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English plan at risk before it even begins
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 26/09/2016
» The Education Ministry's plan to initiate a new English language test to lift the quality of teaching and learning and weed out unqualified backpackers leaves many of our readers and myself yawning and wondering.
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Graft reform goes astray
News, Editorial, Published on 26/09/2016
» The government is on the cusp of reforming anti-corruption laws. This is a welcome step, and long overdue. For many years, battling corruption has been difficult at best, ineffective too often. A combination of unclear regulations, competing police and investigative agencies and a clear reluctance to act against those with rank or influence has stymied many cases.
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Beware the civil service's warrior queens
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 26/09/2016
» The women have guts -- and lots of it. I am referring to Commerce Minister Apiradi Tantraporn who last week signed an administrative order to pave the way for the Legal Execution Department to proceed with confiscating the assets of her predecessor, Boonsong Teriyapirom, and his five associates involved in the fake government-to-government rice deals with two fictitious Chinese firms, to recoup the loss from these deals estimated at about 20 billion baht.
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The struggle to make more babies
News, Lee Jong-wha, Published on 26/09/2016
» South Korea is facing major demographic challenges. The total fertility rate (the number of children per woman), at 1.24, is one of the lowest in the world, and well below the level -- 2.1 children per woman -- needed to sustain a population without immigration. As a result, the population is aging fast, and the government, despite its best efforts, seems to have no answer.
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A lack of green
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 26/09/2016
» The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) has announced an all-time-high revenue since the department was founded in 2002.
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