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    Ensuring safety and health at work

    Oped, Published on 26/04/2024

    » Climate change is having serious impacts on the safety and health of workers in the Asia-Pacific region.

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    The threat posed by Cambodia's new strongman

    Oped, Published on 26/04/2024

    » Although 2024 is being heralded as a banner year for elections, with dozens of countries -- representing more than half the global population -- holding polls, for some, it marks the nadir of democracy. Cambodia is one such case.

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    Thai police graft highlights bigger issues

    Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 26/04/2024

    » There is no bigger news on the current Thai political scene than corruption among the top echelons of the police force. At issue is the tussle between Thailand's two senior-most cops, Pol Gen Surachate Hakparn and Pol Gen Torsak Sukvimol, both accusing each other of being on the take. Their high-stakes feud would normally be a run-of-the-mill story for the infamously shady Thai police but this case has become a mirror and microcosm of structural graft that is corroding the highest corridors of politics, economy, and society.

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    Saving the Senate

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 26/04/2024

    » The 250-member Senate's five-year term will end on May 10. Hand-picked by the junta, when it was known as the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), and appointed by HM the King in accordance with Section 113 of the Constitution, it is little surprise the Senate will be remembered as the legacy of the former military government led by Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha.

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    All in to fix charter

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 25/04/2024

    » Through its endorsement of three referendums that would amend Thailand's entire charter, a proposal that was forwarded by a study panel under Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai, the government has now set in motion the charter drafting process. It is looking like it will proceed at a snail's pace.

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    The future of Bangkok-Dhaka ties

    Oped, Published on 25/04/2024

    » With Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina having arrived in Bangkok to attend the eightieth session of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (Escap) from April 24-29, the stage is set for Bangladesh and Thailand to embark on a journey of enhanced cooperation.

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    Are all of us ready for AI creative destruction?

    Oped, Published on 24/04/2024

    » The ancient Chinese concept of yin and yang attests to humans' tendency to see patterns of interlocked opposites in the world around us, a predilection that has lent itself to various theories of natural cycles in social and economic phenomena. Just as the great medieval Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun saw the path of an empire's eventual collapse imprinted in its ascent, the twentieth-century economist Nikolai Kondratiev postulated that the modern global economy moves in "long wave" super-cycles.

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    Thai-Israeli relations need recalibrating

    Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 23/04/2024

    » This year, Thailand and Israel celebrate 70 years of diplomatic ties. Obviously, this comes during a period of great strain for Israel and the broader Middle East. Amidst it all, Thailand must recalibrate one of its most important foreign policies in the Middle East; otherwise, there will be nothing to celebrate.

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    The trials and tribulations of Melania Trump

    News, Maureen Dowd, Published on 23/04/2024

    » Outside my office, there is a picture of the Slovenian Sphinx visiting the Egyptian Sphinx, taken during a 2018 photo shoot in Giza nine months after Melania Trump was blindsided by the steamy news about her husband and Stormy Daniels.

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    Education on how to be a happy soul

    News, Published on 22/04/2024

    » Extreme poverty is primarily a mental phenomenon caused by the fact that we give real meaning to money.

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