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Trump expected to tie autism risk to Tylenol as scientists urge caution
AFP, Published on 23/09/2025
» WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump on Monday was expected to tout a tenuous relationship between autism risk and Tylenol use during pregnancy, as scientists urged research on the topic was not conclusive.
What's to blame for inequality?
Oped, Published on 01/09/2025
» Over a decade ago, Nobel laureates Daron Acemoglu and James A Robinson, together with their co-author Thierry Verdier, contrasted America's "cutthroat" brand of capitalism with Western Europe's "cuddly" version. The qualities that make cutthroat capitalism more conducive to innovation, they argued, also lead to higher levels of inequality, while cuddly reward structures tend to lead to lower growth and higher welfare. Today, inequality is soaring, notably in the United States. Do policies aimed at boosting innovation risk making a bad situation worse?
Stressed UK teens seek influencers' help for exams success
AFP, Published on 15/08/2025
» LONDON - Posing as a fortune teller on his YouTube channel, former teacher Waqar Malik tells thousands of followers that he can predict this year's exam questions.
Rare 'Hobbit' first edition auctioned for B1.85m
AFP, Published on 07/08/2025
» LONDON - A rare first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit sold for £43,000 (1.85 million baht at auction on Wednesday, after it was found during a house clearance in southwest England.
Studio Ghibli marks 40 years, but future looks uncertain
AFP, Published on 06/06/2025
» TOKYO - Japan's Studio Ghibli turns 40 this month with two Oscars and legions of fans young and old won over by its complex plots and fantastical hand-drawn animation.
Dire sea level rise foreseen even if climate targets met
AFP, Published on 20/05/2025
» PARIS - Rising seas will severely test humanity’s resilience in the second half of the 21st century and beyond, even if nations defy the odds and cap global warming at the ambitious 1.5 degrees Celsius target, researchers said on Tuesday.
RCB Experimental Art Lab stages The Blue Hole
Life, Published on 05/03/2025
» RCB Experimental Art Lab presents The Blue Hole, a psychological thriller that will grip, shake and shatter the truth of humanity. Four performances will be staged at RCB Forum, 2nd floor of River City Bangkok, Charoen Krung 24, on March 15, 16, 22 and 23 from 5pm to 8pm.
Are high-skill immigrants a problem?
News, Published on 13/01/2025
» Fissures within US president-elect Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" (Maga) coalition have appeared sooner than expected. By the end of December, the tech-billionaire wing was in open warfare with Maga's nativist wing over America's H-1B visa programme, which enables US businesses to employ some 600,000 skilled foreigners per year on a temporary basis.
Don't write the obituary of the lunch hour just yet
Oped, Published on 26/11/2024
» Rewatching Modern Times the other day, I realised it's only a matter of time before something like the Billows Feeding Machine gets shilled on TikTok Shop.
Rethinking national prosperity through institutions
News, Published on 13/11/2024
» Each autumn, a telephone call from Stockholm launches one or a few scholars to international fame with the bestowal of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences -- a process that Irving Wallace dramatised in his 1962 potboiler The Prize.