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  • BUSINESS

    Creating Asean's interconnected energy future

    Asia focus, Published on 04/07/2022

    » A comprehensive interconnection of Southeast Asia's power grid has been a long-held dream, first emerging into serious discourse in the 1980s. Now, almost four decades later, we might finally be approaching a moment when the pressure for climate action moves this idea towards a more established reality.

  • OPINION

    Vinland history: a question of dates, timing

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 28/11/2022

    » 'If the 20th century AD were dated at the same resolution as the 20th century BC, the two World Wars would be indistinguishable in time; and the Montgomery Bus Strike might post-date the release of Mandela." So wrote the Exact Chronology of Early Societies' (ECHOES) team of palaeohistorians at Groningen University in the northern Netherlands -- and then they fixed the problem.

  • BUSINESS

    Jay Mart rebrands amid breakneck growth

    Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 29/10/2022

    » Starting with a single retail shop selling electrical appliances 32 years ago, Jay Mart has become a listed holding conglomerate engaged in retail IT, finance and technology, with business partnerships set to expand in order to foster synergy and drive growth.

  • OPINION

    When the environment gets sidelined

    Oped, Johanna Son, Published on 23/07/2022

    » Myanmar's human, social and natural capital have been "rapidly diminishing" after the 2021 military coup, explains Win Myo Thu, a respected environmental campaigner who, for over three decades, has been working with local communities for better access to land, forest, water, food and a clean environment.

  • WORLD

    Coping with vast open space and sheep

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 09/10/2022

    » The baas, bleats and bells were fading ever so slightly, and the shepherd's trained ear detected that his flock was veering off the path home, for this was the soundtrack of his life in the Rocky Mountains. "The sheep must be herded," he said in Spanish, as he quickly ascended a hill overlooking a meadow.

  • TRAVEL

    Into the sea

    Life, Pattarawadee Saengmanee, Published on 28/07/2022

    » As the plane continued its flight to the southern town of Trang, my travel companions and I learned that there was a 70% probability of rain during our trip, so we didn't anticipate spending time on the beach tanning. But as we landed and all we could see was a brilliant blue sky gleaming over the Andaman Sea, it seemed like we had struck lucky.

  • OPINION

    Arresting colours

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 29/07/2022

    » Re: "RTP baffled by pot memo", (BP, July 28).

  • TECH

    Beware of TikTok snooping on your phone's data

    Life, James Hein, Published on 02/03/2022

    » If you didn't already know, TikTok is potentially dangerous. The app bypasses both Apple and Google protections and is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. According to reports, the app passes all your data back to servers in China, including unposted information and the contents of your phone. The app also has many security vulnerabilities allowing hackers to take over your phone. This is in addition to the expansion of your digital footprint across the planet. In China, people are rewarded for posting serious videos like those showing them using a chemistry set. Those outside China are rewarded for the dumbest presentations. I'll let the readers work this last one out for themselves.

  • WORLD

    Movie from tiny Bhutan gets an Oscar nod

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 27/02/2022

    » As a crew of 35 people prepared to make a movie in Bhutan's remote Lunana Valley, they faced a slew of seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

  • REVIEW

    The war horse

    Life, Jedd Sreshthaputra, Published on 30/05/2022

    » I have been testing a few electric scooters and motorcycles over the past year and admit that the Chetak e-scooter from Bajaj's Urbanite sub-brand is surprisingly well-made.

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