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    Mobile jab units for senior citizens

    News, Apichai Sunchindah, Published on 09/06/2021

    » The Public Health Ministry launched a pilot project for mobile Covid-19 vaccinations on Tuesday, with an initial target of inoculating 1,200 seniors currently staying at elderly care facilities in the capital.

  • OPINION

    Lessons from past outbreaks amid the Covid-19 crisis

    News, Apichai Sunchindah, Published on 14/03/2020

    » As the world faces the Covid-19 pandemic which is increasingly spreading, irrational human behaviour often exacerbates the situation with hysteria and panic adding to widespread havoc. The knock-on effects have seriously affected millions of people and predictions have been made that the world will likely head towards a recession -- if not a depression -- should the disease spread as the pandemonium continues unabated.

  • OPINION

    Linking Covid-19 and 'Parasite'

    News, Apichai Sunchindah, Published on 21/02/2020

    » The ongoing outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 or Covid-19, which originated in China over two months ago and has been spreading around the world has claimed at least 2,100 human lives with another 70,000 laboratory-confirmed cases -- mostly in China.

  • OPINION

    Thailand must boost Asec presence

    News, Apichai Sunchindah, Published on 04/09/2019

    » During the commemoration of Asean Day earlier last month at the newly inaugurated Asean Secretariat (Asec) building in Jakarta, Indonesia, a poster displaying eye-popping statistics of the organisation's current staff composition shows that there are only four Thais working there. This figure is minuscule compared to those from the other four founding members states of Asean, and even latecomer Vietnam.

  • OPINION

    Mekong dilemmas need political will to resolve

    News, Apichai Sunchindah, Published on 26/07/2019

    » Last year, we were saddened by the hazards related to dam failures in the Mekong River basin after one of the saddle dams on the Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy hydro-electric project in Laos collapsed and the large amounts of impounded water then gushed downstream, causing massive inundation and damage to property, crops, livestock, lost livelihoods and some human casualties. The cause of the dam disaster has been attributed to sub-standard construction and unusually high rainfall.

  • OPINION

    Why the capital needs to get smarter

    News, Apichai Sunchindah, Published on 06/02/2019

    » Bangkokians have been suffering from serious smog episodes over the past month, with the wearing of face masks becoming the norm. While the root causes of this health-threatening and unpleasant phenomenon are many, one of the culprits is the high number of vehicles plying the city's thoroughfares, and chief among this is the use of private cars.

  • OPINION

    Dam calamity a wake-up call for Mekong hazards

    News, Apichai Sunchindah, Published on 31/07/2018

    » The recent case of the Xe Pian Xe Namnoy dam collapse in Laos is a timely reminder that there are potential hazardous factors associated with the failure of storage dams. These include large mass movements into a reservoir close to the dam such as a sudden influx of water and/or huge falling rocks, design errors, poor construction, faulty operation of reservoirs, sabotage, terrorism, acts of war and seismic risks.

  • OPINION

    Chula sizes up the future as it turns 100

    News, Apichai Sunchindah, Published on 23/03/2017

    » This past week, Chulalongkorn University (CU) has been abuzz with activities leading up to its centenary celebration this Sunday.

  • OPINION

    Learning from the European Union

    News, Apichai Sunchindah, Published on 22/07/2016

    » A little over a decade ago, I wrote a piece in the Jakarta Post on "Mid-life reflections on Asean and the EU". My basic contention was that the activities of both regional organisations, while created with noble aims and good intentions, were primarily driven by elites and bureaucrats and had received fairly little input from, and were thus quite dissociated from, the local communities.

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