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Prayut plays with fire over appointments
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 30/04/2018
» After nearly four years in executive power, what Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha sees as "usual" appears to be not so usual, at least for those who want to see new things in politics.
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Muslims do fit in, though more slowly
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/04/2018
» 'Every Continental [European] under the age of 40 -- make that 60, if not 75 -- is all but guaranteed to end his days living in an Islamified Europe," wrote polemicist Mark Steyn in 2006. "Native populations on the continent are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic."
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Beware of the Korean peace trap
News, Eli Lake, Published on 30/04/2018
» On the surface it looks like the doubters were wrong. North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, travelled into South Korea on Friday to meet his counterpart. They agreed in principle at least to formally end the war that has divided the peninsula they share.
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Poor free press score
News, Editorial, Published on 30/04/2018
» A new and credible survey of world press freedom places Thailand at No.140. Out of 180 countries, that is a scandalous place to be for a nation whose prime minister is promising a return to a system of developing democracy. On its face, such a terrible placing is a slap at the regime. For there is no denying that the fresh, global survey got Thailand's current position about right.
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Trade boost with China set to shake up Vietnam
News, Le Hong Hiep, Published on 30/04/2018
» On April 17, Bloomberg reported that China had overtaken the United States as Vietnam's largest export market. According to figures cited by the news organisation and tallied by the International Monetary Fund, Vietnam's exports to China totaled $50.6 billion in 2017, compared to $46.5 billion in exports to the US.
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Reining in rampant testing for the sake of equity
News, Moritz Bilagher, Published on 30/04/2018
» As an avid reader, one of the first things I do upon arriving in any new city is survey the local bookshops. Arriving in Bangkok recently, I was pleased to find that the city had a wide variety of well-stocked bookshops. At one of these, I was taken by the amount of space -- seven full rows -- devoted to one particular subject: test preparation.
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China's sexist tech titans
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 30/04/2018
» The news that Alibaba is pouring US$320 billion into developing a "digital hub" in the much-touted Eastern Economic Corridor has not been greeted with universal applause in Thailand. Concerns are rising about the potential negative impacts on small local operators once the Chinese e-commerce giant cements its foothold.
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Planning ahead
Life, Peerawat Jariyasombat, Published on 30/04/2018
» After 25 years as a reporter, I am going to retire tomorrow.
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