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Southeast Asia turns up heat on smokers
News, Apiradee Treerutkuarkul, Published on 25/04/2012
» With Southeast Asia to be one community in 2015, anti-smoking campaigners are joining forces to turn the fast-growing region into a healthy area by trying to make life difficult for smokers.
The promise of Islamic finance
News, Published on 22/04/2012
» As modern finance falters due to unchecked greed and usurious practices, the traditional method of banking could bring salutary benefits to the worldwide financial system, ending some of the most damaging practices and introducing a sounder approach.
Notes from a 7-Eleven
Guru, Sumati Sivasiamphai, Published on 20/04/2012
» Forget all your woes about social divides, fuel prices and that bar girl you drunkenly married while in a Songkran stupor because I come bearing good news: Thailand is well on its way to being perfect again!
Thai Rath columnist Tawan Songklod
News, Published on 18/04/2012
» Deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has reiterated that Privy Council president Prem Tinsulanonda is not his enemy.
Looking after number one
Life, Boaz Zippor, Published on 04/04/2012
» A couple of weeks ago I wrote about neo-socialism and neo-capitalism, and this week I want to talk about neo-egoism. Now, I know it looks like I just add "neo" in front of words and make up new meanings, but this is not the case.
White-Collar Syndrome
Guru, Sumati Sivasiamphai, Published on 30/03/2012
» Today's gripe is brought to you courtesy of my office chair and the letters "F" and "U".
The prime minister's new challenge
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 08/02/2012
» As head of a super committee charged with water resources management and flood prevention, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has accepted a real challenge which will prove against her critics that she is more than just a pretty face with a sense of high fashion.
They still should have consulted us first
News, Published on 21/01/2012
» Re: ''Importance of travel alerts'' (BP, Editorial, Jan 17).
Towards an Asean declaration of human rights
News, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 20/01/2012
» A much awaited outcome of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations's commitment to human rights in 2012 will be the finalisation of an Asean instrument on human rights, particularly in the form of a Human Rights Declaration. It will underline the perception and position towards human rights in this region. The drafting process under the Asean Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), is now in full swing and is expected to gather momentum leading to a crescendo in the next few months.
Murder of our national beast
News, Published on 19/01/2012
» Two wild elephants were killed for their ivory by poachers who allegedly included some park officials in Kaeng Krachan National Park in Phetchaburi late last month. This is not an unusual incident, wild elephants have been murdered there before.