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  • OPINION

    Deliver riders work rights

    News, Editorial, Published on 05/04/2024

    » The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) recently issued a praiseworthy landmark ruling regarding the status of hundreds of thousands of food delivery platform riders in Thailand, many of whom have been complaining of unfair treatment from the platform owners.

  • OPINION

    Economics, at its core, is irredeemably sexist

    Oped, Published on 05/04/2024

    » Economics has an intractable "women problem". High-school girls avoid it. Female undergraduates abandon it. And the problem runs deeper than the difficulty of attracting enough women to mathematics, science, and engineering. Even women who have reached the discipline's summit, like Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, consider economists "a tribal clique" and their models defective.

  • OPINION

    Russian moves block UN probe of North Korea

    Oped, Published on 05/04/2024

    » In a classic under-the-political radar ploy, Russia has vetoed a UN committee investigating North Korean nuclear missile and banking sanctions violations. The low-profile but highly significant sanctions committee regularly monitors illicit actions by Pyongyang to develop, improve and implement the regime's nuclear weapons and offensive missile programmes.

  • OPINION

    Democracies can win tech race

    Oped, Published on 04/04/2024

    » The world is on the precipice of a technological cold war. As authoritarian regimes develop new digital tools that endanger open societies and threaten democratic values, the West must decide whether to compete or concede. Today, the battle for freedom is being fought in Ukraine; but the frontline could one day be in Taiwan, a global technology hub, producing the world's most advanced microchips, and a flourishing democracy less than 160 kilometres off the coast of China, which seems bent on annexing the island.

  • OPINION

    Eye on police probes

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 04/04/2024

    » The Criminal Court's move to issue an arrest warrant for Pol Gen Surachate Hakparn, who is accused of laundering money from online gambling, was a much-needed decision amid an ugly row between two high-ranking policemen.

  • OPINION

    2024 financial crisis may be a silent one

    Oped, Chartchai Parasuk, Published on 04/04/2024

    » When an economy faces a financial crisis, it can create a big bang like the mass collapse of financial institutions such as during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Thai Tum Yum Kung crisis of 1997, the Japanese financial crisis in late 1997, and the US Hamburger crisis of 2008.

  • OPINION

    Democracy survives crucial test in Senegal

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/04/2024

    » The crisis in Senegal, the one country in West Africa that has never had a military coup, has passed. Few people outside Africa were paying close attention to it, but I'm sure you will be pleased to know that democracy has survived.

  • OPINION

    How to save the pandemic treaty

    Oped, Mariana Mazzucato, Published on 03/04/2024

    » Recent drafts of a global pandemic treaty have been widely criticised as "shameful and unjust". When the latest round of negotiations opened on March 18, it was clear that a key lesson of the Covid-19 pandemic was being ignored: public health and the health of the economy are interdependent.

  • OPINION

    People-to-people diplomacy a better fit

    Oped, Paskorn Jumlongrach, Published on 03/04/2024

    » A large crowd gathered near the 2nd Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge in Mae Sot district on the morning of March 25 as the Thai government, through the Thai Red Cross Society and its Myanmar counterpart, released the first batch of humanitarian aid to those affected by fighting between Myanmar army and ethnic resistance forces.

  • OPINION

    Energy shift calls for open markets, more renewables

    Oped, Published on 03/04/2024

    » The awaited new Power Development Plan (PDP) will be finalised by the second quarter of this year. The PDP -- which is scheduled to be implemented between 2024 and 2037, will focus more on renewable energy.

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