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    Managing expectations

    News, Editorial, Published on 23/06/2016

    » Myanmar's democracy icon Aung Sang Suu Kyi returns to Thailand Thursday to meet several thousand of her countrymen and women working in Samut Sakhon province's Mahachai district. The last time she visited Myanmar workers in Thailand was in 2012.

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    Forced to wed a mysterious charter bride

    News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 14/07/2016

    » At the beginning of a relationship, an unknown or ambiguous thing about a person whom we are attracted to usually excites us. Once the relationship gets more serious, we usually need to know the unknown and understand the ambiguity before committing ourselves further, let's say, to a marriage.

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    Regime's war on graft mustn't discriminate

    News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 14/07/2016

    » A day after Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi visited Samut Sakhon to meet with thousands of her compatriots in the country's western fishery province amid a chaotic reception, National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) chief and Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha signed an order to transfer the provincial governor and three other senior provincial officials to inactive positions with immediate effect.

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    Slice of NYC in Bangkok? Not for me

    News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 22/06/2016

    » I've never been to New York. But I don't think I have to travel that far to get a glimpse of the iconic American city now that a local land developer plans to redesign my neighbourhood, Sam Yan, into a Thai version of it.

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    All that glitters in CLMV markets is not gold

    News, Sutapa Amornvivat, Published on 22/06/2016

    » At the annual SCB EIC Conference held earlier this month, I mentioned the exuberant growth of our neighbours: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) as a catalyst for service businesses in Thailand. Recently, our government has also initiated a business council among CLMV and Thailand to facilitate information sharing and troubleshoot trade and investment challenges facing private investors. This is a good effort to find a new source of growth to revitalise the Thai economy.

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    Mismanaged BRT can and should thrive

    News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 13/07/2016

    » On Monday morning, I heard a radio spot by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) which encouraged Bangkokians to give up their private vehicles for public transport given increasing convenience due to an efficient city network.

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    Army doesn't share commitment to anti-torture bill

    News, Published on 24/06/2016

    » The decision of the army's security body not to withdraw legal action against three human rights advocates for their report on torture in the Deep South has potentially reduced the government's stance against this kind of violent act to a form of lip service.

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    Klity offers lessons for us all

    News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 18/07/2016

    » The scene is almost deja vu: A group of Karen villagers dressed in traditional costume and their representative lawyers clad in solemn suits hold their hands high in victory. The location is the Supreme Court. Journalists rush to interview them and file reports that read: "Klity villagers win court battle". Again.

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    Catch some Pokemon and get a glimpse of the future

    News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 20/07/2016

    » One of the interesting debates over Pokemon Go, the addictive smartphone game that 9.5 million Americans play -- and probably a lot more than that now -- is whether it's truly augmented reality (AR), an up-and-coming companion technology to virtual reality (VR).

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    Who's afraid of automation and robots?

    News, Sutapa Amornvivat, Published on 20/07/2016

    » The recent Toyota Motor Thailand's layoff of 800 employees has caused quite a stir. Luckily, this incident turned out to be an isolated case, and not a prelude to mass unemployment. Yet, a real threat is imminent as the world's economies, advanced and emerging alike, are entering a brave new world of automation.

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