• OPINION

  Climate change urgency grows

  Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 01/07/2019

  » Climate change is global in nature but it is having an especially severe impact on Asia. Chennai, one of India's largest cities, has run out of water as the summer heat intensifies. With monsoon rains below average, four lakes in the city of 4.7 million have dried up. Residents don't have enough water to drink, bathe or wash clothes, malls have closed their washrooms and restaurants are not open for customers.

• BUSINESS

  Scaling political mountains

  Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 25/07/2016

  » Park Won-soon is no stranger to Thailand, which he visited 10 times before taking office in 2011 as the highly popular mayor of Seoul. He even has business cards with his name and position written in Thai, a small touch but an example of how he likes to relate to people in the other countries he visits.

• BUSINESS

  Exploring the options

  Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 02/03/2015

  » As Thailand takes a three-month respite from the noisy debate over oil and gas exploration, all sides involved hope that the time will be used to come up with a system that promotes energy security and is fair to the public and business alike.

• OPINION

  Myanmar's twin crises loom

  Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 01/08/2022

  » While the rest of the world continues to be preoccupied by Covid-19 and fallout from Russia-Ukraine war, the downward spiral of Myanmar continues. A once-promising frontier market risks slipping into a Sri Lanka-like economic crisis, exacerbating the humanitarian crisis created by the cruelty of its military junta.

• BUSINESS

  Chinese policies hold back growth

  Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 24/01/2022

  » When I first heard a Moody's economist discuss the cooling Chinese economy late last year, it caught my interest but not much. As we have been living with a pandemic for two years, an economic slowdown seems unavoidable, even in the country that has been the world's engine of growth for years.

• BUSINESS

  Xi-Biden summit a hopeful sign

  Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 15/11/2021

  » As the US and China stake out rival security strategies in the Asia-Pacific region, notably on Taiwan, the world takes heart from comments by Chinese President Xi Jinping that Beijing is ready to manage differences with Washington as the leaders of the two superpowers prepare to meet virtually today, the first since US President Joe Biden took office in January.

• BUSINESS

  Asean's bold Myanmar move

  Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 25/10/2021

  » The whole world is now looking at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in hope that the regional group is ready to carry a bigger stick in addressing the crisis facing one of its members -- Myanmar.

• BUSINESS

  Helping women from the ground up

  Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 15/03/2021

  » We women have had a couple of things to celebrate lately. The first thing that comes to my mind is the Japanese government's decision last Tuesday -- the day after International Women's Day -- to nominate Junko Nakagawa to the board of the Bank of Japan (BoJ).

• BUSINESS

  Dark cloud over Myanmar

  Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 08/02/2021

  » My first feeling after waking up last Monday and hearing about the military takeover in Myanmar is hard to explain, but it was certainly disappointing to see such a setback for Thailand's next-door neighbour.

• BUSINESS

  Marriage for everyone

  Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 13/07/2020

  » Since my university days, I have had a number of gay friends, most of whom are living happily either in Thailand or abroad. But only recently have I started to see a major shift of attitudes in Thai society toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.

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