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  • WORLD

    Subdued defiance as Navalny laid to rest

    Published on 01/03/2024

    » MOSCOW - Standing under grey skies holding red and white bouquets, Russians queued patiently along pavements leading towards opposition politician Alexei Navalny’s funeral on Friday, two weeks after his death in a Siberian penal colony.

  • GENERAL

    Yip In Tsoi outlines raft of ambitious plans

    Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 01/03/2024

    » Yip In Tsoi, a leading system integrator, will focus on a new business growth area this year that includes cybersecurity, data analytics, business transformation, and cloud and infrastructure services to ride on the wave of an emerging fifth industrial revolution.

  • OPINION

    Myanmar as interim 'non-state' state

    Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 01/03/2024

    » Myanmar, also known as Burma, has become a de facto state that is dominated by non-state entities. Contrary to facile claims, Myanmar is not a failed state like some that beset parts of Africa and the Middle East. The ethnically diverse country of 55 million still functions despite widespread violence in an ongoing civil war. Unless and until Myanmar is understood and re-conceptualised as an interim state comprising non-state entities, it will be difficult to move forward to remake and reconstitute a new country after the civil war and the passing of the military junta that seized power on Feb 1, 2021, led by Senior General Min Aung Hlaing.

  • OPINION

    How the United States' CHIPS Act hurts Taiwan

    Oped, Published on 01/03/2024

    » The concentration of advanced semiconductor manufacturing in Taiwan has raised fears in the United States about the vulnerability of this supply chain should China blockade or invade the island. The US CHIPS and Science Act seeks to address that vulnerability with $52 billion (1.86 trillion baht) in subsidies to encourage semiconductor manufacturers to relocate to America. But the legislation, as designed, will fall short of its objective; it may even weaken Taiwan's most important industry, further threatening the island's security.

  • TECH

    NFTs attempt a comeback

    Published on 27/02/2024

    » NFTs — which went from being touted as the cutting edge of the digital frontier to the punchline for the most recent crypto bust — are suddenly staging an unlikely comeback.

  • OPINION

    A tale of nickel and copper

    News, David Fickling, Published on 23/02/2024

    » The world's biggest miner, BHP Group Ltd, grew powerful by building dominant positions in producing the minerals of the future. That makes the challenges it's facing with two key clean-tech ingredients a sobering lesson for the energy transition.

  • OPINION

    The toxic legacy left by the Green Revolution

    Oped, Published on 15/02/2024

    » There are more than 390,000 identified plant species in the world, but just three -- rice, maize, and wheat -- account for roughly 60% of the plant-based calories in our diets. The dominance of these three grains is largely the result of major technological breakthroughs, particularly the development of high-yielding varieties (HYVs) of rice and wheat during the Green Revolution of the 1960s.

  • GENERAL

    Tapping a vast market

    Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 12/02/2024

    » The restoration of diplomatic relations between Thailand and Saudi Arabia in 2022 following a 30-year break has created new opportunities for Thailand to tap into demand for its halal products in Middle Eastern markets.

  • LIFE

    Solar solutions

    Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 12/02/2024

    » Four years ago, Boonyuen Siritham, president of the Thailand Consumers Council (TCC), paid around 17,000 baht to 18,000 baht monthly in petrol and electricity bills. As an environmentalist, she aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cut her expenses so she decided to install a solar rooftop and switched to an electric car. Since then, she pays only 2,500 baht per month for electricity.

  • OPINION

    A 14th Century warning for fans of 21st Century demagogues

    Published on 11/02/2024

    » A history student told me recently that he loves researching the 20th Century but can’t see the point of the Middle Ages. I responded that it can be a big help to understanding our own times — very troubled times — to view them in the context even of the remote past.

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