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Yes, I am a Sone
Life, Sithikorn Wongwudthianun, Published on 07/09/2012
» Have you ever heard of a concert where tickets were sold out in 20 minutes? Not only that, the most expensive tickets were gone in the first five. This incredible feat occurred in Thailand and it was set by a K-pop girl group called Girls' Generation, who will be in town to wow their Thai fans on Sunday evening.
No virtue in lying
News, Published on 03/09/2012
» Eric Baht in his letter ''Power of prevarication'' (Postbag, Sept 2), quotes examples of friends who claim lying has granted them success in both social and business life.
Thein Sein appoints 'super cabinet'
News, Larry Jagan, Published on 04/09/2012
» After months of speculation and rumours, Myanmar's president Thein Sein has created a "super" cabinet in order to deflect attention from his besieged administration, riven with divisions and inertia.
World Bank must tear down 'brics'
News, Published on 12/10/2012
» Finance ministers from across Southeast Asia and around the world are gathering in Japan this week for the annual meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund (IMF). It is only the second time in about 40 years that the meetings are being held in Japan, and the first time ever that the World Bank is led by a new kind of leader _ Korean-American physician Jim Yong Kim.
SOS - Save Our Seas
News, Published on 29/07/2012
» This weekend while all eyes are on London for the opening of the Summer Olympics, it may be a good time to take a short break from the tube and look east to another important international event, the 2012 World Expo in Yeosu, South Korea. The theme of the expo, which runs until Aug 12, is the protection of the world's oceans and marine ecosystems. The primary purpose is to educate the public about the deteriorating state of the world's oceans. It is hard to imagine a more relevant issue.
From small deeds big changes grow
News, Saritdet Marukatat, Published on 23/07/2012
» Thailand is not such a hopeless country after all. A little bit of good news can cheer us up in this gloomy atmosphere and give us hope that there is indeed a light at the end of the tunnel.
2,600 years on, we're stuck fast in a moral rut
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 02/08/2012
» Two thousand and six hundred years ago today, the Buddha gave his first sermon which was to become the cornerstone of Buddhist teachings: Avoid extremism, understand the reality of suffering, its nature and its cessation, and then follow the middle path of eight practices to free oneself of suffering.
Aligning the 'non-aligned'
News, Published on 27/08/2012
» Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul is off to Teheran today. He will represent Thailand at the 16th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will open the meeting tomorrow, and bask in a few days of often positive media coverage.
Romney makes smart pick
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 13/08/2012
» In the first hours after US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney picked a young politician as his candidate for vice-president, the choice clearly turned the campaign from the silly season to the election season.
Pivotal point for SE Asian democracy
News, Chayut Setboonsarng, Published on 02/07/2012
» The great philosophical question about the elements of a perfect democracy and their relation to capitalism remains unsettled, and is likely to stay so.