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    Indonesia's Asean chair faces challenges

    News, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 03/01/2023

    » Over the course of 25 years of democratic transformation that followed the Suharto era, whenever Indonesia served as the Asean chair, new ideas and plans seemed to mushroom.

  • OPINION

    Land tax loophole endangers our environment

    Oped, Published on 29/12/2022

    » The public is little aware of the problem, but a new land tax is Thailand's most environmentally destructive policy in the 21st century so far. Taxing land and buildings is a standard policy around the world, and it makes good economic sense. That's why parliament in 2019 passed the law in question -- the Land and Building Tax Act, which went into effect in 2020, imposing annual tax rates ranging from 0.01% to 1.2% or more on the value of the land.

  • OPINION

    Humanitarian peril on western border

    News, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 13/12/2022

    » While the country's political machinery and personnel are now gearing up for the upcoming election, there is a humanitarian crisis in waiting on the western border. Politicians have so far turned a blind eye.

  • OPINION

    Is Ukraine winning the war too much?

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/12/2022

    » When the two most senior military and intelligence officials in Washington make the same obvious error in public three times in three weeks, you have to wonder what they are really up to. Can it just be simple ignorance, or do they have a hidden agenda?

  • OPINION

    Fear rules desolate border battleground

    News, Paskorn Jumlongrach, Published on 18/07/2022

    » Many houses have their own bunkers, with some villagers even digging holes and putting layers of sandbags around them. A few houses even have concrete or wooden roofing covered with sandbags.

  • OPINION

    A win for Kru Ti and the Mekong River

    Oped, Paskorn Jumlongrach, Published on 28/05/2022

    » Over the past 20 years, Niwat Roykaew, a teacher, activist and founder of the Chiang Khong Conservation Group in Chiang Rai province has been campaigning to bolster the grassroots movement he initiated to protect the Mekong River, a crucial lifeline for countries in the Mekong Region.

  • 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

    Preventing a proxy war in Myanmar

    Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 22/03/2022

    » While it still can, Asean must prevent a proxy war in Myanmar.

  • OPINION

    Fears mount over Black Sea crops

    News, Published on 02/03/2022

    » The stoppage of grain exports out of Ukraine was confirmed on Monday as the country said all ports will be closed until the end of the Russian invasion, though there is a chance that supplies for the next season out of both Ukraine and Russia could also be in jeopardy pending the outcome of the war.

  • OPINION

    Myanmar poses Asean quandary

    News, Editorial, Published on 13/02/2022

    » In the year following the coup in Myanmar which unseated Aung San Suu Kyi, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner and then State Counsellor (a position equivalent to prime minister), the country's military has continued to pursue a policy of violence against detractors, leaving the world aghast. It has also left Asean in a quandary over how to handle the situation in a manner befitting its aspirations for growth, future prosperity and influence on the world stage.

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