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Q&A: Thai edition
Guru, Sumati Sivasiamphai, Published on 13/12/2013
» Here are some common queries posed to Thais (with appropriate responses to use at your discretion):
Advanced malaise hurts US workers
News, Published on 09/01/2014
» Economics is often called the dismal science, and for the last half-decade it has come by its reputation honestly in the advanced economies. Unfortunately, the year ahead will bring little relief.
Foreign aid sure makes us feel good
News, Published on 10/01/2014
» The huge gap between the world's richest and poorest countries remains one of the great moral dilemmas for the West. It also presents one of the greatest challenges for development economics. Do we really know how to help countries overcome poverty?
The roots of global democratic malaise
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 14/01/2014
» The early 21st century is harbouring an alarming trend in emerging democracies. As political liberalisation and democratisation make headway, they have ended up polarising and splitting societies undergoing democratic transitions. This trend is likely to dominate the developing world for the next two decades and beyond.
How to beat Thaksin regime at the polls
News, Published on 27/01/2014
» Bangkok residents, calm and peaceful but a few months ago, have been jolted into massive protests, larger even than those that led to the ousting of Thaksin Shinawatra in 2006. There is talk of a coup, of installing an appointed prime minister, of rewinding democracy by 80 years. Bangkok is being shut down, and the Democrat Party is boycotting the general election.
Yingluck out of line
News, Published on 15/02/2014
» Caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is busily trying to shut down the flow of funds going to the protesters — but I don’t see any legal basis for this, nor is it practical.
Don’t hate the player — hate the game
Life, Napamon Roongwitoo, Published on 20/02/2014
» It is funny how either Thaksin or Suthep is blamed for virtually everything today. Recently, when the lights went out momentarily in my community, one of my neighbours cursed: “Thaksin is behind this. What an evil man, making people suffer like this!” When stuck in the usual traffic in front of a mall a few weeks back, the taxi driver complained: “Damn those protestors. Suthep is making us all suffer! He’s behind everything!”
Thailand’s potential grand realignment
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 21/02/2014
» As caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra comes under mounting pressure from the gathering forces arrayed against her self-exiled and convicted brother, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, something will soon have to give. Thailand’s prolonged political standoff has crippled Bangkok’s central business district and placed Thailand in an economic free fall. At issue going forward is how much longer Ms Yingluck will last, how she is dislodged, what comes after, and whether a grand realignment takes place to marginalise Thaksin and move Thailand beyond him.
I could have been the Thai Serena
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 24/02/2014
» A friend of mine has just enrolled his two children into IMG Academy — the prep school in the US that pairs “elite academics” with “world-class athletics”.
The case for a gender-smart workplace
News, Published on 08/03/2014
» The Asia-Pacific region has made great strides in female participation in the workforce over the past few decades. But while rising numbers of women are entering the job market, there is a high turnover of female staff and only a handful of women are crashing through the glass ceiling.