the rsync command that's made to properly deal with HFS+ resource forks. So the first thing you need to do is get RsyncX, which you can do here. To install RsyncX, simply run the installer. This will place the resource-fork-aware version of rsync in /usr/local/bin/. If all you want to do is run rsync from the RsyncX GUI, then you're done, but if you want to run it non-interactively from the command-line — which ultimately we do — you should put the newly installed rsync command in the standard location, which is /usr/bin/.¹ Before you do this, it's always a good idea to make a backup of the OS X version. So:
sudo cp /usr/bin/rsync /usr/bin/rsync-ORIG
sudo cp /usr/local/bin/rsync /usr/bin/rsync
Ah! Much better! Okay. We're ready to roll with local backups.²
Local Backups
Creating local backups with rsync is pretty straightforward. The RsyncX version of the command acts almost exactly like the standard *NIX version, except that it has an option to preserve HFS+ resource forks. This option must be provided if you're interested in preserving said resource forks. Let's take a look at a simple rsync command:
/usr/bin/rsync -a -vv /Volumes/Work/ /Volumes/Backup --eahfs
This command will backup the contents of the Work volume to another volume called Backup. The -a flag stands for "archive" and will simply backup everything that's changed while leaving files that may have been deleted from the source. It's usually what you want. The -vv flag specifies "verbosity" and will print what rsync is doing to standard output. The level of verbosity is variable, so "-v" will give you only basic information, "-vvvv" will give you everything it can. I like "-vv." That's just the right amount of info for me. The next two entries are the source and target directories, Work and Backup. The --eahfs flag is used to tell rsync that you want to preserve resource forks. It only exists in the RsyncX version. Finally, pay close attention to the trailing slash in your source and target paths. The source path contains a trailing slash — meaning we want the command to act on the drive's contents, not the drive itself — whereas the target path contains no trailing slash. Without the trailing slash on the source, a folder called "Work" will be created inside the WorkBackup drive. This trailing slash behavior is standard in *NIX, but it's important to be aware of when writing rsync commands.
That's pretty much it for simple local backups. There are numerous other options to choose from, and you can find out about them by reading the rsync man page.
Network Backups
One of the great things about rsync is its ability to perform operations over a network. This is a big reason I use it at work to back up staff machines. The rsync command can perform network backups over a variety of protocols, most notably SSH. It also can reduce the network traffic these backups require by only copying the changes to files, rather than whole changed files, as well as using compression for network data transfers.
The version of rsync used by the host machine and the client machine must match exactly. So before we proceed, copy rsync to its default location on your client machine. You may want to back up the Mac OS X version on your client as well. If you have root on both machines you can do this remotely on the command line:
ssh -t root@mac01.systemsboy.com 'cp /usr/bin/rsync /usr/bin/rsync-ORIG'
scp /usr/bin/rsync root@mac01.systemsboy.com:/usr/bin/
Backing up over the network isn't too much different or harder than backing up locally. There are just a few more flags you need to supply. But the basic idea is the same. Here's an example:
/usr/bin/rsync -az -vv -e SSH mac01.systemsboy.com:/Volumes/Work/ /Volumes/Backups/mac01 --eahfs
This is pretty similar to our local command. The -a flag is still there, and we've added the -z flag as well, which specifies to use compression for the data (to ease network traffic). We now also have an -e flag which tells rsync that we're running over a network, and an SSH option that specifies the protocol to use for this network connection. Next we have the source, as usual, but this time our source is a computer on our network, which we specify just like we would with any SSH connection — hostname:/Path/To/Volume. Finally, we have the --eahfs flag for preserving resource forks. The easiest thing to do here is to run this as root (either directly or with sudo), which will allow you to sync data owned by users other than yourself.
Unattended Network Backups
Running backups over the network can also be
completely automated and can run transparently in the background even on systems where no user is logged in to the Mac OS X GUI. Doing this over SSH, of course, requires an SSH connection that does not interactively prompt for a password. This can be accomplished by establishing authorized key pairs between host and client. The best resource I've found for learning how to do this is Mike Bombich's page on the subject. He does a better job explaining it than I ever could, so I'll just direct you there for setting up SSH authentication keys. Incidentally, that article is written with rsync in mind, so there are lots of good rsync resources there as well. Go read it now, if you haven't already. Then come back here and I'll tell you what I do.
I'd like to note, at this point, that enabling SSH authentication keys, root accounts and unattended SSH access is a minor security risk. Bombich discusses this on his page to some extent, and I want to reiterate it here. Suffice to say, I would only use this procedure on a trusted, firewalled (or at least NATed) network. Please bear this in mind if you proceed with the following steps. If you're uncomfortable with any of this, or don't fully understand the implications, skip it and stick with local backups, or just run rsync over the network by hand and provide passwords as needed. But this is what I do on our network. It works, and it's not terribly insecure.
Okay, once you have authentication keys set up, you should be able to log into your client machine from your server, as root, without being prompted for a password. If you can't, reread the Bombich article and try again until you get it working. Otherwise, unattended backups will fail. Got it? Great!
