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Trump's tariffs will end in tears all round
News, Koichi Hamada, Published on 24/03/2025
» If US President Donald Trump is skilled at anything, it is demagoguery. By stoking voters' fears and prejudices, he manages to win support for, or distract from, extreme policies that benefit himself, his family, and his (mostly ultra-rich) cronies, and cause serious harm to virtually everyone else. The key to his success is knowing which buttons to push.
Sri Lanka's dangerous debt crisis
Oped, Jayati Ghosh & Kanchana N Ruwanpura, Published on 20/09/2023
» More than a year after the mass protest movement known as the Aragalaya ousted Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his brother, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lankans have once again taken to the streets.
The fertiliser conundrum countries face
Oped, Jayati Ghosh, Published on 17/06/2023
» The global food system is broken. Largely dominated by multinational corporations, it enables and encourages unsustainable and unhealthy production and consumption patterns and generates enormous waste across all stages of production and distribution.
'New Welfarism' becoming India's soothing balm
Oped, Arvind Subramanian & Josh Felman, Published on 06/05/2023
» During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, many Indian economists and commentators believed the economy would skyrocket as soon as life returned to normal. But, despite the country's robust recovery in the two years since the pandemic's peak, the predicted boom has not materialised, nor does it seem imminent.
Enforce the plastic ban
Oped, Editorial, Published on 04/01/2022
» Jan 1 was the first day the ban on four types of plastic waste came into effect, which was in line with the cabinet resolution made in February last year. The ban is just one move under a 20-year plan between 2018-2037 called the "Roadmap on Plastic Waste Management".
Merger a disaster
Oped, Postbag, Published on 26/11/2021
» Re: "Telecom mega-merge faces hurdles," (Business, Nov 23) and "Mobile merger seen as perilous," (Business, Nov 24).
Vaccine confusion must end
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 10/05/2021
» As a new wave of the global pandemic creates growing urgency in many parts of the world, Covid-19 vaccines have been in short supply. Only a handful of rich economies, among them the US and European countries, along with China, have secured sufficient supplies for their domestic vaccination programmes.
Weed policy is still hazy
News, Editorial, Published on 22/03/2021
» After parts of the cannabis plant were taken off the country's narcotics list, the commercial prospects of cannabis-related products have become promising. Many business operators, including those listed on the stock market, have launched business plans to cash in on the government's move to partially legalise the once-taboo and criminalised plant.
Let me play the role of Nostradamus
Oped, Chartchai Parasuk, Published on 17/12/2020
» Time flies. The dreadful year of 2020 is coming to a close. Therefore, I've decided to have fun by writing something "comical". No earth-shattering economic analysis. That will be the next article. This week I will make educated predictions of things that might happen in the year 2021. I am no fortune teller, but I will try my best.
A saga of half-lives and half-truths
Oped, Supara Janchitfah, Published on 26/09/2020
» I have more questions than answers upon reading the reply from the Thailand Institute of Nuclear Technology (TINT). Although I appreciate the organisation's attempts to address my long list of questions regarding the controversial multi-billion-baht plan to revive a research reactor project in Ongkharak, Nakhon Nayok province, I am not convinced by their presentation of puzzlingly self-contradictory "facts".