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Big changes begin down on the farm
News, Published on 08/12/2014
» A giant feast was laid out before me. There were too many dishes to count, but I could vividly remember my favourite picks: Grilled chicken marinated with wild red ants (the urine of the red ants is supposed to give the dish an added tangy flavour), whole roasted Nile Tilapia fish in a salt crust, grilled field crabs and, of course, steamed chemical-free rice.
The consequences of gender at work
News, Published on 28/11/2014
» Until recently, there has been very little analysis of women's role in the economy. Two centuries ago, Mary Wollstonecraft published her proto-feminist A Vindication of the Rights of Women, and in 1869 John Stuart Mill, inspired by his wife Harriet, wrote The Subjection of Women in support of female suffrage. But new evidence is emerging of the cultural barriers to women's economic advancement, which must be addressed if the world is ever to attain its goal of gender equality.
Stifling public discourse will only provoke dissent
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 21/11/2014
» The key phrase, in Thai, is eud ad. It means frustrated, ill at ease, feeling discomfort, cramped, suffocated or stifled.
Time not right to meddle with local govt
News, Published on 16/10/2014
» In Thailand, there is widespread discussion as to whether the provincial and subdistrict administrative organisations (PAOs and SAOs) should be radically reformed or even abolished.
Postbag: Delusional optimism
News, Published on 11/10/2014
» Re: “More than democracy”, (PostBag, Oct 9).
Energy reform raises public suspicions
News, Published on 06/08/2014
» In my previous article on July 23, I explained that opposing views about Thailand's energy reform may reflect the debate between "efficiency" and "equity."
Sustainable growth calls for people-centred goal
News, Published on 09/07/2014
» We are meeting at a crucial juncture — where we are making both a final push to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and generating momentum in identifying the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Every coup has a silver lining
Guru, Sumati Sivasiamphai, Published on 13/06/2014
» It has been about three weeks since our military overlords took over the country in the May 22 coup. Despite some valiant efforts by the army to repay rice farmers money owed to them, a plan to revise various state projects, and the military junta chief using an hour of his precious time to pen the sappy song “Returning Happiness to the People”, there still seems to be some confusion over what sort of real reform will actually be achieved.
Sex, drugs and GDP calculations
News, Published on 03/06/2014
» Europe has a new source of economic growth. In the next few months all European Union countries that do not already include drugs, prostitution, and other illegal and grey-market businesses in their gross domestic product calculations will have to do so.
Mai pen rai no longer
News, Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 01/06/2014
» There is opportunity in crisis, the old adage tells us. Looking in the long term, something potentially wonderful may well come out of this decade-long political quagmire.