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Maternal deaths shock
News, Editorial, Published on 28/08/2015
» The number of mothers dying during childbirth is one of the most important indicators of a country's development. The latest findings by the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) showing the country's actual maternal mortality rate is many times higher than the official statistics are therefore shocking.
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Schools need overhaul
News, Editorial, Published on 04/09/2015
» The Education Ministry's decision to cut class hours in state schools is a move in the right direction. But this policy alone cannot bring significant changes to the distressing state of the education system.
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Drug payoffs thwart action
News, Editorial, Published on 27/10/2015
» A group of concerned Myanmar citizens has made the biggest advance in the struggle against illicit drugs in many years. The grassroots group, which calls itself the Kachin Anti-Drug Committee, has taken action where government authorities have fallen short.
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Answers needed on the latest oil spill
News, Editorial, Published on 01/11/2015
» The sight of an oil-drenched crab clawing its way across the beach of Hua Hin, dragging a trail of viscous black goo across the sand, is hardly the image authorities have in mind when promoting Thailand as an idyllic tourist destination. It is perhaps for this very reason men in clean navy blazers with government insignia brought out shiny shovels and posed for the cameras on Wednesday morning. The Hua Hin Tourist Police chose a particularly white and clean stretch of beach to show social media they were busy extracting black gold.
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Punish Klong Dan cheaters
News, Editorial, Published on 19/11/2015
» The cabinet on Tuesday approved a budget of 9.8 billion baht to be disbursed from the Central Fund for the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to pay the NVPSKG consortium for the construction of the Klong Dan waste water treatment project in Samut Prakan province as ordered by the Administrative Court.
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Too brutal for Asean
News, Editorial, Published on 04/01/2016
» The shocking photos and video of last week's whippings in Indonesia's Aceh province have refocused attention on a serious problem within Asean. On the eve of the Asean community becoming an economic union, a woman and five men were caned in public in Banda Aceh. Four were whipped for gambling and a couple were caned for "indecency". Such barbarity has no place in a modernising and progressive Asean Community (AC), which was formed to bring prosperity.
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Securing the tourism sector
News, Editorial, Published on 19/01/2016
» In an under-achieving and worrying economy, there has been one clear success. The statistics are impressive from every angle. Last year, 29.88 million tourists put 2.21 trillion baht into the economy.
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Another fine draft mess
News, Editorial, Published on 01/02/2016
» Three days after the publication of the second attempt at presenting an acceptable draft constitution, there appears to be little cause for optimism. The chief drafter of Constitution 2.0, Meechai Ruchupan, doubts he can make the November2017 deadline for the first post-coup election. No political party or politician has had a kind word for his work. Newspaper headlines run along the lines of "Thumbs down for charter". The prime minister already believes voters may reject it at the planned referendum.
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It's time for CP All to set some standards
News, Editorial, Published on 21/02/2016
» The Association of Investment Management Companies (AIMC) and other local institutional investors’ decision to sanction CP All for its failure to act on the insider trading scandal is welcomed. On Thursday, AIMC agreed not to increase its stake in CP All until the operator of the 7-Eleven convenience stores punishes the CP All executives found guilty of insider trading.
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Plan for the ageing
News, Editorial, Published on 29/06/2016
» Against much advice and common sense, the Finance Ministry is now pushing even harder to take back old-age allowances from some elderly people.
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