I enable the root account on both the host and client systems, which can be done with the NetInfo Manger application in /Applications/Utilities/. I do this because I'm backing up data that is not owned by my admin account, and using root gives me the unfettered access I need. Depending on your situation, this may or may not be necessary. For the following steps, though, it will simplify things immensely if you are root:
su - root
Now, as root, we can run our rsync command, minus the verbosity, since we'll be doing this unattended, and if the keys are set up properly, we should never be prompted for a password:
/usr/bin/rsync -az -e SSH mac01.systemsboy.com:/Volumes/Work/ /Volumes/Backups/mac01 --eahfs
This command can be run either directly from cron on a periodic basis, or it can be placed in a cron-run script. For instance, I have a script that pipes verbose output to a log of all rsync activity for each staff machine I back up. This is handy to check for errors and whatnot, every so often, or if there's ever a problem. Also, my rsync commands are getting a bit unwieldy (as they tend to do) for direct inclusion in a crontab, so having the scripts keeps my crontab clean and readable. Here's a variant, for instance, that directs the output of rsync to a text file, and that uses an exclude flag to prevent certain folders from being backed up:
/usr/bin/rsync -az -vv -e SSH --exclude "Archive" mac01.systemsboy.com:/Volumes/Work/ /Volumes/Backups/mac01 --eahfs > ~/Log/mac01-backup-log.txt
This exclusion flag will prevent backup of anything called "Archive" on the top level of mac01's Work drive. Exclusion in rsync is relative to the source directory being synced. For instance, if I wanted to exclude a folder called "Do Not Backup" inside the "Archive" folder on mac01's Work drive, my rsync command would look like this:
/usr/bin/rsync -az -vv -e SSH --exclude "Archive/Do Not Backup" mac01.systemsboy.com:/Volumes/Work/ /Volumes/Backups/mac01 --eahfs > ~/Log/mac01-backup-log.txt
The above uses of rsync, as I mentioned before, will not delete files from the target that have been deleted from the source. They will only propagate changes that have occurred on the existing files, but will leave deleted files alone. They are semi-non-destuctive in this way, and this is often useful and desirable. Eventually, though, rsync backups will begin to consume a great deal of space, and after a while you may begin to run out. My solution to this is to periodically mirror my sources and targets, which can be easily accomplished with the --delete option. This option will delete any file from the target not found on the source. It does this after all other syncing is complete, so it's fairly safe to use, but it will require enough drive space to do a full sync before it does its thing. Here's our network command from above, only this time using the --delete flag:
/usr/bin/rsync -az -vv -e SSH --exclude "Archive/Do Not Backup" mac01.systemsboy.com:/Volumes/Work//Volumes/Backups/mac01 --delete --eahfs > ~/Log/mac01-backup-log.txt
Typically, I run the straight rsync command every other day or so (though I could probably get away with running it daily). I create the mirror at the end of each month to clear space. I back up about a half dozen machines this way, all from two simple shell scripts (daily and weekly) called by cron.
I realize that this is not a perfect backup solution. But it's pretty good for our needs, given what we can afford. And so far it hasn't failed me yet in four years. That's not a bad track record. Ideally, we'd have more drives and we'd stagger backups in such a way that we always had at least a few days backup available for retrieval. We'd also probably have some sort of backup to a more archival medium, like tape, for more permanent or semi-permanent backups. We'd also probably keep a copy of all this in some offsite, fireproof lock box. I know, I know. But we don't. And we won't. And thank god, 'cause what a pain in the
ass that must be. It'd be a full time job all its own, and not a very fun one. What this solution does offer is a cheap, decent, short-term backup procedure for emergency recovery of catastrophic data loss. Hard drive fails? No trouble. We've got you covered.
Hopefully, though, this all becomes a thing of the past when Leopard's Time Machine debuts. Won't that be the shit?
1. According to the RsyncX documentation, you should not need to do this, because the RsyncX installer changes the command path to its custom location. But if you'll be running the command over the network or as root, you'll either have to change that command path for the root account and on every client, or network backups will fail. It's much easier to simply put the modified version in the default location on each machine.
2. Updates to Mac OS X will almost always overwrite this custom version of rsync. So it's important to remember to replace it whenever you update the system software.
In Lab, MacOSX, NIX, Scripts, Systems
Scripts Part 6: Archiver
systemsboy November 30, 2006
A hint on MacOSXHints yesterday discussed using tar to create backups in Mac OS X. The poster was frustrated with the OS X-bundled version of the zip command, and confused by the way the Finder creates .zip files. Indeed, the Finder does not use the zip command to create its .zip files, and indeed it is confusing. And, more importantly, the zip command does not preserve all-impotant Mac OS X resource forks.
After reading this hint I was reminded of a script I wrote a while back based on yet another MacOSXHints hint that uses ditto to create Finder-like .zip archives. So it seemed like a good time to post the script here and add it to the waning ScriptSharing series.
So here it is: my Archive script. It will both archive and expand folders or files using ditto, and it places these archives on the Desktop.
Archiver Script
See the code
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Using SSH to Send Variables in Scripts
In July I posted an article about sending commands remotely via ssh. This has been immensely useful, but one thing I really wanted to use it for did not work. Sending an ssh command that contained a variable, via a script for instance, would always fail for me, because, of course, the remote machine didn't know what the variable was.
