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  • THAILAND

    Consumer watchdog to topple Ponzis

    News, Post Reporters, Published on 05/12/2018

    » The Office of the Consumer Protection Board (OCPB) has been assigned to spearhead efforts to tackle Ponzi schemes, according to a senior officer at the agency.

  • OPINION

    Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 05/12/2018

    » 'Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made," wrote Immanuel Kant in 1784. It is still true.

  • BUSINESS

    Deloitte profiles cognitive technology

    Business, Published on 05/12/2018

    » Despite challenges, many organisations across industries are using cognitive technologies, realising the benefits they bring go beyond cost savings, according to a report by the global consultancy Deloitte.

  • BUSINESS

    Chinese lose appetite for luxury goods

    Business, Published on 05/12/2018

    » BEIJING: The designer boutiques of Manhattan and Paris are feeling the chill of a Chinese economic slowdown that has hammered automakers and other industries.

  • THAILAND

    Cops plot '191' number for all emergencies

    Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 05/12/2018

    » Royal Thai Police and the telecom regulator plan to launch 191 as a single national emergency smart telephone number in early 2020 to consolidate all critical emergency calls into a single platform, embedded with location-based applications and connected to nationwide CCTV.

  • OPINION

    Qatar's exit an ominous sign for Opec

    News, Published on 05/12/2018

    » The immediate question raised by Qatar leaving the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) is, of course, what to call this? Qatarexit, or even Qatexit, sound wrong. Qatar-ta-for-now has a nice ring to it, even if it's a tad unwieldy. Maybe just go with Qatout.

  • OPINION

    Xi's not for turning? Don't be so sure

    News, Published on 05/12/2018

    » As president-for-life, China's Xi Jinping is neither bound by rules nor limited by rivals. He has upended a careful political balance by concentrating power in his own hands, and overturned a cautious approach to foreign policy, while throwing in jail anyone he views as a threat. China's most dominant leader since Mao Zedong now has 90 days to head off an all-out trade war with the US provoked, in part, by his own mercantilist policies. Can anybody convince him to make a U-turn?

  • OPINION

    A taxing issue

    News, Postbag, Published on 05/12/2018

    » Re: "Finance minister doubts sodium tax", (Business, Dec.4)

  • LIFE

    The White Wall

    Life, Published on 05/12/2018

    » Chakrit Leelachupong's black and white photographs record ordinary people's rituals of grief for King Rama IX after he died on Oct 13, 2016, when the white wall that surrounds the Grand Palace, where King Bhumibol Adulyadej's body lay in state, became the place for simple displays of mourning by the public.

  • OPINION

    A dubious detention

    News, Editorial, Published on 05/12/2018

    » The Police Immigration Bureau has placed Thailand in a dicey situation. On Nov 27, officers at Suvarnabhumi airport detained Hakeem Ali Mohamed Ali al-Araibi. He is the subject of an Interpol Red Notice -- hold for possible deportation.

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