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Escape from poverty
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 11/09/2017
» It was a cold winter night when Ji Seong-ho lost both of his left limbs. He was trying to jump onto a moving freight train to steal coal being transported from North Korea to China. He slipped on the snow and tumbled under the wheels of the carriage.
Govt backs Seoul peace plan initiative
News, Erich Parpart, Published on 01/09/2017
» Busan, South Korea: Thailand is ready to support South Korea's Berlin Initiative to find a peaceful solution to the simmering tension on the Korean Peninsula amid Pyongyang's escalating missile and nuclear threat, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday.
Bug bonanza
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 28/08/2017
» The first time I ate an insect was when I was young and playing in Roi Et, the northeastern province where my mother grew up. It was a fried grasshopper. I recall the taste was not bad, but after many bug-free years in Bangkok, I wasn't sure I wanted to get back on the insect wagon.
Bright future seen for GMS organic food sector
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 28/08/2017
» The Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) has ample potential to become a leading supplier of organic food to the world as local processors add more value to products and ship them through regional economic corridors.
Medicine man
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 21/08/2017
» Many people living in Thailand know Betadine as ya daeng or "red medicine", but few know much about the company behind this popular medicine that millions of parents apply to their children's frequent cuts and scrapes.
Infrastructure ambitions require the financing to match
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 14/08/2017
» The 10 members of Asean should keep their promise to make infrastructure investments worth US$700 billion with the Asean-5 (Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia) at the forefront of the drive, say senior bankers at HSBC.
Wake-up call for Don Mueang
News, Erich Parpart, Published on 09/08/2017
» The numbers of international arrivals to Thailand speak for themselves. So why was the Immigration Bureau not to know that its counters at Don Mueang International Airport would be clogged by arriving passengers last Saturday, and why wasn't it prepared?
The new trade order
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 07/08/2017
» The rise of anti-globalisation sentiment and trade protectionism in the United States and Europe has thrust China into a new role as the world champion of free trade and multilateral agreements, a role that would have been unthinkable even two decades ago.
Learning to improve
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 07/08/2017
» What we teach our children will affect the way our economy develops and even what we trade in the future. Education is how South Korea managed to rise from the ashes of the Korean War to become Asia's fourth largest economy and a high-tech industrialised nation.
Asian flashpoints in a proxy war
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 31/07/2017
» Geopolitical conflict is intensifying in Asia. From the Korean peninsula and the South China Sea to the Doklam Plateau, territorial disputes have the potential to destabilise the region -- and all of them ultimately involve China and the United States.