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Take antibiotics off the menu
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 28/03/2017
» As a pig-farm owner in Nakhon Pathom, Sitthichai Suksomboon spent hundreds of thousands of baht each month on antibiotics to keep over 1,000 pigs in his possession healthy and disease-free. Little did he realise that by doing so, he was gradually putting himself in really bad shape.
Pridiyathorn objects to military's planned national oil corp
Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 27/03/2017
» Former deputy prime minister Pridiyathorn Devakula complained on Monday of an "irregular move by the military" to form a national oil corporation that he said would have unrestrained power.
Asean typifies anti-globalisation
News, Published on 27/03/2017
» Since World War II, the world has experienced a steady wave of globalisation. However, a series of recent events suggests that the tide may be turning. International trade as a proportion of global GDP has stopped growing in the past decade. World trade grew at 1.9%, while world GDP grew 2.3% in 2016.
Trump set to undo Obama global-warming plans
Associated Press, Published on 27/03/2017
» WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump will soon sign a new executive order that unravels his predecessor's sweeping plan to curb global warming, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Sunday.
Road carnage will continue
News, Postbag, Published on 26/03/2017
» Your leader column on March 24 contrasts with commentary, written by Ploenpote Atthakor on the opposite page.
Healthcare failure a major embarrassment for Trump
Published on 25/03/2017
» WASHINGTON: US Republican leaders, facing a revolt among conservatives and moderates alike in their ranks, abandoned attempts to repeal Obamacare and pass their own healthcare bill on Friday in a major defeat for President Donald Trump in the first legislative showdown of his presidency.
Oshie steers Capitals to close victory over Blue Jackets
Sports, Published on 25/03/2017
» WASHINGTON - TJ Oshie scored the shoot-out winner as the Washington Capitals overcame a stellar performance from Columbus goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky to beat the Blue Jackets 2-1 in the NHL on Thursday night.
Overcrowded Thai prisons need reform
News, Published on 25/03/2017
» Thailand's long-standing policy of harsh sentences for drug offenders including petty drug users and small time dealers has overcrowded its prisons, forcing female and male prisoners to live in inhumane and degrading conditions. Jails in Thailand are the most cramped in Southeast Asia. The country's prison occupancy rate is also the world's 10th highest.
No special law needed to buckle up
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 24/03/2017
» The latest move by the government to get tough with traffic law violators is laudable. But invoking Section 44 for this purpose seems more laughable than praiseworthy to me.
Facebook can't have it both ways
News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 24/03/2017
» Nearly everyone has criticism for German Justice Minister Heiko Maas's proposal to impose fines on social networks and their workers for failure to delete hateful content. Internet freedom advocates hate it for imposing censorship. The European Union is concerned for the same reason and the German union of judges and prosecutors criticise it for not going far enough because the posters of hate-speech themselves escape punishment.