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    SUNDAY Spotlight debuts today

    News, Published on 02/08/2020

    » The <i>Bangkok Post</i> launches a new weekly section with today's Sunday newspaper, featuring curated articles from <i>The New York Times</i>.

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    A just post-pandemic transition

    Oped, Published on 24/07/2020

    » It will take time for Covid-19's economic consequences to come into full view. But some of the costs are already becoming apparent, beginning with the devastation the crisis will wreak on the global workforce. With climate change also threatening to hurt the world's most vulnerable workers, the need for a holistic crisis response that emphasises both justice and sustainability could not be greater.

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    Football films can be a mixed bag

    Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 09/05/2020

    » Last week I watched on TV a couple of half-decent films on American sports -- Moneyball (2011) starring Brad Pitt as a baseball manager and Any Given Sunday (1999) with Al Pacino as coach of an underperforming American gridiron team.

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    Together at home

    Guru, Eric E Surbano, Published on 27/03/2020

    » Staying home, barely going out, staying in your PJs for the majority of the day, taking them off to shower some time in the afternoon only to change into fresh cleaner PJs -- welcome to the new normal. I forgot to mention the part where you work from home but let's be honest, are you really working from home or did you just breeze past one season of a TV show you're now re-watching for the fourth time? Nevertheless, we all seem to be confined to our homes for the foreseeable future. You may be the introvert of introverts but even you may get bored and stir-crazy being stuck in one place for a long time. Here are a number of things to give some levity to your lockdown.

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    Too early to tell

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 31/03/2020

    » Re: "Who believes the stats?" (PostBag, March 29).

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    Growth forecast cut, Iran cases surge by 50%: Virus update

    Published on 02/03/2020

    » Iran reported a 50% increase in coronavirus infections, while New York City, Brussels, Berlin and Indonesia all reported their first cases. New cases were reported in Thailand and across the US. Hard-hit South Korea saw its total climb past 4,200.

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    The key to breathing easy

    Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 28/01/2020

    » First, the number of coronavirus-infected cases in China was only 27 when first reported at the end of December. Then, only three days later, the number rose to 44, before hitting 59 two days after that.

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    Warren Buffett gives up on newspaper business

    Business, Published on 31/01/2020

    » Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc agreed on Wednesday to sell its newspaper business to Lee Enterprises Inc for $140 million in cash, abandoning an industry the billionaire investor had long defended even as its financial prospects deteriorated.

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    David attenborough is back, And he brought the walruses

    Life, Published on 24/01/2020

    » Listing the nature programmes narrated, and sometimes written and produced, by the extremely industrious David Attenborough would take about all the space I have here. Just listing the major ones -- the Frozen Planets, the Blue Planets, the Planet Earths -- would be a stretch. Within the last year, he's added 15 more hours with the highly praised Our Planet for Netflix and now Seven Worlds, One Planet.

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    Virus losses put at B1.3tn

    Business, Published on 31/01/2020

    » Economic damage from the coronavirus outbreak is initially estimated at 300 billion yuan (1.3 trillion baht) in a month's time, putting China's annual GDP growth below the 6% baseline this year, says Kasikorn Research Centre (K-Research).

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