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  • OPINION

    Why so unpatriotic?

    News, Published on 12/01/2024

    » Re: "Please Come Back", (Editorial Cartoon, Jan 11).

  • OPINION

    An early look at the 2025 market

    News, Published on 12/01/2024

    » The 2024 oil market is still in its infancy, but attention is already shifting to 2025. If the global economy is starting to abandon its oil addiction, as optimists contend, the first signs of the energy transition should emerge by next year. Spoiler alert: early indications are that the beginning of the end of the fossil-fuel industry remains elusive.

  • OPINION

    3.2% GDP growth 'pie in the sky'

    News, Chartchai Parasuk, Published on 11/01/2024

    » This year must be my lucky year. One of the key points of this article is to underline the risk of financial crisis compared to 1997. But this time it would not come from bank failures, it would come from defaults on corporate bonds and commercial papers. The reasons are the low cash position of corporates from many years of weak economic performance and, most importantly, today's super-tight domestic liquidity to refinance matured bonds and papers. I am a little wary that readers may scorn such a bold opinion. However, out of the blue, my opinion was proven correct on Monday when Italian-Thai Development (ITD) announced the postponement of payments on its bonds due in 2024 to 2026 with a total value of 14.45 billion baht for two years.

  • OPINION

    The danger of talking down immigration in Oz

    News, Daniel Moss, Published on 11/01/2024

    » Pre-pandemic Australia looks like hallowed ground that the contemporary economy will struggle to surpass. For local officials who aspire to take a crack at emulating a celebrated decades-long expansion, it's important not to downgrade a vital component that's become radioactive: immigration. The country's politicians are showing a worrying lapse in memory.

  • OPINION

    Live and let live

    News, Editorial, Published on 11/01/2024

    » By throwing cold water on the Move Forward Party's (MFP) call for a live broadcast of the second reading of the 3.48-trillion-baht budget bill, the Srettha Thavisin government shows it has scant regard for transparency regarding such crucial matters.

  • OPINION

    Western chip subsidies help China

    News, Published on 11/01/2024

    » If there is one certainty about the coming year, it is that geopolitical rivalries will persist. For the European Union, this will translate largely into an effort to reduce dependence on foreign suppliers, especially of critical goods. For the United States, the focus will be on maintaining military supremacy by denying potential adversaries -- namely, China -- access to relevant technologies. Both approaches overlap in an important area: the chips industry.

  • OPINION

    Mining on the Moon a boon of prestige rivalry

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 10/01/2024

    » What could be so rare and valuable that it would be worth going all the way to the Moon to get some?

  • OPINION

    Braving hurdles for green transport

    News, Sumet Ongkittikul, Published on 10/01/2024

    » 'Match your words with your actions." That was the message from teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg when she sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 2019 instead of flying to attend the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York.

  • OPINION

    Tackling populism at its roots

    News, Published on 10/01/2024

    » As Western democracies become increasingly polarised, rural and small-town voters are regularly pitted against their counterparts in larger urban centres. While this is not a new phenomenon -- and certainly not the only factor affecting voting patterns -- the rural-urban divide is a significant driver of today's culture wars. This dynamic, which economist Andres Rodriguez-Pose evocatively described as the "revenge of the places that don't matter", suggests that the ongoing populist surge largely reflects geographic disparities.

  • OPINION

    Revamping child policy

    News, Editorial, Published on 10/01/2024

    » For National Children's Day on Saturday, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has promised no more dinosaur displays at the Government House like the ones the previous administration used to hold.

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