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Making Bimstec matter
Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 20/01/2020
» The Bay of Bengal is the focal point of a landscape of great diversity and vast potential yet to be tapped. The largest bay in the world is shared by some of the world's most dynamic economies, but integration remains limited despite their shared histories and cultures.
He who dares wins as Grisada leaves his mark
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 11/07/2019
» Prior to his appointment as Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister over a year ago, Grisada Boonrach, a former interior permanent secretary, had already been known as a man who always left his mark on offices of state that he served.
Seoul to let illegal Thai workers leave
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 03/10/2018
» South Korea has given permission to 300,000 illegal migrant workers including 120,000 Thais to leave the country without being blacklisted.
Greening the palm oil supply chain
Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 08/05/2017
» 2016 will be remembered as the year of clear blue skies and clean air in the southern peninsula of Southeast Asia. For the first time in nearly two decades, choking haze from fires set to clear land for oil palm plantations was reduced significantly, in keeping with a promise made by Indonesian President Joko Widodo.
Predicting the unpredictable
Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 13/02/2017
» With no political track record to speak of, Donald Trump is confounding the analysts attempting to forecast what the US president will do next. Everyone is on a steep learning curve, but the early lessons are that the billionaire reality TV star has a penchant for throwing away the playbook, disdains multilateralism, and is absolutely determined to deliver on campaign promises that many observers thought were just slogans.
The reading feast
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 13/07/2015
» Bangkok never gets enough of book-related happenings. Set aside the National Book Fair and Bangkok International Book Fair in April and Bangkok Book Expo in October, the capital is about to have another book event, the Bangkok Book Festival 2015, which claims to be not just another commercial affair.
Watching history unfold
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 06/04/2015
» When Vitthya Vejjajiva said he was going to write a biography of Phan Wannamethee — diplomat, Red Cross chief, former Free Thai Movement member and ex-permanent secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) — he received encouragement from everyone except his subject.
Asean ministers have to heed the Mekong's plight
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 11/03/2014
» When looking at its small size, Don Sahong hydropower dam in Laos’ Champasak district, which will generate 256 megawatts of electricity, may not seems to pose a threat to the ecology of the Mekong River. But it does.
Thai publishers set their sights on Asia
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 08/04/2013
» Contrary to what many believe, Thai publishers who produce mainly content of local interest are finding it easier to expand their reach to nearby countries, especially to large emerging markets in East Asia such as mainland China, Taiwan and Asean member states like Malaysia and Indonesia. This point was made recently by Chonrungsee Chalermchaikit, vice-president of the Publishers and Booksellers Association of Thailand (Pubat).
Good fences make good neighbours
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 11/05/2012
» The recent explosion at Map Ta Phut that claimed 12 lives and caused more than 100 injuries is not the first accident there _ and certainly won't be the last. Several other mishaps have occurred in this industrial estate in Rayong over the years, but most of them passed under the media radar because nobody got killed. Many may be surprised to learn that, back in 2010, there were reports of chemical leaks at the same company involved in the disaster on May 5.