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Putting the people first
News, Published on 03/06/2012
» Anyone keeping up with news and current events in Thailand in the past week could not help but be struck by the tremendous difference in the behaviour of national political leaders here and that of the visiting leader of Myanmar's opposition National League for Democracy Party. As Aung San Suu Kyi was taking her first steps outside the country since 1988, most of that time spent under house arrest, the Thai parliament descended into yet another display of extreme partisan and at times juvenile behaviour. In contrast Mrs Suu Kyi looks and acts the part of a consummate political leader, stemming from the impression that everything she does is with the best interests of the people of Myanmar at heart. There seems little doubt that the real reason Myanmar President Thein Sein cancelled his trip to Bangkok to attend the World Economic Forum on East Asia in Bangkok last week is that he feared being upstaged by Mrs Suu Kyi, who gave a keynote address at the conference on Friday. She has certainly upstaged local political leaders.
WTO warns on trade frictions
Business, Parista Yuthamanop, Published on 01/06/2012
» Continued efforts to strengthen economic fundamentals and integrate economies are critical to help Asian countries sustain growth against the sluggishness in advanced economies, say academics, politicians and business executives.
Asia is crucial to ending poverty
News, Published on 28/05/2012
» Amid the economic distress emanating from the United States and Europe, no statistic better captures the broader dynamics of the world economy than the recent World Bank announcement that the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to cut extreme poverty by half was met globally in 2010. This was fully five years before the 2015 deadline.
China's 'Expanding Core' squeezes
News, Published on 27/05/2012
» China is now engaged in bitter disputes with the Philippines over Scarborough Shoal and Japan over the Senkaku Islands, both located far beyond China's 320km-wide territorial waters in the South China Sea. Indeed, so expansive are China's claims nowadays that many Asians are wondering what will satisfy China's desire to secure its ''core interests''. Are there no limits, or does today's China conceive of itself as a restored Middle Kingdom, to whom the entire world must kowtow?
Honour thy parents, a lesson learned too late in Klong Toey
Spectrum, Published on 27/05/2012
» He doesn't wear amulets, but says his tattoos are the best on the planet. Amulets, nowadays, can be fake, or even worse _ not even blessed, no power. You can't be too careful. So tattoos are safer. His Chinese dad told him that long ago.
S.Korean Cannes contender blasts homegrown corruption
AFP, Published on 26/05/2012
» A sex-infused expose of rampant corruption among the super-rich in today's South Korea premiered at Cannes Film Festival, but the director slammed the Western view of Asian cinema.
Japan pledges $500m for Pacific islands
AFP, Published on 26/05/2012
» Japan pledged aid worth up to half a billion dollars to Pacific island nations Saturday at a summit stressing the importance of maritime law in a region warily eyeing China's growing might at sea.
China firm buys AMC to create cinema giant
AFP, Published on 21/05/2012
» Wanda, a property firm owned by one of China's richest men, said Monday it would buy US cinema chain AMC Entertainment for $2.6 billion, in a sign of China's growing clout in the entertainment business.
Safe Evolution
Life, Richard Leu, Published on 21/05/2012
» There was a time when Honda's model range in Thailand stood out clearly against its rivals with outstanding attributes. To put in another way, development by engineers was quite aggressive at one time.
A public display of 'Affection'
B Magazine, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 20/05/2012
» 'Affection", a new art exhibition at Bangkok's Centara Grande, combines the talents of three Thai painters who make use of contrasting media and methods to describe elements of nature, animals or the human condition.