• OPINION

  Myanmar must fully implement 5PC

  Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 23/01/2024

  » All credible sources indicate that since Operation 1027 was launched at the end of October, the State Administration Council (SAC) has lost approximately 469 military bases in various parts of Myanmar.

• OPINION

  The dramatic fall of the House of Rajapaksa

  News, Brahma Chellaney, Published on 14/07/2022

  » For much of nearly two decades, the four Rajapaksa brothers and their sons have run Sri Lanka like a family business -- and a disorderly one, at that. With their grand construction projects and spendthrift ways, they saddled Sri Lanka with unsustainable debts, driving the country into its worst economic crisis since independence. Now, the dynasty has fallen.

• OPINION

  Asean tackling aid for Myanmar people

  Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 03/05/2022

  » Despite setbacks due to the unsettled domestic conditions inside Myanmar since the coup in February 2021, Asean is moving ahead to explore practical ways to provide urgent humanitarian assistance to the affected peoples of Myanmar, the number of which will soon reach one million.

• OPINION

  Shipping is worse than aviation

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/03/2021

  » 'We're waiting on food goods like coconut milk and syrups, some spare parts for motors, we've got some fork lift trucks, some Amazon goods on there, all sorts," said Steve Parks of Seaport Freight Services in England, who is awaiting twenty of the 18,300 containers aboard the Ever Given. Which of those things cannot be sourced from somewhere closer than Asia?

• OPINION

  Rethink EEC land use plan

  News, Editorial, Published on 02/11/2017

  » The military regime's relentless efforts to promote economic development have merit. But it is not always a case of the ends justifying the means as it may claim.

• OPINION

  Depreciating infrastructure hurts us all

  Oped, Published on 24/12/2016

  » America's infrastructure is headed down a bumpy road, and unless the country takes drastic action to fix its ailing transport, water, and other infrastructure systems, it might well wind up with the types of struggles I've witnessed recently in Myanmar.

• OPINION

  Homes sat only 610 metres from ravaged chemical warehouse

  News, Andrew Jacobs, Published on 17/08/2015

  » The high-rise apartment complex closest to Tianjin's toxic chemical storage inferno was only 610 metres away, despite Chinese laws requiring a 975m minimum distance from hazardous sites.

• OPINION

  Drop Pak Bara port plans

  News, Published on 20/04/2015

  » Government inertia can be a problem, though sometimes it is a good thing. It puts on hold projects with huge destructive potential. The government is trying to give new direction to many programmes and projects of the past. One of these is the plan to develop Satun province. An early and important part of this old and ongoing plan is to build an Andaman Sea deepwater port at Pak Bara, a small village in Satun's Langu district. At a time when the military regime is claiming credit for recovering parkland from law-breaking encroachers, it is actively planning massive encroachment on a wonderful national park.

• OPINION

  Development forges on, but at what cost?

  News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 19/12/2014

  » US President Barack Obama on Tuesday used his executive authority to impose an indefinite ban on oil and gas exploration in Alaska's picturesque Bristol Bay, home to beluga and killer whales and the endangered North Pacific right whale.

• OPINION

  Prayut hasone chance

  News, Published on 13/10/2014

  » Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha had a mostly successful first trip as head of government last week. His two-day visit to Myanmar featured friendly talks at several levels, in addition to the usual diplomatic niceties. Efforts to rejuvenate the stalled construction of a seaport and industrial zone at Dawei were positive, although not conclusive. The only speed bump in the diplomatic road was the contentious police work on the Koh Tao beach murders, and the controversial arrests of two young Myanmar men who have been charged with the killings.

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