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Sustainable development gets research centre boost
News, Published on 25/01/2017
» Sixteen years ago, the world adopted the Millennium Development Goals or MDGs to deliver by 2015 a more inclusive and accessible world. The MDGs were further distilled into the 17 Sustainable Development Goals to be achieved by 2030. The 17 goals range from addressing climate change to making education accessible, from ending poverty to enhancing gender equality -- just to highlight a few.
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Anti-trade policies would make the poor poorer
News, Michael Schuman, Published on 25/01/2017
» Without question, the most exciting economic story of the past half century has been the dramatic, and probably unprecedented, decline in global poverty. In a recent study, the World Bank estimated that in 2015, just over 700 million people remained trapped in desperate poverty, or 9.6% of the world's population. Those sound like big numbers until you compare them to 1990, when nearly two billion people languished in poverty -- a staggering 37% of the global populace. Such progress has raised the real possibility that extreme poverty can be eradicated in the not-too-distant future.
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Beer biz will lose fizz unless we hone craft
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 25/01/2017
» When I read the news about a law graduate being arrested on Saturday for "illegally" brewing and selling his beer at his home in Nonthaburi, my tastebuds tingled at the prospect of sampling his beer.
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Reform yes, control no
News, Editorial, Published on 25/01/2017
» The Thai Journalists Association late last month issued a year-end summary of its work, in which it called 2016 "the year of government interference". That sad title was certainly earned. The TJA, however, may have spoken just a little early. The junta-appointed National Reform Steering Assembly (NRSA) is considering a measure to strip independence from the media and hand intimidation and a strong dose of press control to the government. It would make a mockery of the constitution's guarantee of freedom of the press.
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Making big data corruption's worst enemy
News, Published on 25/01/2017
» In the last decade or so, the world has witnessed an unprecedented explosion in the quantity of information available as our ability to generate and store data rocketed through the stratosphere. This availability of a seemingly infinite amount of information, known as "big data", has fundamentally altered the traditional way of doing business in many industries.
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Mind your passwords
Life, James Hein, Published on 25/01/2017
» Google, Facebook and Apple are the names of a few companies working on artificial intelligence (AI). I don't mean the kind of AI that simply teaches machines to be useful to humans, though that is also being done everywhere. I mean the self-aware kind. After so long at it I think the bigger organisations are locked in a series of dead end paths. Instead, I predict the first breakthroughs will come from small, even one-man operations thinking outside the cube. As an aside, when it comes to the search giants like Google or Yahoo and social media sites like Facebook, they all have their biases so the results you see may not be all that comprehensive, balanced or accurate.
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