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    Trump, Southeast Asia and Thailand

    News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 20/01/2017

    » No newly inaugurated president of the United States in the contemporary era is more controversial nor as derided as Donald Trump. Already, there have been pre-inauguration insinuations and plots among his critics and detractors to see him eventually impeached or at least occupy the White House for only one term. Without much experience in public service, the real-estate tycoon catapulted himself into American political life, and his country's electoral system produced him as the winner in the election last November, even though he lost the popular vote to his opponent by more than 2.8 million votes out of 128.8 million.

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    Davos rich see their world collapsing

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 20/01/2017

    » 'I can't wait to see how the incoming administration deals with AI [artificial intelligence]," said US Secretary of State John Kerry, in a less-than-gracious reference to the fact that the Trump team hasn't got a clue about the real driving force in the changing world economy.

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    Providing kids a better education in our small schools

    News, Published on 21/01/2017

    » During a recent trip to Udon Thani, we visited several small schools on the outskirts of the city. In several ways, these small schools were typical of Thailand's 15,000 schools with less than 120 students.

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    THAI must unravel corruption claim

    News, Editorial, Published on 22/01/2017

    » They said corruption leaves no receipts. The damning revelation by Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) regarding alleged bribery by engineering giant Rolls-Royce to "agents of the state of Thailand and employees of THAI Airways" to influence purchases of its engines is as good as one.

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    Beer biz will lose fizz unless we hone craft

    News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 25/01/2017

    » When I read the news about a law graduate being arrested on Saturday for "illegally" brewing and selling his beer at his home in Nonthaburi, my tastebuds tingled at the prospect of sampling his beer.

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    Making big data corruption's worst enemy

    News, Published on 25/01/2017

    » In the last decade or so, the world has witnessed an unprecedented explosion in the quantity of information available as our ability to generate and store data rocketed through the stratosphere. This availability of a seemingly infinite amount of information, known as "big data", has fundamentally altered the traditional way of doing business in many industries.

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    Thailand must clean up its act

    News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 29/01/2017

    » On Wednesday the government of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha saw a bombshell drop in its lap when Transparency International announced the corruption rankings for 176 countries.

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    Local voting offers clues to reconciliation

    News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 30/01/2017

    » The charter drafting process is dragging on. Again. Another national reconciliation effort -- which have historically led to irreconcilable differences -- is back on the horizon. Again. These hurdles are enough to make many of us wonder whether a general election will occur as the junta promised. This year? Next year?

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    Rolls-Royce probe debacle is embarrassing

    News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 30/01/2017

    » Too many cooks spoil the broth. It is the reason Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam stepped in to instruct various parties, with the exception of the National Anti-Corruption Commission, to stop seeking information about the Rolls-Royce bribery scandal from the United Kingdom's Serious Fraud Office (SFO).

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    The worsening settlement quagmire

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 29/12/2016

    » Israel's Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu is very cross about last Friday's United Nations Security Council resolution condemning the creation of illegal Jewish settlements all over the occupied West Bank and in East Jerusalem.

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