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    Business lessons to be had from the fall of Icarus

    Oped, Published on 02/04/2024

    » Balancing corporate social responsibility (CSR), which implies a long-term vision of how businesses can contribute to the broader social good, with a company's daily operations is a formidable task.

  • OPINION

    Legal casinos no easy feat

    News, Editorial, Published on 01/04/2024

    » The House's acknowledgement last week of a study creating legal gambling zones in the country sparked widespread debate about their finances and social impacts.

  • OPINION

    Thaksin's influence no longer potent

    News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 01/04/2024

    » The return of Thaksin Shinawatra to Thailand continues to raise questions about the fairness of our justice system.

  • OPINION

    Western armed forces facing a recruitment crisis

    News, Peter Apps, Published on 01/04/2024

    » Every morning on the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D Eisenhower, an unsuspecting crew member is called to the bridge, presented with a cookie and asked to sit in the captain's chair.

  • OPINION

    Delicate art of being nasty and nice

    Roger Crutchley, Published on 31/03/2024

    » One word we have been subjected to almost on a daily basis recently is "diplomacy" as politicians grapple with the world's woes without much success. A dictionary definition of diplomacy is "tact or skill in dealing with people". Unfortunately it is more complex than that as the world is in such a mess. Perhaps Ambrose Bierce was nearer the mark in his Devil's Dictionary when he described diplomacy as "the patriotic art of lying for one's country".

  • OPINION

    Hidden realities of carbon credits

    Editorial, Published on 31/03/2024

    » Thai governments -- be they Prayut Chan-o-cha's or Srettha Thavisin's -- have hailed carbon credit programmes as vital to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, they can become wolves in sheep's clothing if they favour businesses, leaving local communities and nature vulnerable to exploitation. Despite promises to mitigate greenhouse gases, carbon credit programmes often sideline local communities and worsen social and environmental injustices.

  • OPINION

    Protect migrant kids

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 30/03/2024

    » A temple raid in Lop Buri has sparked concern over forced deportations after a group of 19 stateless children enrolled in a monkhood ordination programme were ejected from their class and transferred to the border province of Chiang Rai.

  • OPINION

    The gigantic 'anomaly' in climate change

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/03/2024

    » It was bound to happen some time, and the time could well be now. We know that when there was strong warming on our planet (like at the end of the last Ice Age about 11,000 years ago), there were sudden big leaps in the global temperature. It wasn't a smooth process at all.

  • OPINION

    Gender gaps in politics and business

    Oped, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 30/03/2024

    » Thailand's most recent report on women's rights -- available on the United Nations' website -- is part of the eighth cycle of reporting under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), to which the country became a party in 1985.

  • OPINION

    Big Tobacco is now falling under the 'Zynfluence'

    News, Published on 30/03/2024

    » For Big Tobacco, the ideal user of one of its nicotine pouches is an older ex-smoker who indulges in the tiny packets to get their daily dose of the stimulant.

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