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Casinos to entertainment capital
Oped, Published on 09/07/2025
» Casino "integrated resorts (IRs)" -- framed as "entertainment complexes (ECs)" in Thailand -- have proved to be hugely transformative for tourism, destination image, the economy, policy creation, and society.
Siriraj touts benefits of radiology resources
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 24/04/2025
» Siriraj Hospital has been promoting advanced technology for interventional radiology, a minimally invasive procedure for specifically targeted medical treatment.
Are electric cars driving into a dead end?
Oped, Published on 02/02/2024
» In the early 1990s, every self-respecting American yuppie and retired suburban couple bought an electric bread maker, with sales hitting four million units. But the fad soon faded as these amateur bakers discovered that stuffing a precise quantity and ratio of flour, eggs, butter, yeast, and salt into a metal box takes time and costs much more than strolling to the corner bakery. Are plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) the breadmakers of our day?
Microsoft fights $29 bn US back tax claim
AFP, Published on 12/10/2023
» WASHINGTON - The US Internal Revenue Service is asking that Microsoft pay a whopping $29 billion in unpaid taxes from 2004 to 2013, the company said in an official filing on Wednesday.
Industry rules are broken, not cryptocurrencies
News, Published on 31/08/2023
» When the Venetian merchant Marco Polo travelled the Silk Road in the thirteenth century, he encountered not only unfamiliar peoples, but also new (to him) forms of finance. In China, he was shocked to learn that Kublai Khan had introduced paper money. It was lighter, easier to transfer and store, and more valuable than the metal coins packed in his purse. After returning to Venice, Marco Polo taught his fellow merchants how to use the Khan's innovation. Even though some rejected the flat, foldable currency, arguing that it was no gold and never would be, paper money would change the world.
US debt ceiling deal: the key takeaways
AFP, Published on 28/05/2023
» NEW YORK - President Joe Biden and House Republicans have reached a deal in principle to raise the government's debt ceiling and avert a devastating default.
Let's go gambling
News, Published on 14/12/2021
» Re: "Divisive casino scheme put up for reconsideration", (BP, Dec 4).
US House advances Biden's historic social welfare expansion
AFP, Published on 19/11/2021
» WASHINGTON - US lawmakers voted Friday to elevate President Joe Biden's giant social welfare bill to the Senate, in a major step forward for his vision for a more equitable society that is the centerpiece of his domestic agenda.
How an indebted US physician sells Covid falsehoods
AFP, Published on 31/08/2021
» WASHINGTON: For Sherri Tenpenny, God is on the side of those who spurn Covid-19 vaccines. Making money, critics say, is the Ohio osteopath's higher calling.
RDF a fossil fuel
News, Postbag, Published on 22/06/2021
» Re: "SKE readies shift to cleaner fuel", (Business, June 19).