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Thaksin's homecoming is a price too high to pay
Oped, Published on 15/10/2022
» The next general election is now firmly on the horizon, with the Election Commission (EC) having tentatively set the date last month as being May next year.
City commuters stuck in spider's web of delays
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 05/04/2019
» How many cards must a Bangkokian carry with them just so they can make their way through the ever-so busy and bustling capital? No, I'm not talking about credit, debit, or loyalty reward cards. I'm talking about the cards that a commuter must carry just so that can move from Point A to B.
A crack in the Great Firewall?
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 02/07/2018
» Whenever China announces policies to open up its economy or facilitate investment from abroad, the news is usually welcomed at home and abroad, but such policies or measures need to be fair. Not welcome are those that create discrimination or lead to greater disparity.
China isn't quite ready to take over the world just yet
News, Christopher Balding, Published on 05/12/2017
» Almost daily, newspapers in the US, Europe and China release eye-catching headlines about China's technological advances and economic prowess. The accomplishments are real. But they're not necessarily evidence of Western failure or Chinese invincibility.
The shocking truth
News, Postbag, Published on 17/05/2017
» Why don't Thai manufacturers take a little pride in their products?
BMA's Mahakan mess
News, Postbag, Published on 21/01/2017
» It is with deep disappointment that we have read Peerawat Jariyasombat's strangely ill-informed article, "A lesson in development" (BP, Jan 16, 2017). In a move that seems calculated to pander to the greed of developers rather than nurture the human resources represented by local populations, Khun Peerawat hails the efforts of Korean authorities to replace an existing population with an artist colony, but says nothing about the fate of the original residents.
Put meat on bike laws
News, Postbag, Published on 03/12/2016
» Re: "Children told not to drive motorbikes", (BP, Nov 30).
Breaking barriers to bank the poor
News, Arup Chatterjee, Published on 14/09/2016
» Giving the poor access to financial services is accepted wisdom. What isn't appreciated is how this is undermined by a lingering lack of trust in banks among the people most in need of their services.
New realities shape young minds
News, Joseph Stiglitz, Published on 28/03/2016
» Something interesting has emerged in voting patterns on both sides of the Atlantic: young people are voting in ways that are markedly different from their elders. A great divide appears to have opened up, based not so much on income, education or gender as on the voters' generation.
Learn from the Scots
News, Published on 21/02/2015
» Re: “Unlike Greece, our ‘corruption trap’ has no end in sight,” (BP, Feb 18).