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Reform path is clear
News, Published on 11/09/2013
» Re: ''Korn predicts shift in power'' (BP, Sept 9).
Ending illiteracy demands innovative approaches
News, Published on 09/09/2013
» In today's world where children are surrounded by high-tech devices, one may think that they are smarter than ever. In the age of technology, information is literally at their fingertips. Yet in an upper middle-income country such as Thailand, functional literacy in children aged six to 11 is still a serious concern despite the one tablet per child policy.
Election in little Cambodia has bigger implications
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 02/08/2013
» The preliminary election results in Cambodia are tantamount to a political lightning strike on the incumbent regime of Prime Minister Hun Sen, the country's electoral strongman who has been at the helm for close to three decades.
Detroit's plight offers lesson to China
News, Published on 25/07/2013
» When the city of Detroit filed for bankruptcy last week, it became the largest such filing in United States history. Detroit's population has dropped from 1.8 million in 1950, when it was America's fifth-largest city, to less than 700,000 today. Its industrial base lies shattered.
Security Council must adapt to changing world order
News, Published on 25/07/2013
» The 1945 United Nations Charter represented a historic breakthrough in the pursuit of peace on a multilateral basis. At the end of a global war that claimed more than 50 million lives, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the world's two major powers. The UN Charter, initially negotiated by the US, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom during World War II, established a Security Council containing five permanent members, including France and the Republic of China.
Talentless show exposes our cultural sadism
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 08/06/2013
» We thought television couldn't sink any lower, but somehow it did.
Migration will matter more after 2015
News, Published on 29/05/2013
» In 2015, the Asean single economic space will exist, opening up free movement for certain classes of workers across 10 very different Asian nations. At the end of 2015, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the shared vision of the international community since 2000, will expire.
Big business is avoiding responsibility
News, Published on 24/05/2013
» In recent months, people and their politicians around the world have been astonished to learn that big companies and billionaires will go to extraordinary lengths to pay lower taxes.
Time to harness the remittance boom
News, Published on 23/05/2013
» For more than a decade, Asia's economies have been on the move _ and so have its people. The scale of migration from rural to urban areas and across international borders is historically unprecedented, and 21st century Asia is its focal point.
Quality must trump size in govt's school policy
News, Published on 22/05/2013
» School size matters, but it should not be the only thing that counts.