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    The case for a four-day work week

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 09/05/2022

    » Having a work-life balance is a growing priority for many workers. It has come into even sharper focus as employees learn how to live with the pressure brought by the protracted coronavirus pandemic.

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    Climate change urgency grows

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 01/07/2019

    » Climate change is global in nature but it is having an especially severe impact on Asia. Chennai, one of India's largest cities, has run out of water as the summer heat intensifies. With monsoon rains below average, four lakes in the city of 4.7 million have dried up. Residents don't have enough water to drink, bathe or wash clothes, malls have closed their washrooms and restaurants are not open for customers.

  • OPINION

    Myanmar's twin crises loom

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 01/08/2022

    » While the rest of the world continues to be preoccupied by Covid-19 and fallout from Russia-Ukraine war, the downward spiral of Myanmar continues. A once-promising frontier market risks slipping into a Sri Lanka-like economic crisis, exacerbating the humanitarian crisis created by the cruelty of its military junta.

  • OPINION

    Time to tone down Taiwan tensions

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 08/08/2022

    » It was a picture-perfect shot, really. That was my thought when I saw US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi standing side by side with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in Taipei last Wednesday. But the one-day visit to the self-ruled island by the 82-year-old American politician has created no end of tension, not only for the US and China but also many of their allies across the Asia Pacific region.

  • OPINION

    Hope for the marginalised in India

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 25/07/2022

    » While the final no-confidence debate targeting Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and his crew was under way at home last week, my focus was on India's presidential election. The result was widely welcomed as veteran tribal politician Draupadi Murmu made history.

  • OPINION

    Japan's crucial moments after Abe murder

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 18/07/2022

    » It was a bullet that some people said would change Japan forever, and it certainly had people outside taking a closer look at the world's third largest economy. For me, hearing the news that Shinzo Abe had been shot on July 8 was a shock similar to the events of Sept 11, 2001, which most people agree changed the world.

  • OPINION

    Pride Month is for everyone

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 13/06/2022

    » June marks LGBTQI Pride Month, celebrating people who are "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex". I think most of us agree with US President Joe Biden's declaration that LGBTQI people are loved and cherished, and they deserve "dignity, respect and support".

  • OPINION

    Biden-BTS summit fuels hope

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 06/06/2022

    » Perhaps Joe Biden's pursuit to engage more with Asia has just started. Just days after a trip to South Korea and Japan late last month, his first visit to Asia as US president, the 79-year-old leader followed up with a message that touched the hearts of millions of Asians, particularly those living in his country.

  • OPINION

    Time to move on from Zero Covid

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 23/05/2022

    » It's finally time for Shanghai residents to breathe easier and feel a greater sense of freedom. After nearly two months of lockdown, the commercial hub of 25 million started to allow more people to go out to buy groceries for the first time last Thursday after a fifth straight day of no new Covid-19 infections outside quarantine areas.

  • OPINION

    Politics and peril for Asian women

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 16/05/2022

    » The political landscape in Asia has been very dynamic lately, but it is a disappointment to me personally that events have not been kind to women.

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