Let me give an example. I have a script that creates user accounts. At the beginning of the script it asks me to supply a username, among other things, and assigns this to a variable in the script called $username. Kinda like this:
echo "Please enter the username for the new user:"read username
Later in the script that variable gets called to set the new user's username, and a whole bunch of other parameters. Still later in the script, I need to send a command to a remote machine via ssh, and the command I'm sending contains the $username variable:
ssh root@home.account.server 'edquota -p systemsboy $username'
This command would set the quota of the new user $username on the remote machine to that of the user systemsboy. But every time I've tried to include this command in the script, it fails, which, if you think about it, makes a whole lot of sense. See, 'cause the remote machine doesn't know squat about my script, and when that command gets to the remote machine, the remote machine has no idea who in the hell $username is. The remote machine reads $username literally, and the command fails.
The solution to this is probably obvious to hard-core scripters, but it took me a bit of thinkin' to figure it out. The solution is to create a new variable that is comprised of the ssh command calling the $username variable, and then call the new variable (the entire command) in the script. Which looks a little something like this:
quota=`ssh -t root@home.account.server "edquota -p systemsboy $username"`echo "$quota"
So we've created a variable, called $quota, which is the entire ssh command, and then we've simply called that variable in the script. That $quota variable will have the $username variable already filled in, and the command will now succeed on the remote machine. One thing that's important to note here: generally the command being sent over ssh is enclosed in single-quotes. In this instance, however, it must be enclosed in double-quotes for the command to work. I also used the -t option in this example (which tells ssh that the session is interactive, and to wait until it's told to return to the local machine) but I don't actually think it's necessary in this case. Still, it shouldn't hurt to have it there, just in case something goes funky.
But so far nothing has gone funky. This seems to work great.
In NIX, Scripts, Systems

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You have to appreciate a place that will charge you over two hundred dollars per night to stay there and doesn't provide wifi, cel phone service, OR TELEVISION. We stayed at the Old Faithful Inn at Yellowstone park, which is just such a place. Never had a better time at a hotel in my life. Not having any way to amuse yourself by yourself actually forces you into society with other fellow low-tech humans.
The day we arrived at the hotel there had been an electrical emergency at the entire Old Faithful lodging area, which includes three hotels. Electricity was being rationed between the three campuses. Each hotel got three hours of electricity to get it's electrical needs met, then the power would go off for six hours.
Electricity rationing meant that the dining options for dinner our first night were the reduced options of the Old Faithful disaster plan–which was pretty damned good. Karen ordered meatloaf, and they brought her two gigantic slices. I order Osso Buco! They brought me an entire pork shank!
Dining from the reduced menu was no disadvantage at all. Now I know that I will be making osso buco very soon at my house. It was really good coming out of a crippled kitchen, I can't wait to see what it will be like coming out of my fully functional one.
As far as being able to eat on the road without having to get processed foods or mostly carb-based foods it hasn't been that tough. We had a great dinner last night at a five star restaurant in Bozeman Montana. We decided to get a dessert afterwards, which a person can do when they aren't eating sugar or carbohydrate in every bite they take or sip they drink.
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Home 2020 November 8 Health COVID-19: NCDC reports 59 new infections, total cases in Nigeria now 63,790
COVID-19: NCDC reports 59 new infections, total cases in Nigeria now 63,790
November 8, 2020 · by komolafe times ·
A total of 59 new infections of Coronavirus (COVID-19) has been reported in Nigeria in the last 24 hours, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
The NCDC made this known via its website on Saturday.
The NCDC, which has conducted about 681,599 tests since the first confirmed case was announced in the country, said that the new infections were recorded in eight states in the last 24 hours, however, with no death.
The health agency also announced that 40 patients had been successfully treated and discharged from isolation centres across the country in the last 24 hours.
The statistics released by the agency indicated that Kaduna State recorded the highest number of confirmed cases with 28 new infections, while Rivers, Ogun and Ondo had 9, 8 and 8 new infections respectively.
Kano and Niger had 2 cases each, while Kwara and Plateau also had 1 case each.
The NCDC said: "Till date, 63,790 cases have been confirmed, 59,884 cases discharged and 1,154 deaths recorded in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT."
The agency said that a multi-sectoral National Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), activated at Level 3, would continue to coordinate the national response activities.
Meanwhile, the NCDC has said that a sudden loss of taste and smell with fever, headache or runny nose may be COVID-19 symptoms.
"Please do not ignore these symptoms. Call your state hotline immediately to arrange for a test," it said.
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Racism in Brave New World
Seattle mom seeks ban of 'Brave New World'A parent asked the Seattle School Board to ban a classic novel, "Brave New World," arguing it's prejudicial to American Indians.
The school board Wednesday decided to postpone its decision on the 1932 novel by Aldous Huxley, saying it needed more time to deliberate and would again address the matter at a later meeting, Seattlepi.com and KUOW-TV, Seattle, reported.
Sarah Sense-Wilson, the mother of a student at Nathan Hale High School in Seattle, said her daughter was offended by the reading assignment.
