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    Port saga never ends

    News, Editorial, Published on 17/04/2024

    » Governments have tried to move Bangkok Port in Klong Toey to Laem Chabang deep-sea port in Chon Buri province many times.

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    More skywalk please

    Published on 01/04/2024

    » I would like to thank the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration for the increase in green space all over the city, with beautiful parks that are well maintained at all times.

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    What Modi has figured out that Trump never has

    News, Mihir Sharma, Published on 21/03/2024

    » Excitement and uncertainty used to accompany general elections in India. Polls swung back and forth, coalitions formed and reformed, analysts dissected policy platforms and assessed the prospects of hundreds of individual candidates. As India embarked on its 18th general election campaign on Tuesday, there is no electricity in the air. It is hard to find anyone who believes Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lose his bid for a third term in office.

  • News & article

    Time to streamline

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 19/03/2024

    » Re: "Literacy hurdles", (PostBag, March 15).

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    Let's design a future-fit world

    Oped, Published on 12/03/2024

    » With digital technologies rapidly advancing across the world's most populated region, now is the time for Asia and the Pacific to lead the charge for empowering women and girls in science and technology.

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    Time to stop making empty promises

    Oped, Chartchai Parasuk, Published on 07/03/2024

    » The Nikkei 225 Index just broke 40,000, surpassing the record high of 1989. The stellar stock market performance happened amid the fact that Japan's economy is officially in recession after two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth.

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    Give women farm sector power

    Oped, Published on 06/03/2024

    » Despite women's significant contributions to our agrifood systems in the Asia-Pacific region, women continue to face persistent obstacles, including limited access to resources, services, and discriminatory practices all along the food value chain. As we gather to celebrate this year's International Women's Day (IWD), it is time for action to fully recognise women's indispensable role in the fields, in the factories, and those running small and medium-sized companies, associations and cooperatives -- all of which produce the nutritious food we eat each day.

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    A new policy agenda for Asia

    Oped, Published on 01/02/2024

    » The global economic landscape is changing fast. Scarring from the Covid-19 pandemic has weakened potential growth, making slower income gains the new normal for many countries.

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    Rights, freedoms hang in balance

    Oped, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 30/12/2023

    » The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) capped 2023 by celebrating its 75th birthday just before the year's end. As the seminal UN document on human rights, it is closely linked with the four freedoms: namely, freedom of expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. Where are we in that long march towards their realisation?

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    Dear Santa: Please send $14 billion

    Oped, Chartchai Parasuk, Published on 02/11/2023

    » What Thailand needs is money, money -- and money. The government needs 560 billion baht to run its 10,000 baht cash handout programme next year, and the country needs (at least) 420 billion baht to prevent the 4th quarter economy from collapsing.

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