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The ability to change is crucial for any nation's growth
News, Prasarn Trairatvorakul, Published on 09/10/2013
» What happens in emerging markets matter. Together, they account for more than half of the world's GDP. The group of countries known as Bric _ Brazil, Russia, India and China _ has powered global economic growth since the early 2000s [now known as Brics with the inclusion of South Africa in 2010]. By mid-2009, these economies were growing 7 percentage points faster than the G7 economies and contributed around two-thirds of world output growth.
Investing in family farmers will help feed the world
News, Published on 06/09/2013
» Right now, 870 million people in the world are hungry. In Thailand alone, an estimated five million people do not get enough to eat. Thailand, along with 37 other countries, surpassed the UN Millennium Development Goal of halving its 1990 hunger rate three years ahead of the 2015 deadline, and the UN reports that many other countries are on track to do the same by 2015. But before the world gives itself a collective pat on the back, it's important to realise nearly one in eight people are still hungry.
Why this week marks my true Myanmar homecoming
News, Published on 09/08/2013
» When I returned to Myanmar in February last year after 24 years in exile, I thought my life had come full circle. I was wrong. This week that will be my final true homecoming.
Talking only course for South
News, Published on 07/07/2013
» Pol Gen Pracha Promnok's statement last week that peace talks in the South should continue and more groups be included is sensible and welcome. As TE Lawrence once wrote, one of the primary conditions for a successful guerrilla campaign is the support of the local population, or at least its refusal to help the authorities by providing them with intelligence. This is one of the reasons why security forces have had so little success in stopping the violence in the South and why the government is right to try to resolve the problem through talks.
It's Chaturon's time to shine
News, Published on 03/07/2013
» If the weekend polls were accurate, the public is not expecting much from the new cabinet that was sworn in on Sunday evening.
Poor need living wage far above poverty threshold
News, Published on 07/06/2013
» In an entire year a Bangladeshi garment worker will make less than one of the world's wealthiest people, Gina Reinhardt, makes in one single second. Six people in the Walmart family own more wealth than the annual budget of Bangladesh's government. One percent of the world's population owns more wealth than the bottom 95% and the global financial crisis has increased inequality even further.
Safe water, sanitation an elusive goal
News, Noeleen Heyzer, Published on 30/05/2013
» Without water there is no life. Clean drinking water and sanitation are basic human rights _ essential to life and to all other rights. Lack of access to clean water and sanitation is a silent crisis that destroys livelihoods and claims more lives through illness than any war claims through guns.
Politics of perception
Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 04/04/2013
» What does North Korea fear the most? A revolution that would bring down the Pyongyang regime.
Postbag: Chalerm so transparent
News, Published on 24/10/2012
» Re: ''Chalerm may have got off on the wrong foot'', Opinion, Oct 22.
Strong stand on Sorayuth
News, Published on 13/10/2012
» As a former journalist, I would like to commend the Bangkok Post's editorial team for their decision to run the ''Advertisers mull pulling support for Sorayuth'' story on Thursday's front page.