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Crisis in waste management
Oped, Editorial, Published on 09/04/2024
» The sight of our officials and ministers frantically searching for carcinogenic cadmium tailings is a reminder of how hopeless the state's toxic waste policy management has been. Without a major revamp, similar problems will only recur.
Govt must plug its leaks
Oped, Editorial, Published on 18/01/2024
» The ambition of the Srettha government is not limited to megaprojects such as the Land Bridge or promoting the value of so-called "soft power".
Mine faces big test
Oped, Editorial, Published on 23/03/2023
» The Akara gold mine reopened on Monday after a six-year hiatus. In 2017, the now-dissolved National Council for Peace and Order issued an executive decree suspending operations after government agencies accused the mine of causing negative environmental and health impacts on local communities.
Joke or corruption?
Oped, Editorial, Published on 20/04/2022
» The resignation of an aide to the Prime Minister on suspicion of having a vested interest in the government's lottery quota system should not be the end of what is now a very public -- yet still alleged -- scandal.
Questionable reform plan
News, Editorial, Published on 11/09/2017
» Last week's quiet revelation of a reorganisation of the army's most secretive unit raises startling and important issues. According to a source within the Internal Security Operations Command, there are plans already afoot to make Isoc, in effect, in charge of strategic security. That includes all intelligence gathering, immigration policy, the battles involving terrorism and transnational crime, and the war against illicit drugs. This deserves greater public airing.
Trump's IP actions unfair
News, Editorial, Published on 15/02/2017
» US President Donald Trump last week issued a new directive on transnational crime. Its preamble stated that cross-border crime, especially drug cartels, have spread, "threatening the safety of the United States and its citizens". But in the meaty part of the executive order he slipped in something else. In addition to a crackdown on human, drug and arms trafficking, Mr Trump ordered new and strong actions against corruption, cybercrime -- and theft of intellectual property (IP).
Answers needed on the latest oil spill
News, Editorial, Published on 01/11/2015
» The sight of an oil-drenched crab clawing its way across the beach of Hua Hin, dragging a trail of viscous black goo across the sand, is hardly the image authorities have in mind when promoting Thailand as an idyllic tourist destination. It is perhaps for this very reason men in clean navy blazers with government insignia brought out shiny shovels and posed for the cameras on Wednesday morning. The Hua Hin Tourist Police chose a particularly white and clean stretch of beach to show social media they were busy extracting black gold.
Government targets water waste
News, Editorial, Published on 30/07/2015
» The cabinet on Tuesday approved a set of short-term water conservation measures to be applicable at all governmental units and state enterprises effective from Oct 1 which marks the beginning of the 2016 fiscal year. These measures are long overdue.