"They left having an image of Indian people as being criminals, that we're to be feared, that we're scary, that we hold these ceremonies that are animalistic and brutal and violent," Sense-Wilson said.
Jack Miles, an English and religious studies professor at The University of California in Irvine and a member of the board of the Aldous and Laura Huxley Literary Trust, said, "(Huxley's) point is not to celebrate the white visitors and laugh at the Natives who are on the Reservation. It's rather to draw attention to the ways in which the larger society is the wilder and more depraved one."I read this book in high school but don't remember much about it. I have no recollection of its having an extended passage about Indians.
What it's about
For those of you like me, here's a summary:
Brave New World | IntroductionWritten in 1931 and published the following year, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a dystopian—or anti-utopian—novel. In it, the author questions the values of 1931 London, using satire and irony to portray a futuristic world in which many of the contemporary trends in British and American society have been taken to extremes. Though he was already a best-selling author, Huxley achieved international acclaim with this now-classic novel. Because Brave New World is a novel of ideas, the characters and plot are secondary, even simplistic. The novel is best appreciated as an ironic commentary on contemporary values.
The story is set in a London six hundred years in the future. People all around the world are part of a totalitarian state, free from war, hatred, poverty, disease, and pain. They enjoy leisure time, material wealth, and physical pleasures. However, in order to maintain such a smoothly running society, the ten people in charge of the world, the Controllers, eliminate most forms of freedom and twist around many traditionally held human values. Standardization and progress are valued above all else. These Controllers create human beings in factories, using technology to make ninety-six people from the same fertilized egg and to condition them for their future lives. Children are raised together and subjected to mind control through sleep teaching to further condition them. As adults, people are content to fulfill their destinies as part of five social classes, from the intelligent Alphas, who run the factories, to the mentally challenged Epsilons, who do the most menial jobs. All spend their free time indulging in harmless and mindless entertainment and sports activities. When the Savage, a man from the uncontrolled area of the world (an Indian reservation in New Mexico) comes to London, he questions the society and ultimately has to choose between conformity and death.Weak plot and characterization...that sounds about right. So what the hell is this book still doing on school reading lists? Because someone thought it was great once doesn't make it great forever.
25th-century Indians?
Brave New World takes place in the year 2495. By then I'd worry that the forces of acculturation and assimilation would've fully integrated Indians into the mainstream. That they'd be thoroughly modern citizens with few vestiges of their traditional cultures and religions. (Note to my dumber readers: This is a worry, not a hope or a prediction.)
Is that how Huxley saw the 25th century too? Not exactly. Below are some excerpts from Chapter 7. It features a fictional Pueblo tribe called the Malpais that's clearly modeled on the Hopi:She pointed to the Indian guide who had been appointed to take them up to the pueblo. Her feeling was evidently reciprocated; the very back of the man, as he walked along before them, was hostile, sullenly contemptuous.
A padding of soft feet made them turn round. Naked from throat to navel, their dark brown bodies painted with white lines ("like asphalt tennis courts," Lenina was later to explain), their faces inhuman with daubings of scarlet, black and ochre, two Indians came running along the path. Their black hair was braided with fox fur and red flannel. Cloaks of turkey feathers fluttered from their shoulders; huge feather diadems exploded gaudily round their heads. With every step they took came the clink and rattle of their silver bracelets, their heavy necklaces of bone and turquoise beads.
She liked even less what awaited her at the entrance to the pueblo, where their guide had left them while he went inside for instructions. The dirt, to start with, the piles of rubbish, the dust, the dogs, the flies. Her face wrinkled up into a grimace of disgust. She held her handkerchief to her nose.
An almost naked Indian was very slowly climbing down the ladder from the first-floor terrace of a neighboring house–rung after rung, with the tremulous caution of extreme old age. His face was profoundly wrinkled and black, like a mask of obsidian. The toothless mouth had fallen in.
Lenina was left to face the horrors of Malpais unaided. They came crowding in on her thick and fast.
They rounded a corner. A dead dog was lying on a rubbish heap; a woman with a goitre was looking for lice in the hair of a small girl.
Queer–yes. The place was queer, so was the music, so were the clothes and the goitres and the skin diseases and the old people.
For suddenly there had swarmed up from those round chambers underground a ghastly troop of monsters. Hideously masked or painted out of all semblance of humanity, they had tramped out a strange limping dance round the square; round and again round, singing as they went, round and round–each time a little faster; and the drums had changed and quickened their rhythm, so that it became like the pulsing of fever in the ears; and the crowd had begun to sing with the dancers, louder and louder; and first one woman had shrieked, and then another and another, as though they were being killed; and then suddenly the leader of the dancers broke out of the line, ran to a big wooden chest which was standing at one end of the square, raised the lid and pulled out a pair of black snakes.
The coyote-man raised his whip, there was a long moment of expectancy, then a swift movement, the whistle of the lash and its loud flat-sounding impact on the flesh. The boy's body quivered; but he made no sound, he walked on at the same slow, steady pace. The coyote struck again, again; and at every blow at first a gasp, and then a deep groan went up from the crowd. The boy walked. Twice, thrice, four times round he went. The blood was streaming. Five times round, six times round. Suddenly Lenina covered her face with her hands and began to sob. "Oh, stop them, stop them!" she implored. But the whip fell and fell inexorably. Seven times round. Then all at once the boy staggered and, still without a sound, pitched forward on to his face.
