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Village mourns its sons dead at sea
Published on 20/08/2023
» Under a cloudy sky in the coastal Senegalese village of Fass Boye, the local chief's voice resounds over a loudspeaker, calling villagers to pray for the souls of their lost loved ones.
Will the new industrial policy work?
News, Published on 27/02/2023
» Industrial policy has returned to government agendas across the developed and developing world. While the US Inflation Reduction Act has shocked America's Asian and European trading partners, the Biden administration's signature climate-change legislation is just the latest in a series of recent policies that seemingly fly in the face of World Trade Organization rules.
EV market faces bumps
News, Editorial, Published on 12/12/2022
» Tesla has become a powerful catalyst for Thai electric vehicle market after the company launched two EV models in the Thai market last week.
How new tech can help forge trust
News, Published on 04/04/2022
» Twitter recently added a feature that lets users identify themselves with an NFT picture, distinguished by a new hexagonal border, rather than just a regular profile photo. An NFT (short for non-fungible token) is a digital commodity, typically an image, whose ownership is recorded on a ledger stored on a blockchain.
Singapore is a laboratory for urban mobility
Oped, Published on 13/08/2021
» Tiziano Terzani was no fan of Singapore. The Florentine writer and journalist explored every corner of Asia. He had witnessed the fall of Saigon to the People's Army of Vietnam, and the fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge. When he visited Singapore, he concluded all it had to offer was its airport: "The concentration of everything Singapore has to show: its efficiency, its cleanliness, its order." Otherwise, the wealthy city-state was nothing more to him than "the largest supermarket of consumer goods, futility, and prissiness in Asia".
Bureaucracy still baffles
News, Published on 25/07/2021
» All the requirements of bureaucracy in this country have not changed in more than 100 years.
Wake Up And Smell the Durian
Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 21/05/2021
» You know it's summer when boob/moob sweat stains appear on your clothes when you go out for a quick lunch. You know it's summer when khao chae floods your newsfeed and 7-Eleven feels like a sanctuary from the sunlight. You also know the hottest time of the year has arrived when you smell the durian.
Who's more right, Greta Thunberg or Bill Gates?
Oped, Published on 06/05/2021
» Some people say that to avoid the threat of catastrophic harm to human welfare posed by global warming, we must radically change our behaviour -- cease flying, use bicycles, and give up red meat. Others believe that new technologies can deliver carbon-free growth. So, who is right: Greta Thunberg, who advocates the former course, or Bill Gates, who just wrote a book advocating the latter?
Green consumer taxes can work
Oped, Published on 30/04/2021
» Many governments, aiming to foster a green and inclusive post-pandemic recovery, have embraced the slogan "Build Back Better". So far, policymakers have focused on increasing public spending in ways that address climate and environmental challenges while also creating jobs. But fiscal conservatives worry that the rising tide of red ink will drown economies in debt and lead to a financial-market backlash.
Why sustainability revolution is the new digital
Oped, Published on 30/01/2021
» Even in a year dominated by a global pandemic, the sustainability revolution has accelerated faster than expected, while also expanding to include a wider range of environmental and social issues.