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Revive cultural traditions to help protect climate
Oped, Published on 26/01/2023
» Is there a role for cultural heritage in our struggle to avert global warming? Can we trust technology to ease the stressed-out state of the planet? Or should we look back over our shoulders at ancestral wisdom for some answers?
Navigating a Thai path through a new cold war
News, Published on 20/06/2020
» The US and China have grown increasingly hostile to each other in rhetoric and in policy. Their competitive rivalry may degenerate into a new cold war, to the benefit of no one. The antagonistic relationship between the world's two most powerful nations presents both a new challenge and a new opportunity for Thailand.
Rapist Weinstein jailed for 23 years
AFP, Published on 11/03/2020
» NEW YORK: Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison by a New York judge Wednesday for rape and sexual assault in a landmark case for the #MeToo movement.
Convicted rapist Weinstein to learn prison term
AFP, Published on 11/03/2020
» NEW YORK: Harvey Weinstein faces up to 29 years in prison when he is sentenced by a New York judge Wednesday, two weeks after he was convicted of rape and sexual assault.
Can China bring financial risk to heel?
Asia focus, Published on 02/04/2018
» Over the past decade, Western media have reported continuously on growing financial risk in China, with dire warnings of impending crisis. In recent months, Chinese financial authorities have joined in the chorus.
A geopolitical pivot
Life, Published on 01/12/2017
» During the Indochina War years from the 1950s through to the 1970s, America's seven military bases in Thailand symbolised the extraordinary extent of US influence over the politics and development of the Kingdom. In the subsequent 30 years, American influence in Thailand has slowly but steadily waned, largely supplanted by a rising China. Thailand, which had been a linchpin of America's Asian strategy, is now instead a linchpin of China's Asian strategy. American soldiers on R&R have been replaced by Chinese tourists, American airbases by plans for Chinese high-speed rail links. China, not the US, is now Thailand's largest trading partner.
Understanding China's banks
Life, Chris Baker, Published on 26/01/2017
» Every couple of years now, a book appears predicting the imminent crisis, breakdown, collapse or disintegration of China. The professor Cassandra touting a recent example passed through Bangkok last week. Among such works there is a subset that focuses on finance, especially banking. These books and articles argue that China's banks are inefficient because of government control; that they are racking up debt, much of which is hidden; and that, unless they are quickly privatised, they will be the spark for the aforesaid crisis, breakdown, collapse, or disintegration. In the last month, I have twice been treated to this argument first-hand, once from an American and once from a Japanese.
More equal than most
Life, Published on 04/01/2016
» Over the past decade of Thailand's political turmoil, the colour-coded camps contesting power have offered starkly different visions of the kind of country they would like Thailand to be. Different perceptions of inequality in Thailand are at the heart of the polarisation.
Thailand needs a democratic, just society
News, Published on 02/04/2015
» Over the past year, several foreign governments have exhorted Thailand to "bring back democracy" and "hold elections". As Americans who between us have resided in Thailand for over a century, we regard these well-intentioned exhortations as counter-productive and simplistic, revealing inadequate understanding of the cultural, social, and political challenges that Thailand must deal with if it is to develop sustainable democratic governance.
Thailand needs a democratic, just society
Published on 02/04/2015
» Thailand needs a democratic, just society Over the past year, several foreign governments have exhorted Thailand to “bring back democracy” and “hold elections”.