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    Ghost of the Marcos dictatorship hangs over Rodrigo Duterte

    News, Bloomberg News, Published on 16/06/2016

    » Rodrigo Duterte won the Philippine presidency in a blaze of hard-line rhetoric -- an outsider who will stamp out crime and corruption. But his power base is tied to the nation's oldest political camps, including that of ex-dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

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    Messengers are casualties of 'transparency'

    News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 16/06/2016

    » On Monday, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwon chaired a signing ceremony between the armed forces and agencies under the Ministry of Defence and the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) pledging to perform their duties with transparency and make the military free from corruption.

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    There is no simple solution to the looming downturn

    News, Satyajit Das, Published on 16/06/2016

    » A growing number of economists seem convinced that the US, EU and China are all headed for a prolonged period of sluggish growth -- secular stagnation, in the words of former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. A close parallel would seem to be 1990s Japan. There, too, the bursting of debt-funded asset price bubbles gave way to multiple rounds of fiscal stimulus, massive monetary easing and rock-bottom interest rates. Rescue efforts stabilised conditions but couldn't spark a sustainable recovery, leaving the economy mired in low growth, low inflation and high debt.

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    Social media awash in hate

    News, Editorial, Published on 16/06/2016

    » A look at what has been trending on social media in Thailand over the past few days would reveal the appalling truth about how hatred spawned by political schism and expressions of hate-filled prejudice have become a part of life for many people. This devastating trend must be stopped.

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    Secret city business

    News, Postbag, Published on 16/06/2016

    » The office of Bangkok governor MR Sukhumbhand Paribatra appears to have been renovated at huge cost long before the terms of reference were set. No surprise here as this is how the BMA operates.

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