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The pursuit of knowledge
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 27/05/2015
» Lately I've been seriously thinking about pulling my son, now almost 11 years old, out of school.
A chance to take action
News, Published on 25/05/2015
» Thailand will host an international meeting on Friday that is notable for several factors. It is the first time since last year's coup that the government has won significant backing for such a conference. It centres on the region's biggest crisis, the flood of Rohingya boat people and their plight. And it has managed to draw in Myanmar, the source of the flood and, in the opinion of many, the cause of it.
Thailand firm in its stand on refugee crisis
News, Saritdet Marukatat, Published on 25/05/2015
» Thailand was deemed the bad guy in the eyes of the rest of the world and the Western media after the end of a three-nation meeting in Putrajaya last Wednesday. While host Malaysia and Indonesia agreed in the urgent talks to shelter 7,000 Rohingya and Bangladeshi boat people migrants for one year to give other countries time to work on repatriation and resettlement, Thailand did not join in on offers of temporary sanctuary.
Weak support for city cyclists so dispiriting
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 28/05/2015
» Should I feel thankful that businessman and property analyst Sophon Pornchokchai has expressed concerns over the safety of cyclists?
How to tackle infectious diseases
News, Published on 28/05/2015
» Ebola has received much of the attention in 2014, and has killed about 8,000 people. In the same period of time, about 4 million people died from Aids, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria.
See the world through migrants' eyes
News, Published on 28/05/2015
» For two weeks, four faces have been staring hard into our collective conscience. Christophe Archambault's disturbing picture of four migrants adrift on the Indian Ocean has been unavoidable, gracing the cover of newspapers, magazines, websites, and appearing on prime-time TV day after day.
Beware those naughty days of the week
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 31/05/2015
» There was an item in the Bangkok Post on Wednesday featuring a sign attached to a tent that read in Thai, “Rawang sao” (beware of the pole). Below it, someone had helpfully written an English translation, or rather mistranslation, which read “Beware Saturday”.
It's time to teach a class on education
News, Published on 31/05/2015
» The exposure of alleged corruption in a teacher’s welfare fund has revealed a deep-rooted lack of transparency at the Ministry of Education. It is a shame that money which was supposed to help build knowledge in our children was badly spent. A large amount of the education-related budget ended up in bad investments made by the top management at the ministry. In addition, there have been scandals involving the teachers' welfare fund and also revelations that many teachers are still struggling financially, in spite of government efforts to increase their salaries and welfare benefits over the past few years. These teachers may need lessons in financial matters too.
The big issue: Innocent until...
Bangkok Post, Published on 31/05/2015
» Today was to be a milestone, or more precisely another set of milestones, in the interesting life of the man with a million nicknames, Sepp Blatter. Forty years “working” for Fifa, 6,200 days as president, with yet another election and four-year term assured, taking him to his 83rd birthday in 2019.
Mitigating intractable 'boat people' crisis
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 29/05/2015
» Beyond a few obvious facts, working out what to do with the many thousands of "boat people" who have been stuck in the vast sea straddling South and Southeast Asia in pursuit of jobs and better livelihoods is difficult to come by.