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For women, driving a car brings fear, freedom and suspicion
News, Published on 10/11/2015
» Since Rokhsar Azamee began driving the streets of Kabul last year, she has endured condescension, ridicule, and even threats to her life with some men deliberately causing "accidents" to harass her. But she will not be deterred.
The social media police are onto you
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 04/11/2015
» Two weeks ago, a group of 20 social media bystanders gathered outside the headquarters of a local bank to protest against what they called "an assault on a pregnant woman".
Capitalism not a cause of poverty
News, Ricardo Hausmann, Published on 24/08/2015
» Capitalism gets blamed for many things nowadays: poverty, inequality, unemployment, even global warming. As Pope Francis said in a recent speech in Bolivia: "This system is by now intolerable: farm workers find it intolerable, labourers find it intolerable, communities find it intolerable, peoples find it intolerable. The earth itself -- our sister, Mother Earth, as Saint Francis would say -- also finds it intolerable."
Navy's B36bn sub purchase plan firms up
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 25/06/2015
» Within a matter of weeks, the navy will know if its dreams of having submarines of its own will become a reality.
An opening in Laos the US cannot miss
Published on 11/04/2015
» A remarkable yet little-noticed development in the US rebalance to the Asia Pacific has been Washington’s overtures to Laos, a country long isolated and often overlooked by US officials.
Postbag: No happiness here
News, Published on 11/11/2014
» “Return happiness to the people.” This English translation of the objective coined by the junta could hardly be more corny and stilted. Perhaps in Thai it is less so. With the raft of problems and issues that have plagued the country for so long and still continue today perhaps a more appropriate phrase in English would be: “Instil a sense of sanity in the country.” But this could never be said by any government, let alone the junta. How many would disagree that putting the adjective “insane” as a prefix to the following issues would better reflect the reality of what urgently needs fixing?
China races to close the quality gap
Asia focus, Published on 05/08/2014
» A decade ago, many of us were apprehensive about buying a product made in South Korea. Today many consumers wonder whether they should purchase a Chinese product or not. Let’s be frank: how many of us have had good experiences with every ‘Made in China’ product we’ve owned?
Postbag: US policy is a joke
News, Published on 27/06/2014
» Re: “US hints at war games review” (BP, June 26).
China thrives by learning from the best
Asia focus, Umesh Pandey, Published on 07/04/2014
» I just got back from China and there is so much to write about, but today I would like to focus on an aspect covered in the lead story of this edition, the country’s huge automotive sector.
Can Thailand bounce back again?
News, Published on 07/02/2014
» For business, any kind of instability that reduces predictability is not well tolerated. Thailand may have appeared like a case study of economic resilience, given what the country has gone through in the past decade of varying colour-coded protests and turmoil. In the current round of crisis and confrontation, however, doubts are surfacing as to how many more self-inflicted shocks this country can absorb.