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Fixing flaws in Thailand's booze law
Oped, Published on 03/07/2024
» Sixteen years after the Alcohol Control Act was enforced to curb youth drinking, consumption among youngsters remains as high as ever, highlighting the law's ineffectiveness.
Hidden realities of carbon credits
Editorial, Published on 31/03/2024
» Thai governments -- be they Prayut Chan-o-cha's or Srettha Thavisin's -- have hailed carbon credit programmes as vital to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, they can become wolves in sheep's clothing if they favour businesses, leaving local communities and nature vulnerable to exploitation. Despite promises to mitigate greenhouse gases, carbon credit programmes often sideline local communities and worsen social and environmental injustices.
Structural flaws impede our economy
Oped, Chartchai Parasuk, Published on 21/03/2024
» It took Japan 17 years to learn that a macroeconomic policy is for stabilising an economy, not stimulating growth. Due to low economic growth in the "lost decade" following the financial crisis in the autumn of 1997, the Bank of Japan adopted an unthinkable monetary policy of a negative interest rate in 2007 by pushing the short-term policy rate down to -0.1%.
Scrap booze sale curb
News, Editorial, Published on 05/02/2024
» Last week, Public Health Minister Cholnan Srikaew said the government is likely to decide on whether to keep an afternoon ban on alcohol beverage sales or revoke it.
Ditch Google to avoid fake news
News, Published on 15/01/2024
» Searching for information has become instant and effortless -- just go to your nearest device, ask Siri or click a few keys. But are we better informed than we were before Google became a verb?
Tackling our plastic waste woes
Oped, Published on 05/01/2023
» Today, most of the products and packaging in our local market are designed to be "disposable", with little or no concern for environmental impacts and any negative influences on human health.
Proceed with caution
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 11/07/2022
» The Royal College of Pediatricians of Thailand and the Pediatric Society of Thailand last week announced three cases of children suffering severe side effects of cannabis consumption.
Endemic status anxiety
News, Editorial, Published on 06/06/2022
» The government has plans to declare Covid-19 an endemic disease in July with the aim of returning social and business activities across various sectors to pre-Covid levels.
Call time on booze rules
News, Editorial, Published on 19/03/2022
» Reports that K-pop superstar Lisa Manoban has become a brand ambassador for a whisky-maker have caused something of a frenzy here in her home country.
The for-profit pandemic, and how to stop it
Oped, Published on 15/12/2021
» It has been less than two years since phrases like "flatten the curve", "contact tracing", "social distancing", and many others related to the Covid-19 pandemic entered the lexicon and became part of everyday communication. People everywhere have learned more about epidemiology, virology, and immunology than they ever expected they would.