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Ukraine was experimenting with local democracy
News, Published on 07/03/2022
» As I write this, Russian troops are moving north through the Odesa oblast, or region, toward the river Kodyma, along which sits a town called Balta.
Can we afford to lose effective drugs?
News, Published on 22/11/2021
» Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) might be known to consumers and patients simply as drug resistance. However, it is actually a looming threat to global health security which threatens to derail efforts to reach the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development goals.
Thailand's fight to eliminate malaria by 2024
News, Published on 24/04/2019
» This year's World Malaria Day theme, "Zero Malaria Starts With Me" re-energises the fight to eliminate malaria which, despite being a disease that is preventable and treatable, still kills over half a million people every year.
It's high time to bend the curve to eradicate TB
News, Published on 22/03/2019
» Thailand's noteworthy progress in combatting tuberculosis (TB), with a decline rate of around 10%, has given the world some hope.
A kingdom that coupmakers treasure
News, Soonruth Bunyamanee, Published on 27/06/2018
» Coups d'etat have become synonymous with Thai politics ever since the nation became a constitutional monarchy in 1932, and this trend is expected to continue since the country lacks a legal precedent to prevent them.
Charter tune plays like a broken record
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 11/06/2016
» One song is championed, the other outlawed. One song hides its prejudices in the subconscious, the other clear in its messages. Both songs are about the referendum. That is, in case we still have the referendum, because it's almost safer now to bet on Albania winning Euro 2016 than on our slippery Aug 7 poll taking place.
NCPO chips away at right to privacy
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 10/05/2016
» What is the use of a constitution, provisional or permanent, if it can't protect our mothers?Did we know that Section 4 of the provisional charter, enacted on July 22, 2014, extends its protection to human dignity, rights, freedom and equality, all of which Thais enjoyed under the tradition of the constitutional monarchy and existing international treaties?
Having it both ways
News, Postbag, Published on 18/02/2016
» The Bangkok Post reported on Tuesday that monks demonstrating at Phutthamonthon have made two demands: Firstly, that Buddhism be declared the official state religion in the new constitution, and, secondly, that the prime minister should stop government agencies from interfering in matters relating to the monastic community.
Welcoming more kids not enough
News, Curtis S Chin, Published on 29/12/2015
» As the year comes to a close, it's worth taking a look back at one of China's major policy decisions in its efforts to address a slowing economy and a growing demographic challenge.
The big issue: Frogs in a pot
Alan Dawson, Published on 16/08/2015
» The head of the Constitution Drafting Committee suddenly realised he had forgotten something. At a mere 130 pages, 61,000 words, 315 sections, the charter really needed some meat on its bones.