The door opened. A very stout blonde squaw stepped across the threshold and stood looking at the strangers staring incredulously, her mouth open. Lenina noticed with disgust that two of the front teeth were missing. And the colour of the ones that remained … She shuddered. It was worse than the old man. So fat. And all the lines in her face, the flabbiness, the wrinkles. And the sagging cheeks, with those purplish blotches. And the red veins on her nose, the bloodshot eyes. And that neck–that neck; and the blanket she wore over her head–ragged and filthy. And under the brown sack-shaped tunic those enormous breasts, the bulge of the stomach, the hips. Oh, much worse than the old man, much worse!Comment: Needless to say, I've never heard of any Native blood "sacrifice" conducted on young boys. Men, yes, but not boys. I also believe there are no Native ceremonies involving shrieking women.
These Indians aren't quite ready to get neural implants or join Starfleet. Or to surf the Net. Or to use cloth and metal. Do you think they'll get running water and electricity by the year 3000, or is that too much to hope for?
Indians stuck in the past
With these excerpts in mind...you've got to be kidding, Professor Miles. Does the Huxley Trust pay you to defend this tripe? This may be the most racist stereotyping ever in a work deemed a classic. Books such as Robinson Crusoe and Little House on the Prairie have nothing compared to this. Even Peter Pan isn't this bad.
This passage isn't about making the Indians look good so civilization looks bad. If anything, it's a pseudo-justification for keeping civilization safe, calm, and controlled. It's saying freedom is a kind of madness, like being a wild animal or Indian. It may be attractive to some, but others understandably will stick with technology and its creature comforts.
But it doesn't matter what Huxley's intent was. He grossly stereotyped the Indians of 1932. He did little or nothing to show their humanity. He certainly did nothing to show how they might've evolved and progressed to become members of Western society--as they've done since colonial times. As a portrayal of 600 years of ignorance and stagnation--Indians haven't even learned how to dispose of dead dogs!--it's repugnant.
Since Miles seems a bit clueless, I'm happy to inform him that this portrayal is pure racism. It adds nothing to Brave New World. Indeed, it subtracts from the book by making a case for a dystopia. If Huxley had wanted to make a natural lifestyle look good, he would've painted the Indians with positive stereotypes--i.e., as noble savages living in harmony with nature. Clearly he didn't do that.
This posting confirms what I recall: that Brave New World isn't a great book. Nowadays you could find hundreds of dystopian science-fiction novels as good as it or better. Therefore, I see no need for it to remain in the school curriculum.
For more on the subject, see Stereotypes in A Princess of Mars and Hopi in The Gods Laughed.
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reading it now. couldn't agree more. the book ain't that great. it just ain't.
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A tale of that state in the north
By Hazidi A. Hamid on 13 Dec 2018 • ( 1 Comment )
Note: the featured image is the flag of the old Sultanate of Kelantan
When I was in school, I often heard how my peers and even their parents hated history. The reason was simple: history was often associated with memorizing dates and people were often uncomfortable with numbers. Admittedly, for a time, I too felt this way. Then I read a few history books and I realised that, 'hey! These are story books and the tales they told were much more intriguing than works of fiction"
There was however a problem: the history taught in school was very limited and the stories they told were often mind-numbingly boring because they were tales that we had heard often. They coverage was very narrow, we learnt about Melaka and a little of other states. We did not hear much about such states as Kelantan. I wanted to know more about Kelantan and I found that literature on the state was scarce.
Kelantan is in the northeast of the Malay Peninsular. I think historical accounts of the state's history is scarce because they did not have a proper tradition of recording events back them. Earliest mention of the state can be found in Chinese and Thai records. Chinese records called the place Ch'ih t'u in the seventh century and Chi-lan-tan in the 13th century. Earliest Thai record of Kelantan was in 'Phongsawadan miiang Kelantan (chronicles of Kelantan) which is one of the texts in a collection called Sala Lukkhun (Balai mentri / a minister's court) circa 1914.
Kelantan was a centre of interest in the Siam-Britain dispute 1981-1910 which basically revolved around Siam's desire to expand southward which conflicted with the British policies in the norther states. Kelantan's history is inextricably linked to Siam / Thailand. Sultan Mansur who became the sultan in 1891 after a conflict involving himself, Tengku Long Senik and Tengku Petra (Long Ja'afar). Sultan Mansur was recognised by Bangkok as the Sultan in 1897 and referred to as Phya Phipit Pakdi. Tengku Long Senik became the Raja Muda / Raja Kelantan and referred to as Phya Decho.
Upon returning from Bangkok in 1894, the minister Dato' Maha Mentri was murdered. Three assailants were arrested by the Siamese authorities, Tuan Kundor, Awang Chik, and Ibrahim Chandu. They claimed to have been hired by the Sultan's brother, Tuan Long Mahmud. The Siamese authorities however did not take action on the accused. The books said that they did so because by releasing them, the Siamese could destabilize the region and thus making them dependent on Bangkok.
