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Forget New Year gifts, we want real reform
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 22/12/2017
» As the year draws to a close, it has become a tradition that the Prayut Chan-o-cha government prepares New Year's gifts for the people. Maybe the prime minister really wants the people to be happy, but many see it as a desperate effort to boost the regime's popularity.
The trickle-down effect in Thailand
News, Published on 27/12/2017
» This year, the Thai economy is growing at a faster rate than any expert predicted. This year's growth rate which was initially projected at around 3.4% is now growing at a rate close to 3.9%. A 0.5% difference for a country with an economy size of around US$400 billion is quite significant in improving the lives of its people.
Credibility of NACC on line
News, Editorial, Published on 09/12/2017
» The stakes are high and the public has high expectations for the anti-graft agency's probe into how Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon acquired a luxury watch and expensive diamond ring and whether he concealed those items in previous asset declarations.
Gaffe-prone govt writing own finale
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 12/12/2017
» How many let-them-eat-cake moments do you think the military regime can suffer from before it arrives at an emperor-wears-no-clothes finale?
About politics
News, Published on 09/12/2017
» Sceptics see 'arms cache' as another ruse to delay the election v Thaksin's son claims clan are done with politics but uncle still galvanising the Pheu Thai Party v Pundits believe fraternal bonds played a key role in saving interior minister's neck
Cities must step up to reach climate accord
News, Published on 24/11/2017
» One highlight from last week's United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, was an announcement from the Syrian delegate that Damascus will ratify the Paris Agreement.
Grand plans mean little to the poor
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 21/11/2017
» If the government is not suffering from irrational exuberance, then something must have gone amiss. For it's bothersome to see Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak declare there will be no poor people in Thailand next year, only to be met with the scathing response: "Of course, all the poor will have died by then."
African economic growth rides on wireless rails
News, Published on 14/11/2017
» In Kenya, hundreds of thousands of people are rising out of poverty as mobile-money services turn subsistence farmers into business people. A similar dynamic drives Ethiopia, the fastest-growing economy in Africa, where the gross domestic product is forecast to climb 8% in 2019. Borrowing costs in Ghana plummeted almost 2.5 percentage points during the past 12 months amid an unprecedented gain in GDP that's been led by the growth of the telecom industry.
Cooler heads needed to end wildlife woes
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 16/11/2017
» Following media reports about the killings of three rare, wild gaur in Kao Phang Ma, a forest area near Khao Yai in Wang Nam Khieo district of Nakhon Ratchasima last week, police and national park officials were quick to say poachers were the culprits.
Healthcare woes never too big to solve
News, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 23/11/2017
» Anyone who has never had to admit or nurse a loved one at state hospitals in the provinces cannot really understand what it feels like to be in such crowded and cramped state medical facilities.