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  • OPINION

    Time to leverage big data for the public good

    News, Published on 02/11/2022

    » The digital age has taught businesses to see people as individuals rather than just as members of certain demographic cohorts. On social media, we receive personalised ads based on our responses to previous ads, our current location, and our shopping habits. Our massive digital footprint enables companies to know precisely how effective their advertising campaigns are at the individual level and to derive immense value from this knowledge.

  • OPINION

    Rape no minor issue

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 28/09/2022

    » Re: "Boarding school told to punish suspected rapists", (BP, Sept 27).

  • OPINION

    Achieving 'Earth for All' will take collective effort

    Oped, Published on 19/07/2022

    » In 1972, the United Nations held its first-ever environmental summit in Stockholm. In the run-up to the event, a group of scientists wrote The Limits to Growth, a report for the Club of Rome that became an unlikely bestseller.

  • OPINION

    Globalisation: a well-managed decline required

    Oped, Published on 02/06/2022

    » The World Economic Forum's first meeting in more than two years was markedly different from the many previous Davos conferences that I have attended since 1995. It was not just that the bright snow and clear skies of January were replaced by bare ski slopes and a gloomy May drizzle. Rather, it was that a forum traditionally committed to championing globalisation was primarily concerned with globalisation's failures: broken supply chains, food- and energy-price inflation, and an intellectual-property (IP) regime that left billions without Covid-19 vaccines just so that a few drug companies could earn billions in extra profits.

  • LIFE

    Paying a heavy price

    Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 25/10/2021

    » Smokers are now paying higher prices for their nicotine cravings after retailers and convenience stores made adjustments last week after the introduction of a controversial new excise tax structure earlier this month to curb smoking.

  • BUSINESS

    PayPal suspension to hit Thais amid tough market

    Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 08/02/2022

    » Global online payment PayPal is scheduled to suspend most services for consumers, freelancers and sole proprietors in Thailand from March 7 as it is seeking ways to comply with Thai regulations.

  • OPINION

    Moral conundrum

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 15/01/2022

    » Re: "Bill on media council gets cabinet nod," (BP, Jan 13). When we read in "Bill on media council gets cabinet nod" that "the exercise of media freedoms must not infringe on social mores", all who value good public morals will be deeply concerned. This must be so since being a social mores never has and cannot of itself guarantee that any belief, custom, or attitude is morally good.

  • BUSINESS

    Capping carbon

    Asia focus, Pattama Kuentak, Published on 12/07/2021

    » While the world has been fighting the prolonged Covid-19 pandemic, the global emergency posed by climate change is growing more alarming. Powerful nations are rolling out plans and policies to weather the crisis and hoping to bring the rest of the world into line.

  • BUSINESS

    E-service tax poised to surpass B5bn

    Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 22/02/2021

    » The Revenue Department expects tax revenue collection from the upcoming e-service tax to tally more than 5 billion baht per year as the pandemic crisis has stirred traffic on online platforms.

  • OPINION

    Protecting Pareena

    News, Postbag, Published on 16/11/2019

    » Re: "Pareena saga a test of land reform resolve", (Opinion, Nov 15).

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