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  • BUSINESS

    Facebook puts 'Instagram Kids' project on hold

    Business, Published on 29/09/2021

    » New York: Facebook Inc announced on Monday that it was pausing development of the children's version of its Instagram video-sharing social networking service, after widespread criticism and building worries the platform could damage young people's mental health.

  • OPINION

    The rise of consumer cryptocurrency

    News, Published on 26/02/2024

    » Since its inception with the launch of Bitcoin in 2008, blockchain technology has gone through numerous cycles of public attention. Over time, growing interest and investment in the best-known cryptocurrencies has led to greater acceptance, as highlighted by the US Securities and Exchange Commission's approval of a spot Bitcoin ETF (exchange-traded fund) in January. While blockchains and their associated "crypto" assets have yet to be adopted by a truly broad base of consumers, that is starting to change, owing to a shift in how these technologies are being used.

  • OPINION

    Don't rely on last year's trends for global economy

    Oped, Published on 16/01/2024

    » Behavioural economists have popularised the term "recency bias" to describe our tendency to be disproportionately influenced by the latest events compared to earlier ones. Could this cognitive phenomenon explain why numerous analysts have a rather optimistic tilt for the world economy in 2024? Or are there really positive trends counterbalancing the obvious and mounting challenges to global growth?

  • MOTORING

    EV in new Transporter line-up

    Published on 09/10/2023

    » The next-generation Volkswagen Transporter will arrive in 2024 with an all-new architecture developed with Ford and offering pure-electric power for the first time.

  • OPINION

    Energy transition confronts reality

    Oped, Published on 03/02/2023

    » The "energy transition" from hydrocarbons to renewables and electrification is at the forefront of policy debates nowadays. But the last 18 months have shown this undertaking to be more challenging and complex than one would think just from studying the graphs that appear in many scenarios. Even in the United States and Europe, which have adopted massive initiatives to move things along, the development, deployment, and scaling up of the new technologies on which the transition ultimately depends will be determined only over time.

  • OPINION

    Could the study of humanities be automated?

    Oped, Published on 29/09/2022

    » There has been much hand-wringing about the crisis of the humanities, and recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) have added to the angst. It is not only truck drivers whose jobs are threatened by automation. Now, they are demonstrating proficiency in the tasks that occupy humanities professors when they are not giving lectures: namely, writing papers and submitting them for publication in academic journals.

  • BUSINESS

    Luxury Car Makers Drive Formula One to Survive

    Business, Published on 27/06/2022

    » Formula One motor racing might be just the kind of noisy marketing tool luxury car makers need in the hush of the electric era.

  • LIFE

    Sustainable fashion is here

    Life, Noko, Published on 13/01/2022

    » Since 2019, Prada has been replacing virgin nylon with Re-Nylon in a bold move towards sustainable fashion.

  • THAILAND

    Private sector jots wish list

    Business, Post Reporters, Published on 11/02/2019

    » Despite having different work cultures and development mindsets, public and private policies should ideally go hand-in-hand to usher a country's development forward.

  • OPINION

    Late King's wishes for Thai children

    News, Published on 12/01/2019

    » As Thailand celebrates National Children's Day today, I wish to share my recollection of a memorable audience with His Majesty the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej and his profound message and wishes for the children of Thailand and the world. I had the great honour to meet the late king on Nov 12, 1998. I was then serving as Unicef's regional director for East Asia and the Pacific, based in Bangkok. The occasion of my audience with the late king at Chitralada Palace was to accompany visiting Unicef executive director Carol Bellamy. Also accompanying us was the late Thai foreign minister Surin Pitsuwan. ​

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