An example of this was when Sultan Mansur passed away in 1899. The ensuing threat of unrest prompted Bangkok to send three senior officials (Phya Sukhun, Kang Mirik, and Kang Pha) to maintain order until a new Sultan could be placed on the throne.
I was surprised to learn that the history of Kelantan is also inextricably linked to a company called the Duff Development company which was involved in commercial development and, consequently, political developments in the state. It's involvement was actually brought to the British parliament and later directly led to the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1902 which states in its Article 12 that Siam will not interrupt in commerce while the English shall not, "molest, attack, or disturb those states upon any pretense whatever". This line is important because it led to the Tok Janggut Rebellion of 1905.
The rebellion started when the British established a district office in Pasir Puteh then proceeded to disrupt the traditional trade, commerce, and interactions between Pasit Puteh, which is in Kelantan, with their traditional trading partners and closest neighbour, Terengganu. This also dislocated the authorities of the Jeram traditional chief and a rebellion ensued. It was led by Engku Besar of Jeram, Haji Mat Hassan aka To' Janggut of Nering, Penghulu Adam of Kelubi, Haji Sa'id of Cherang Tuli, and Inchek Sahak of Nering. It was called a rebellion because the British claimed to have been acting under the authority of the Crown which was under the influence of the British. This is a familiar theme if we read the history of colonial era.
The history of Kelantan is incredibly complex and this grossly simplified account is not even a drop in the ocean.
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Tipping MindZahari Hamidon says:
Interesting info AP Hazidi, do you think Merong Mahawangsa related to this?


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Kutai National Park
by Borneo Eco Adventure March 27, 2015 January 4, 2021
Kutai National Park is dominated by a Dipterocarpaceae lowland tropical rainforest and has 958 species of flora, including 8 of the world's 9 genus of Dipterocarpaceae family, 41 species of orchids and 220 species of medical plants. The other vegetation types include coastal mangrove forest, freshwater swamp forest and kerangas forest. The National park provides habitat to 10 species of primates, 90 species of mammals and 300 species of birds. They include orangutan, Malayan sun bear, sambar deer, wild ox, maroon leaf monkey, white-fronted leaf monkey, Hose's leaf monkey, proboscis monkey, Bornean gibbon, clouded leopard, black flying squirrel, marbled cat, flat-headed cat, yellow-throated marten, otter civet, and smooth-coated otter. The number of orangutans was found to have decreased dramatically, from 600 recorded in 2004 to about 60 in 2009. However a survey conducted in 2010 identified over 2,000 orangutans live this national park.
Day 01 ARRIVAL IN SAMARINDA – KABO VILLAGE – KUTAI NATIONAL PARK
Arrive at Samarinda airport with morning flight and directly driving across villages, rainforest, and mountainous landscape to reach Kabo village for crossing up the river to Prevab camp of Kutai National Park and then trekking to the jungle to spot wild orangutans, monkeys, birds, insects, etc. Return to the camp for overnight. (L,D)
After breakfast, we will be trekking in different path of the jungle to spot more wild orangutans and other wildlife. Return to the camp for lunch and take a rest. In the afternoon, we will trek again but in the different trails to observe the magnificent flora and fauna of the national park. In the peaceful evening, we will have a night trekking for observing nocturnal animals such as tarantula, insects, birds, and others. Return to the camp for overnight. Lunch and dinner will be served at the camp. (B,L,D)
Breakfast at the jungle camp and then crossing downward the river into Delta Sangatta to spot estuarine crocodile, proboscis monkeys, silvery langurs, monitor lizards, and other wild animals that hang around the riverside. (B,L,D)
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01 Night at 3 stars hotel in Samarinda
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Sue Lines
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I rise tonight to report on an amazing experience that I shared with Linda Burney, the member for Barton, and Senator Malarndirri McCarthy a couple of weeks ago up in the Pilbara. We had the absolute privilege and honour to meet with 100 women from right across the Pilbara. We met on the lands of the Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi peoples in Roebourne. We met at the cultural centre. We met with women to talk about and listen to the issues of concern to them.
I really want to pay tribute tonight to the amazing women in the Pilbara who assisted us and participated on the day. Thank you to Aunty Elaine Clifton, who welcomed us so warmly to country. Thank you also to Josie Alec and Jolleen Hicks, who worked with us before the event and during the event. Watching them as potential leaders and emerging leaders working with the other women and seeing the respect that they received across the room was absolutely amazing. They are true leaders. Josie led us at the end of the day in a song in language. She's quite an accomplished country singer. Look her up. She's definitely worth listening to.
We had Aboriginal women scribing on the day. I would like to thank Aunty Joyce Drummond, Esther Montgomery, Val Ross, Julie Walker, Natasha Walker, Shanine Ryan and Michelle Adams, who so freely gave their time and made sure that the day worked. The women wanted us to record and listen to their issues around health and wellbeing; education and youth; culture, country and language; housing and homelessness. These are topics that, in consultation with the women, we put together on the day. We've just about finished writing the report. The report will go back to those women and we will develop together a roadmap for trying to achieve some change that's so desperately needed by these women. They want to make sure that services they receive from government are culturally safe for the region and that service providers are trained in how to operate in a culturally appropriate manner. They want to create opportunities for local Aboriginal members of the community to be trained and provided with leadership roles in different services rather than just flying someone in and flying someone out who has no rapport with the community. Women told us that the white government cars leave communities on Friday and come back on Monday.
