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Foreign aid, the powerful US soft power, is gone
Oped, Jeffrey Frankel, Published on 23/05/2025
» 'Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone." When Joni Mitchell sang that line in 1970, she was lamenting the destruction of the environment, but the sentiment applies to many issues. Today, we can add official development assistance (ODA) to the list.
The middle path for US foreign policy
Oped, Kasit Piromya, Published on 22/03/2024
» For decades, the United States' positioning in the international arena has been a battle between the desire to remain isolated within the confines of its own territory and the urge to extend beyond its boundaries to induce and cajole others on the values and benefits of democracy, freedom and a free market.
When a deal dive, dive, dives
News, Published on 11/11/2023
» It's finally over. Defence Minister Sutin Klungsang has decided to torpedo the acquisition of the submarine, the fate of which has hung by a thread for years.
Finding heritage-based fixes for floods
Oped, Published on 27/10/2022
» Whenever floods ravage Thailand, we hear many calls to enlarge drainage channels, construct new riverside barriers and build more pumping stations. But despite years of heroic engineering work, floods keep wreaking havoc.
BMA finds environmental utility in uprooted poles
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 16/12/2017
» Having removed 800 electricity poles from Bangkok's roads, City Hall has hit on the idea of turning these no longer needed concrete columns into an ideal solution to one of its major problems -- coastal erosion.
In China's shadow
Asia focus, Pathom Sangwongwanich, Published on 10/10/2016
» Home to 1.3 billion people spread across a land area of 9.6 million square kilometres, China is a force to be reckoned with. "When China sneezes, the world catches a cold" sums up the profound impact the world's second largest economy now has on global affairs.
Web of possibility
Life, James Hein, Published on 19/11/2014
» A decade ago the PC was the primary way that millions of people, mostly running a Windows operating system, interacted with companies and applications. At that same time many used Microsoft Office for building documents and Internet Explorer was the browser king of the era after deposing Netscape.
Generals risk hard landing without policy experts
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 19/09/2014
» Thailand's new military regime has ushered in several major breaks from past traditions since it seized power on May 22. Among them, the role of technocrats is most conspicuous. In the past, when the Thai military was ascendant and resurgent, the role and contribution of technocrats became more wide-ranging and pronounced. The proven relationship between the military and technocracy is crucial to the legitimacy and credibility of ruling generals during military-authoritarian periods.
Serene Sivas
Life, Onsiri Pravattiyagul, Published on 19/07/2012
» For travellers Turkey is an endless wonder. The Eurasian country is blessed with a natural, historical and cultural heritage that would take more than one visit to even attempt a crack at its time honoured civilisation _ from the Romans to the Ottomans.