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Making Bimstec matter

Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 20/01/2020

» The Bay of Bengal is the focal point of a landscape of great diversity and vast potential yet to be tapped. The largest bay in the world is shared by some of the world's most dynamic economies, but integration remains limited despite their shared histories and cultures.

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Typhoon and cyclone risk on the rise

Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 21/08/2017

» Asia and the Pacific will face more intense typhoons and tropical cyclones, with rising global mean temperatures as climate change impacts become more pronounced, a recent report warns.

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Open economy evangelist

Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 14/08/2017

» New Zealand has long been known for kiwi fruit, lamb and the invincible All Blacks, the fearsome national rugby team. But in the global economic sphere, the country is also known as a champion of open economies and free trade. Last year, the country was rated the world's second-best place to do business by Forbes magazine. That helps confirm its reputation in the field of trade -- and explains why the British government chose a New Zealander to head its post-Brexit trade negotiating team.

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Asean must walk the climate talk

Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 24/07/2017

» Next month, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) is going to have the big party it deserves. The golden jubilee celebration will pay tribute to the remarkable journey of a small regional association founded by five foreign ministers from backward countries in a war-torn region.

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World on the move

Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 26/06/2017

» It is not an overstatement to say that the world is no longer a safe and peaceful place. News of terrorist attacks has become a sad fact of daily life, most recently in London and Paris again this month.

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Women on the rise ... slowly

Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 10/04/2017

» Society never seems to run out of words of praise for women. "God created women to tame men," declared the French philosopher Voltaire. "Women hold up half the sky," said Mao Zedong.

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Sweet success

Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 27/03/2017

» Does life really resemble a box of chocolates, as Forrest Gump observed, in which you never know what you're going to get? In terms of surprise and unpredictability, life could be more like the chocolate industry.

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Citizenship for sale

Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 13/03/2017

» Having multiple passports and citizenship that bears no relation to where you were born is something most people associates with James Bond or Jason Bourne. But these days it is no longer simply the stuff of spy stories.

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Beyond the numbers

Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 06/03/2017

» Anyone who meets Frank Lutz, the chief financial officer (CFO) of Covestro AG, the Germany-based polymer producer, will find it hard not to notice his wristwatch. Anyone expecting to see an extravagant chronometer or bespoke timepiece favoured by corporate executives and jet-setters will have a major letdown.

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Cleaner energy for all

Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 20/02/2017

» It sounds like a pipe dream when Liu Zhenya talks about China's aspiration to become the regional leader in renewable energy. Such talk appears at odds with the image many people have of smoke-belching fossil-fuel power plants and some of the world's most polluted cities.