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    Onus on Pheu Thai as support dwindles

    Oped, Chairith Yonpiam, Published on 09/09/2023

    » After making a policy statement before parliament on Monday, the Pheu Thai-led coalition is set to jumpstart its work under tight scrutiny from the opposition, especially the Move Forward Party (MFP). If this was not enough, members of the public are casting suspicious eyes at its policies, as several seem too good to be true.

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    Time to take axe to PM2.5

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 14/06/2023

    » It has been two weeks since new PM2.5 emissions standards took effect.

  • News & article

    China's 'comeback' needs more than a policy reversal

    Oped, Published on 27/01/2023

    » When President Joe Biden took office in 2021, his first message to the rest of the world was: "America is back". Having assumed his third term as general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in October, President Xi Jinping appears to be issuing a similar proclamation.

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    Use the tourism fund ethically

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 15/01/2023

    » Thailand is no stranger to superlatives. Some of them do not engender pride, such as being among the top three nations with the highest number of coups; but a few others, such as having the most visited capital city in the world, make everyone beam with pride.

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    Too lax on Covid curbs?

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 06/01/2023

    » This Sunday, the Great Wall of Covid quarantine in China finally will be lifted, with millions of Chinese travellers set to make their first overseas trip in three years after an outbound travel ban that has been in place since January 2020.

  • News & article

    Living with the virus

    Life, Pattarawadee Saengmanee, Published on 19/12/2022

    » Thailand is gearing up for the upcoming holiday season, with the government collaborating with the private sector to offer a variety of entertainment and leisure activities to create a festive mood. The precautionary measures have been lifted, and people are congregating outside to socialise. Everything seems to be going well, but we shouldn't be careless.

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    Life, liberty and lost China output

    Oped, Published on 15/12/2022

    » The anti-quarantine protests that erupted across China last month highlight the gulf between the Chinese people and Communist Party leaders regarding the necessity of the strict zero-Covid policy. Given the obvious disconnect, it is worth examining how and why the authorities and the public have grown so far apart in their assessment of the policy's costs and benefits.

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    What's next in zero-Covid China drama

    News, Published on 12/12/2022

    » China's leaders always knew that they would have to abandon their zero-Covid policy eventually and that the longer they waited, the more painful the transition would be.

  • News & article

    Geoeconomics of the US-China tech war

    Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 16/09/2022

    » Chinese President Xi Jinping's arrival in Central Asia this week in his first overseas travel in nearly three years is perhaps the most consequential irony of the coronavirus pandemic. As the place where the deadly pandemic began in early 2020, China was the first to swiftly and successfully suppress and contain Covid-19 within weeks, while its counterparts in North America and Europe languished for months under mounting death tolls and hospitalisations.

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    Curb dodgy durian trade

    News, Editorial, Published on 12/09/2022

    » The rise in the discovery of substandard durians meant for export to China is raising an alarm in the local durian industry.

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