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  • OPINION

    Combatting fake news the Asean way

    Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 06/06/2023

    » Three weeks have passed since the general election, and the Thai media is still flooded with fake news and disinformation of all kinds. Essentially, these are designed to harm a particular individual, a political group or the country. Overall, the country's domestic environment is very fluid. Aside from efforts to form a new coalition government, the most important issues are related to national security and diplomacy.

  • OPINION

    Asean must use power

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 27/06/2020

    » Re: "Asean must walk the walk," (Editorial, June 26).

  • OPINION

    Asean's fight on haze needs rethink

    News, Published on 08/05/2023

    » Recent land and forest fires have brought haze back after several years of relatively clear skies, which coincided with Covid-19 slowdowns.

  • OPINION

    When Asean just isn't Asean enough

    News, Johanna Son, Published on 13/09/2018

    » China's bullying may be the first of Asean's headaches to come to mind, but its weakest links are those that have been gnawing away at its insides -- and undermining its members' own "Asean-ness".

  • OPINION

    Thailand gets ready to take Asean chair

    News, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 13/11/2018

    » A decade after living through the devastating experience of the 2009 Asean summit, the kingdom will have another chance to regain its regional leadership and reputation. Singapore will pass the baton to Thailand on Nov 15 as the Asean chair. Although the official role will kick off in January, Bangkok will get the ball rolling immediately.

  • OPINION

    Ten ways to sidestep fault lines in Asean

    News, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 27/03/2018

    » Given the unsettled international environment, great powers' competition and regional dynamism, the current Asean chair, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, urged the regional grouping to "maintain its centrality and relevance" in his recent speech at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

  • OPINION

    Asean needs Thailand

    News, Postbag, Published on 10/08/2017

    » Re: "Time for Thailand to step in and lead Asean (again)," (Opinion, Aug 7).

  • OPINION

    Too brutal for Asean

    News, Editorial, Published on 04/01/2016

    » The shocking photos and video of last week's whippings in Indonesia's Aceh province have refocused attention on a serious problem within Asean. On the eve of the Asean community becoming an economic union, a woman and five men were caned in public in Banda Aceh. Four were whipped for gambling and a couple were caned for "indecency". Such barbarity has no place in a modernising and progressive Asean Community (AC), which was formed to bring prosperity.

  • OPINION

    Asean nears its Thucydides trap turning point

    News, Published on 14/10/2019

    » In the whirlwind of the 554 officially listed events which marked the start of the UN General Assembly debates in New York two weeks ago, the concern raised by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres -- that the world is moving towards a Great Fracture -- was understandably lost in the cacophony.

  • OPINION

    Thoughts on Asean

    News, Postbag, Published on 04/02/2019

    » While the domestic concern for Thais is the upcoming general election on March 24, broadly speaking it is a relatively small geopolitical event.

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