They want their youth to be healthy, they want them to be educated and, most importantly, they want them to have access to their own language. We heard women speak passionately about the need to learn language when what's offered in their school is Japanese or Indonesian. Those are well respected languages, but their own native language is not offered. It's time we stopped doing that. Let's make Indigenous languages available for kids to learn. They want the perpetual funding cycle—having to reapply every two to three years—to stop. They want to see long-term funding for programs so that they can get answers to issues, put real policy decisions in place and know that they can create real change, because they would not be having the funding base forever changed.
During the lunchbreak we had a film presented to us by a local woman called May Byrne—Gunthay to Gunthay, which means 'Grandmother to Grandchild'—and we saw the beautiful relationship that May has with her grandchild as she took the child out on country and taught the child about country. The film was made in May's country at Karijini National Park.
The women eagerly supported the forum. Many of them said it hadn't been done before. We had women from not just Roebourne but Wickham, Port Hedland, South Hedland, Karratha and Yandeyarra. We thank the Aboriginal-led organisations that made sure the women got there. We also thank Yara Pilbara, AAB Australia and the WA Labor Party for so generously sponsoring the events, because, obviously, things don't just happen; they need to be well funded. I look forward to a continued relationship with these women. I'm very excited about going back and presenting our report to them and developing our roadmap.
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65daysofstatic Return With New Album 'replicr, 2019'
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It's due out on September 27th...
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Sheffield experimental titans 65daysofstatic will release new album 'replicr, 2019' on September 27th.
The new record is the band's first official studio album since 2013's 'Wild Light', although they did supply an extensive array of new compositions for a lavish game soundtrack, released in 2016 as 'No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe'.
New record 'replicr, 2019' is a reaction of sorts to the working methods that pervaded that soundtrack project, a refined, focussed album clocking in at 42 minutes.
Featuring 14 tracks, 'replicr, 2019' directly plugs itself into the world around it, even down to having the year in its title.
Drummer Rob Jones explains: "This was supposed to be the future, but that future got cancelled. History is moving but it's got nowhere to go. It's piling up all around us. That's what this record is about. This atemporality is an illusion, it's the cultural logic of late capitalism, consuming everything faster and faster, each artefact a more diluted replica of the last. Even the idea that 'pop will eat itself' is eating itself. We need to find a way out."
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Headlines summary as of 1 February 2022
Newly confirmed cases
Total Cases
Hospitalised/ intensive care patients
Domestic +8,456
Abroad+131
Total recovered patients
( since 1 Jan 2022)
Total vaccination
1st dose vaccine recipients (from 28 Jan-1 Feb)
2nd dose vaccine recipients
(from 28 Jan-1 Feb)
3rd dose vaccine recipients (from 28 Jan-1 Feb)
115,531,164 (+274,648)
(+26,276)
(+197,680)
Source : Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA)
Covid-19 situation in Thailand / change regulation
People who want to have a third or fourth Covid-19 shot at the vaccination centre at Bang Sue Grand Station can choose to have a lighter-dose intradermal injection;15mcg or 30mcg of vaccine per dose, and intradermal injections with a 10mcg/dose Bangkokpost Springnews
Dr Yong Poovorawan,outspoken virologist expert said in his Facebook page yesterday that children should receive mRNA (Pfizer) and/or inactivated (Sinovac and Sinopharm) vaccines adding that Thai FDA approve inactivated vaccines for children as soon as possible Thenation
Dr. Opas Karnkawinpong, Director-general of Control Disease department, Ministry of Public Heath confirmed that inactivated Chinese vaccine, Sinovac has enough storage for children from 3-17 years old. Currently, Sivonac for children is waiting for the approval by Thai FDA Workpoint
The Prime Minister expressed readiness for a censure motion over its handling of economic issues including rising public debt, the COVID-19 outbreak, corruption and the African Swine Flu outbreak . The centure motion will be organized on February 17-18 following a motion filed by opposition Pheu Thai Party leader Chonlanan and 173 MPs under Section 152 of the Constitution. Mathichon Thenation
Paiboon Nititawan, the Deputy Head of Palangpracharat party insisted the loss of Palangpracharat in the Sunday's by-election could not guarantee that the party will defeat other constituencies. Constituency 9 is only one of the total 400 constituencies nationwide under 2-ballot electoral system that will be adopted in next year's election. He also confirmed that there would be no parliament dissolution. Thestandard
The cabinet on Tuesday approved the draft of a Prime Minister's Office regulation to set up three centres to crack down on fake news and false information on social media in different levels. The Provincial Administration Department under the Interior Ministry will also set up such centres in each province with provincial governors or deputy provincial governors are responsible Bangkokpost Thestandard
Tony Woodsome on Clubhouse (1 February 2022)
Tony Woodsome, known as the former Prime Minister who lives in exile, Thaksin Shinawatra spoke in the clubhouse organized by Care group last night .He shared interesting points, including his though on the government stability as follows;
He said that the Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha might not have too long to stay in office , and call for Prayut to dissolve the Lower House if he loves the country.
