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  • BUSINESS

    Dos and don'ts for a successful innovation project

    Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 21/01/2016

    » At the beginning of a new year, many businesses consider doing something innovative to refresh their products and services or the ways they promote and deliver them. Planning and successfully running an innovation project is both a science and an art. Today, I will share with you eight dos and don'ts. Beware of the don'ts to avoid project failure (mediocre, ordinary ideas and outputs) and heed as many of the dos as possible to enjoy project success (extraordinary ideas and innovative results).

  • OPINION

    Don't be a bystander to mass famine

    Oped, Peter Singer, Published on 16/08/2022

    » In March 1964, The New York Times reported that 38 witnesses saw or heard a brutal, drawn-out, and ultimately fatal attack on a woman called Kitty Genovese, but none did anything to help her or even summoned the police. The report was later shown to be erroneous, but the "bystander effect" is real. As many psychology experiments have shown, an individual is less likely to come to the aid of another if they can see that other people who could help are not doing so.

  • OPINION

    Paiboon's effort to clean up prisons deserves support

    Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 28/10/2014

    » Justice Minister Paiboon Koomchaya has every reason to feel frustrated with the Corrections Department for its failure to stop drug trafficking from prisons and the smuggling of cellphones for use by imprisoned drug kingpins.

  • OPINION

    Cleaning up the kitchen

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 21/10/2022

    » Thailand is not shy about promoting its farm products and national cuisine -- a perhaps over-sized sense of pride that has emboldened the government to position the kingdom as the "kitchen of the world" and enshrine our gastronomic heritage as "soft power".

  • OPINION

    The populist climate threat

    Oped, Published on 04/10/2022

    » Reactionary populism is now the biggest obstacle to tackling climate change. With outright climate denial no longer an option, populist politicians have increasingly positioned themselves as climate doubters and delayers, and this new approach is proving to be quite insidious. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that global greenhouse-gas emissions must peak within three years to keep the Paris agreement's 1.5° Celsius target in reach; by slowing effective action, the tactics of today's populists are becoming an existential threat.

  • OPINION

    Massacre questions

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 08/10/2022

    » Re: "Former cop kills 37 in massacre", (BP, Oct 7).

  • THAILAND

    Prayut slams journalists as 'unethical'

    News, Post Reporters, Published on 16/09/2015

    » Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has blamed journalists' professional associations for their failure to curb some media crews who allegedly lack "ethics" and never portray the government in a positive light.

  • THAILAND

    US report lauds efforts to combat child labour

    News, Post Reporters, Published on 02/10/2015

    » The US Department of Labour has upgraded Thailand to the "significant advancement" category for child labour after efforts in recent years have made progress in thwarting the harmful practice.

  • LIFE

    Strangers, neighbours, others

    Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 09/06/2022

    » For me, the word "ritual" evokes tradition and cycle. And there's plenty that is traditional and cyclical at this year's Singapore International Festival of Arts (Sifa). But with a new festival director, Natalie Hennedige, the programme under the theme "Anatomy Of Performance: Ritual" also embraces questions of the future and the digital space.

  • WORLD

    Philippines urges Asean to 'stand up' to China

    Published on 26/04/2015

    » KUALA LUMPUR — The Philippines is urging the 10-member Southeast Asian Nations to take immediate steps to halt land reclamation by China in the disputed waters of the South China Sea, warning that failure to do so will see Beijing take "de facto control'' of the area.

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