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  • OPINION

    Abusive teachers do not belong

    News, Editorial, Published on 04/09/2022

    » Last month, a teacher at a school in Bangkok's Thung Khru district ordered a teenage student to kneel on the floor, then kicked the boy in the chest and hit his head several times. It was a punishment for playing football in a school building.

  • OPINION

    US CHIPS off the Chinese block

    Oped, Published on 23/08/2022

    » Semiconductors, one of the most important innovations of the last century, are now crucial inputs in mobile phones, personal computers, educational technologies, vehicles, heavy machinery, medical instruments, military equipment and much more.

  • OPINION

    Civic study can help make solid citizens

    News, Published on 08/08/2022

    » In 2004, the United Nations declared that Civic Education For All was a resolution for the new millennium and a mandate for the United Nations Development Programme. The initiative was focused on nurturing respect for all, building a sense of belonging in humanity and helping learners become responsible and active global citizens.

  • OPINION

    Uproot graft to clip trafficking

    News, Editorial, Published on 19/06/2022

    » The news about 59 Rohingya "abandoned" near southernmost Satun province early this month reminds us that fighting the heinous crime of human trafficking will be a hard-won battle.

  • OPINION

    Getting tough on PM2.5

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 25/03/2022

    » This past week has seen two events linked to attempts to solve the problem of PM2.5 fine dust particles. Wednesday marked the opening of the National Environment Information Centre (NEIC), a 200-million-baht big data analytics centre related to air and dust particle problems.

  • OPINION

    One year post-coup: Light ahead after darkness?

    Oped, Published on 05/02/2022

    » On 1 Feb 2021, the dreams of many people in Burma (Myanmar) were shattered overnight. Since then, I, along with everyone else in my country of over 55 million people, have been living in darkness.

  • OPINION

    Mega-merger risks Thai digital future

    Oped, Pavida Pananond, Published on 26/11/2021

    » The Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group is on the move again to swell further in size, weight and power over the market. Having recently acquired Tesco's operations when the British retailer sold out and exited Thailand and Malaysia, CP is now aiming to consolidate its grip on the telecommunications industry in a planned merger between its True Corporation and Total Access Communications (DTAC), the local subsidiary of Norway's Telenor. If successful, the merger would reduce Thailand's major telecom players from three to two and further concentrate market dominance over the telecom market to the detriment of consumer choice and welfare.

  • OPINION

    Cities need to be smart

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 04/11/2021

    » So-called smart cities have become aspirational for governments around the world and the government has been among them with its 12th National Economic and Social Development Plan (2017-2021).

  • OPINION

    Vax donors, big and small, pitch in

    Oped, Published on 26/08/2021

    » Mai Nguyen, a 27-year-old English teacher, transferred money not once, but thrice, into Vietnam's Covid-19 vaccination fund, through which the Southeast Asian country has been collecting donations in an all-out campaign to speed up the pace of inoculation amid the pandemic's most severe outbreak to date.

  • OPINION

    Resilience in a riskier Asia-Pacific

    Oped, Published on 19/08/2021

    » Over the past two decades, the Asia-Pacific region has made remarkable progress in managing disaster risk. But countries can never let down their guard. The Covid-19 pandemic, with its epicentre now in Asia, and all its tragic consequences, has exposed the frailties of human societies in the face of powerful natural forces.

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