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Don't rely on last year's trends for global economy
Oped, Published on 16/01/2024
» Behavioural economists have popularised the term "recency bias" to describe our tendency to be disproportionately influenced by the latest events compared to earlier ones. Could this cognitive phenomenon explain why numerous analysts have a rather optimistic tilt for the world economy in 2024? Or are there really positive trends counterbalancing the obvious and mounting challenges to global growth?
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Heed drought warning signs
Editorial, Published on 30/07/2023
» After what seemed like an eternity under the scorching heat because of the massive heatwave that began earlier in the year, the monsoon has finally arrived, bringing with it some respite in the form of overcast skies and late evening downpours.
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'Little people' battling big fires
Oped, Paskorn Jumlongrach, Published on 09/04/2020
» It was a hot afternoon but community leader Prue Odochao, his wife, and a group of 10 ethnic Karen villagers rushed from their houses. Their destination was a forest area being razed by bushfires.
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Win-win in Bang Saen
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 02/09/2019
» A recent article on Thailand's Bang Saen seaside town undergoing a major makeover to accommodate an ageing society put a smile on my face as the reality of reaching the day I become a senior citizen fast approaches.
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Mount Everest 'traffic jam' needs action
News, Aditya Rana, Published on 02/06/2019
» In 1852, Bengali surveyor and mathematician Radhanath Sikhdar, who was employed by the British under the ambitious Trigonometrical Survey of Indian subcontinent project, proclaimed "Peak XV" as the highest point on Earth at 8,840 metres.
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Recognition fight continues for indigenous peoples
News, Published on 17/08/2017
» Having signed the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, Thailand recognises the concept of indigeneity, i.e., native peoples. Yet, presently in Thailand, the state does not acknowledge being home to indigenous peoples. This oversight must be addressed.
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Put meat on bike laws
News, Postbag, Published on 03/12/2016
» Re: "Children told not to drive motorbikes", (BP, Nov 30).
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Serving up cruelty, a taste of 'Thainess'
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 20/08/2016
» The debate on the meaning of "Thainess" always fills me with patriotism and stomach ache. After last week's bombings, the army chief warned us to look out for people who wore hats, glasses and carried backpacks, because "Thais don't do that". The general meant well -- that we should watch out for suspicious agents of terror -- but the way he framed it was a crass, militaristic way of monopolising the definition of something that is shifting, malleable, even undefinable.
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Don't worry, 'Pokemon Go' is only a fad
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 14/08/2016
» Just when you think the world cannot get any more insane, along comes Pokemon Go. The less I say about it, probably the better, as gamers might suggest, heaven forbid, that I'm a bit old-fashioned, or to use the correct technical term, "a stupid old git".
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We've been emoti-conned
Life, Published on 10/06/2014
» We’d had a vicious fight, angry and tear-streaked and brutal and personal. She threw a vase; I upended a table. Snarling, she ripped a phone book in half; I karate-chopped through a plate glass window. She bit me, hard, on the elbow, causing blood to well up in carmine, tooth-shaped beads. So I yanked her ponytail.
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