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America's `G-Zero' moment looms
News, Published on 18/05/2012
» The 2008 financial crisis marked the end of the global order as we knew it. In advance of the upcoming G-8 summit, it is impossible to overlook the fact that, for the first time in seven decades, the United States cannot drive the international agenda or provide global leadership on all of today's most pressing problems.
Fear of anarchy within Syria is leading to just that
News, Published on 04/05/2012
» The failure of US President Barack Obama's administration, its Western allies, and several Middle East regional powers to take bolder action to stop the carnage in Syria is often explained by their fear of anarchy.
Courting 'financial pariah' status
News, Published on 13/04/2012
» This past February, Thailand was added to a high-risk blacklist by an international organisation many people have never heard of.
Brics' Delhi Declaration foretells a new world order
News, Published on 01/04/2012
» Meeting in the Indian capital last week, the leaders of Brazil, Russia, China, India and South Africa forged a blueprint for an enlightened more hopeful future
Annan's mission of peace at a standstill
News, Published on 18/03/2012
» Kofi Annan was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in November 2001 jointly with the United Nations organisation which he headed from January 1997 to January 2007. He will surely deserve another if he can pull off his latest endeavour as special envoy for both the UN and the African Union to bring Syrian President President Bashar Assad and a representative opposition group to the negotiating table. At the moment the prospects of his success look slim. Mr Annan was in Syria last week meeting both Mr Assad and opposition leaders, but it was a week that saw the situation on the ground continue to deteriorate. Though Mr Annan was received by both sides, neither hopes for peace talks.
City needs two airports
News, Published on 17/03/2012
» Re: '' Single-airport policy ends'' (BP, March 16).
Haze is poor man's revenge
News, Published on 04/03/2012
» The fires which are causing bad air quality in the North are in effect a poor man's revenge on us all. Poor farmers burn their fields since they can't afford any other method of weeding. Hill tribe people burn the common forest because it generates mushrooms after the first rains, which apparently earn them 2,000 baht a day at markets.
Call off this feud, before it kills us
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 03/03/2012
» "Did you want to kill him, Buck?"
Don't rush to judgement
News, Imtiaz Muqbil, Published on 19/02/2012
» Although the anti-Iran campaign is in full swing, major holes are emerging in the story spun so far.
Don't just keep relying on luck
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 17/02/2012
» Faraway tensions from the precarious brinkmanship in the Middle East have reached Thai soil with the apparent terrorist bungle in central Bangkok. The government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra continues to deny international terrorist presence in Thailand, but the weight of evidence increasingly points to the contrary. Thailand is a soft target among third-country theatres of operation. Unless the Thai authorities beef up their security measures and conduct deft diplomacy in the near term, the risk of this easygoing country degenerating from a transit point for illicit crimes to an outright staging ground of international terrorist violence will grow.