He pointed that the current government is in a feeble state in terms of the ability to run national administration as the ruling party that supports him is losing its strength.
As a result, the public's confidence in the government has been declining and no one is confident to invest in Thailand. He then urged Gen Prayut to dissolve the parliament if he loves the country and allow the public to decide.
Tony predicted that after the next general election, the Palang Pracharat Party (PPRP) will become divided.
Its members will be from one another. This can be seen from the current state in which the Thammanat Prompao, former PPRP Secretary-general led MPs in his control faction to a new party,
Adding on to that, Tony pointed that the switching back to a 2-ballot system in the next election may prevent PPRP members from setting up new parties because the new election system will strengthen the political system.
He also predicted that the election will be held by mid of 2022.
Lastly, he emphasized that Prayut, the Premier and Thammanat , the former PPRP secretary were not his enemy especially Thammanat who once was a member of Pheu Thai party, whom he has a affiliation with. Mathichon Voicetv
Following the prolonged protest by P-Move, the land rights activists group at the government house, the cabinet today approved in principle 15 points that the groups demand to ensure the basic rights of ethnic minorities to land settlement, community land title deeds and settlement of land disputes with the State Railway of Thailand and with Ban Bang Kloi land in Kaeng Krachan national park. ThaiPBS Bangkokpost
Akara Mine
In an exclusive interview with Prachachart Turakij newspaper, DG Niran Yingmahisaranon of the Basic Industrial and Mining Department, Ministry of Industry, shared the details of Thailand's negotiations with Kingsgate Consolidated which ran in parallel with the TAFTA tribunal in Singapore.
DG Niran said Kingsgate is not concerned about the Thai government using Article 44 to suspend Chatree mine's operations, rather the company felt it was bullied and not given justice. Kingsgate suing the Thai government is a 'misunderstanding' that could be settled between both countries, according to DG Niran. The Thai government had closed the mine simply because of environmental concerns which needed investigation.
The Thai government had granted the licenses for Chatree mine to reopen because Kingsgate demonstrated it is willing to comply with the new rules set under Thailand's Mineral Act 2017. In complying with the new law, Akara mine had agreed to set up a 'fund' to care for the health of the villagers as well as to develop the areas around the mine. The mine will also develop a new database on health and environment, which will be developed in accordance with the Thai requirements.
This will solve the environmental concerns raised by local villagers. The Thai government did not grant licenses to Kingsgate in order to convince the company to drop the lawsuit against Thailand. Source: Prachachart Turakij
In this editorial, the author commented that the Thai government will be required to pay compensation to Kingsgate for the losses stemming from the suspension of its operation for 5 years. The compensation which the Thai government will pay may not be as high as Kingsgate's demand of 750 million USD (30 billion Baht) for violating TAFTA rules, but the sum will be hefty. The author asked if the payment for this sum will be from the people's tax, wherein Thais are being unfairly implicated in the matter. Source: Prachachart Turakij
The Network of People for Reform of Mineral Resources has called on DPM Wissanu to explain why the government allowed Akara Resources to resume operations at Chatree gold mine, calling the decision a historic stain on Thailand. Source: The Nation
Cabinet's Decisions, 1 February 2022
Approved for the government to allocate a budget of 60 billion baht for this year's state welfare card scheme for 20 million registrants. Registration is to begin in Q3, with cardholders scheduled to receive monthly payment in October. MoF estimated that the number of eligible applicants will be closer to 17 million.
Agreed to allow employees insured under Section 40 of the Social Security Act to further reduce their monthly contributions to the Social Security Fund (SSF) for another 6 months, from Feb 1 to July 31. Source: Bangkok Post newspaper, 2 February 2022; Krungthep Turakij newspaper, 2 February 2022
Questions are being raised of the 10-year Long Term Resident visa will be sufficiently effective and attractive to woo wealthy foreigners. Property developers lamented the Interior Ministry's scrapping of the proposal to increase foreign ownership quota for condominium beyond 49 percent. However, it will not impact the condominium market because the current 49 percent quota has not been reached. The scrapping of the extension of leasehold rights from 30 years to 50 years will have an impact as it could make investments in large-scale projects for leasehold land more attractive and drive higher demand from foreigners. Source: Bangkok Post
Commerce Ministry has made preparations to help Thai exporters enjoy preferential tariff for exporting to South Korea after its RCEP membership takes effect on 1 February. Commerce Ministry has its system for certifying the country of origin of Thai goods exported to South Korea. Source: The Nation
The Bank of Thailand has rolled out a public consultation session for its plan to revolutionise the financial landscape, entitled Repositioning Thailand's Financial Sector for a Sustainable Digital Economy. The paper focuses on 3 new directions including digitisation, the environment (green loan) and free competition for new players, such as virtual banks and start-ups. The public consultation runs until the end of February. Sources Bangkok Post Krungthep Turakij
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