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Closing the barn door
News, Editorial, Published on 12/12/2017
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has innocently given away the never-stated reason why the government never has got on top of flood control and water management. He visited Trang late last week after the worst floods in the main town's recent history. In addition to the usual sympathy and government-sponsored aid to the hardest-hit victims, he surveyed some of the damage. That was when he remarked that he would order the dredging of the Trang River as an urgent project.
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Adieu to an army cabinet
Oped, Editorial, Published on 04/11/2017
» Exactly three years, five months and 11 days after the coup on May 22, 2014, the military government under Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha seems to be getting on the right track in looking at the possibility of lowering the number of ex-military personnel in the cabinet, made possible following the sudden resignation of the labour minister this week.
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How India can win from big cash bust
News, Mihir Sharma, Published on 09/11/2017
» Almost exactly one year ago, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi went on national television to announce that, in a few hours, existing 500- and 1,000-rupee notes (255 and 510 baht) would no longer be legal tender. This came as a complete shock to most; the weeks and months that followed featured long queues at bank tellers as hapless Indians tried to exchange old notes for new, and at ATMs where they tried to withdraw enough cash to keep going. The sudden drought of cash made it increasingly difficult for small- and -medium enterprises to operate, as they relied on piles of cash for working capital. Many estimated that economic growth would slow as a consequence and events seem to have borne out this point of view.
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Sudden-onset disasters worsen mass migration woes
News, Published on 10/11/2017
» Harvey, the most powerful hurricane to hit Texas in more than 50 years, displaced more than a million residents and damaged some 200,000 houses in August. The same month, extreme rainfall led to floods and landslides across Nepal, India and Bangladesh, killing nearly 1,200 and displacing millions. In 2017, only drought in the Greater Horn of Africa displaced more people -- forcing more than a million people in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya from their homes.
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Cities must step up to reach climate accord
News, Published on 24/11/2017
» One highlight from last week's United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, was an announcement from the Syrian delegate that Damascus will ratify the Paris Agreement.
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Ensure migration works to make rural areas richer
News, Published on 21/10/2017
» Throughout history, one of the most effective strategies for people to look for a better future has been to move. In most cases leaving impoverished rural areas in search of more productive opportunities elsewhere.
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Proud to help out
News, Postbag, Published on 28/10/2017
» I am proud to be called a "temple boy" by the monks at a local temple on Maha Chai Road. Over the past few weeks we have been busy preparing to feed the huge throngs of people who came to say their final farewells to our beloved father, King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
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Blessed in junta land
News, Postbag, Published on 20/10/2017
» I cringe every morning when I turn the pages of the <i>Bangkok Post</i> and run into the daily government bashing mostly by foreign readers in PostBag.
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Consumers still lack confidence
News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 03/09/2017
» For those readers who have not read the business stories over the past week, let me recap some of the interesting issues that were written about by our intrepid business writers. Stories such as the Revenue Department coming out to openly state that their tax collection for the first 10 months of the fiscal year (October 2016 to July 2017) was 4% below the target came as a shock to many. The reason given for the shortfall was the lower collection of value added tax (VAT) that you and I pay for consuming.
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Time to build climate-resilient health systems
News, Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Published on 07/09/2017
» Climate change is happening. In recent years average temperatures across the globe have increased, with significant impact on humanity's most precious resource, the environment. Water systems are being stressed. Food sources are being imperiled. And areas once safe for settlement are being threatened and erased.
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