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Southeast Asia turns up heat on smokers
News, Apiradee Treerutkuarkul, Published on 25/04/2012
» With Southeast Asia to be one community in 2015, anti-smoking campaigners are joining forces to turn the fast-growing region into a healthy area by trying to make life difficult for smokers.
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Why not G-193?
News, Published on 19/05/2012
» Re: ''America's 'G-Zero' moment looms'' (BP, Opinion, May 18)
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Rice policy own goal
News, Published on 11/08/2012
» Re: ''Govt shrugs off rice probe'' (BP, Aug 10). I think the Thai officials who came out to defend the government's rice-pledging policy are off target concerning the United States' attempt to scrutinise Thailand's rice policy.
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Myanmar moving past colonial collage
News, Published on 28/10/2012
» In ways big and small, Asia is still living with the tainted legacy of imperialism. Consider the debate now underway in Myanmar. Because the imperial tongue found it difficult to pronounce Myanmar, the country's no-nonsense British masters renamed it Burma (redrawing its borders as well for good measure).
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Cambodian clarification
News, Published on 17/11/2012
» I am writing with regard to Gregory Poling and Alexandria Sander's commentary, ''EAS offers Cambodia chance to restore its reputation'', (Nov 14), which is full of ignorance and misunderstanding.
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Sadness for Rohingya
News, Published on 05/01/2013
» Over the New Year's holiday, a group of Rohingya refugees managed to get by boat to Langkawi in Malaysia. Many swam over 500m to reach land and at least one died. Another boat of Rohingya refugees managed to reach Phuket around the same time.
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Megaprojects yes, but cui bono?
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 29/01/2013
» Two trillion baht is a lot of money. It can buy about 17 Suvarnabhumi airports. Even spread over a period of seven years, which is what the government is proposing, it still amounts to spending of about 280 billion baht a year. That would be enough to buy another nine Red Line electric train routes, at an estimated 30 billion baht per line.
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China counts cost of hyper growth
News, Published on 25/02/2013
» China's high-growth dependency on fixed-asset investments has brought with it high energy costs, opening a Pandora's box of inflation, raising costs of production, transport costs and labor wages, while reducing China's competitive advantage and threatening to roll back economic achievements that characterised the China economic miracle.
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Tourism boom demands transport solutions
News, Published on 15/05/2013
» Asean's booming economy and its robust domestic demand have positive implications for intra-Asean tourism. But supply-side limitations regarding infrastructure connectivity and tourist worker mobility may prevent Asean from fully capitalising on surging demand.
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Thailand, Myanmar share common destiny
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 17/05/2013
» One of the exaggerated nuggets of official Thai history focuses on Siamese independence in December 1767 after its capital Ayutthaya had been sacked by converging Burmese armies seven months earlier.
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