SEARCH

Showing 1-10 of 2,652 results

  • News & article

    Carbon credits key to ending deforestation

    News, Published on 29/03/2024

    » Over the past few years, intense media scrutiny has prompted a growing number of companies to pursue high-quality carbon credits. Seeking to avoid accusations of "greenwashing", many of these firms are no longer content with merely offsetting their emissions and have been actively seeking credits that deliver tangible benefits to local communities.

  • News & article

    It'll take more than patriotism to save the ringgit

    News, Daniel Moss, Published on 28/03/2024

    » Malaysia wants to be great again, at least in foreign exchange. The nation's currency recently approached a level seen as near-catastrophic during the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s. Authorities insist the ringgit is way too cheap and blame forces outside the country, chiefly high interest rates in the US. The remedies are modest, compared with the shock therapy meted out a couple of decades ago.

  • News & article

    Making exports for a low-carbon era

    Oped, Published on 27/03/2024

    » Exports have been Thailand's important growth engine for many decades. A number of Thailand's export destinations have shown increasing interest in and support for low-carbon products. Failure to meet global demand for low-carbon products risks Thailand's competitiveness in international trade.

  • News & article

    Developing nations sour on multilateralism

    Oped, Published on 23/03/2024

    » Multilateralism is waning, and one of the world's leading multilateral institutions, the WTO, is in crisis because the US has been blocking new appointments to its dispute settlement mechanism's Appellate Body since 2018. In the run-up to the WTO's 13th Ministerial Conference last month, some optimists hoped to see progress on specific issues, such as an agreement not to impose tariffs on digital commerce, but expectations were generally low.

  • News & article

    Saffron swindlers

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 22/03/2024

    » The news of the Central Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct this week handing a 480-year-plus jail term to a former abbot for embezzling temple donations is shocking enough. But the story gets even more convoluted.

  • News & article

    Structural flaws impede our economy

    Oped, Chartchai Parasuk, Published on 21/03/2024

    » It took Japan 17 years to learn that a macroeconomic policy is for stabilising an economy, not stimulating growth. Due to low economic growth in the "lost decade" following the financial crisis in the autumn of 1997, the Bank of Japan adopted an unthinkable monetary policy of a negative interest rate in 2007 by pushing the short-term policy rate down to -0.1%.

  • News & article

    Bolstering UK-Thai shared interests

    Oped, Published on 20/03/2024

    » Britain and Thailand are two nations on either side of our world. And yet, returning to Bangkok this week, I am struck by our many similarities.

  • News & article

    Elephant torture

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 16/03/2024

    » Re: "Plans for training centres to tame angry elephants", (BP, March 15).

  • News & article

    More affordable climate finance

    Oped, Published on 14/03/2024

    » Emerging-market and developing economies (EMDEs) will need an estimated US$2.4 trillion (86 trillion baht) in climate investment annually to meet climate goals, according to the Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance, with $1 trillion coming from external sources. Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will require even more financing: an increase of $3.5 trillion in new investments annually by 2030. These are daunting figures. But they are also non-negotiable.

  • News & article

    Simple solution

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 13/03/2024

    » Re: "Suvarnabhumi can shine again", (Editorial, March 10).

Your recent history

  • Recently searched

    • Recently viewed links

      Did you find what you were looking for? Have you got some comments for us?