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Political shenanigans
Oped, Postbag, Published on 05/08/2023
» Re: "Policy issues behind Move Forward's failure to form govt: poll", (BP, July 30).
Together we can end child labour
Oped, Published on 20/01/2023
» Some 62 million children in the Asia-Pacific region are in child labour. It is a simple sentence to write but far harder to comprehend. Spend a moment to think just how big that number is -- roughly similar to every child aged under 14 in the Philippines, Vietnam and Japan combined. Meanwhile, 28 million of them undertake hazardous work, risking their lives and health daily in sectors such as mining, agriculture and construction.
Control-deny-delete
News, Postbag, Published on 07/08/2022
» Re: "US shoots itself in the foot over Taiwan", (Opinion, Aug 5).
Act now to end online sex abuse
Oped, Published on 22/02/2022
» More children and young people are online than ever in the third year of Covid-19 and distance learning. Many are left without online supervision by parents and caregivers working away from home and lacking awareness of parental control tools.
Covid is everywhere
Oped, Postbag, Published on 12/02/2022
» Re: "Tracing error," (PostBag, Feb 11).
Classrooms enhance value of learning
Oped, Published on 18/09/2021
» Thank goodness for Zoom and platforms like it. They have salvaged more than an entire academic year of study for our Thai university students.
Migrant workers and Covid limbo
Oped, Published on 17/09/2021
» Among the most vulnerable groups affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, Asean's migrant workers find themselves living in limbo.
Long way to go to end of Covid deaths, freedom
Oped, Published on 09/09/2021
» The upsurge of Covid-19 cases, hospitalisations, and deaths in the United States serves as a bitter reminder that the pandemic is not over. The global economy will not return to normal until the disease is under control everywhere.
Keep schools clean
Oped, Postbag, Published on 14/08/2021
» The deprivation of basic sanitation and hygiene needs at school cries out for attention as pandemic demands focus on online education, but now is a chance to fix the system to equalise access to and the maintenance of sanitation standards and hygiene practices at schools.
Protecting the pachyderm
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 09/08/2021
» One of last week's non-Covid 19 news was about a DLTV (Distance Learning Television) class for kindergarten students, whose teacher taught them the names of native animals.