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Leaks aren't always good for politics or journalism
News, Published on 19/10/2016
» Editor's note: This column contains language that some readers may find offensive Both journalism and politics now live in the leak culture, and both professions will be forever changed by it. Both have always benefited from leaks of some kind, from the officially authorised to the criminally filched. But today's ability to download and disseminate vast banks of information constitutes a new chapter in journalistic and political practice. Wikileaks has put US diplomatic cables in the public domain, followed by the much riskier leaking of sensitive files from the National Security Agency and that followed by the leaking of the Panama Papers, which showed how the rich secretly contrive to get richer.
How long can Opec talk up oil prices?
Business, Published on 14/10/2016
» Not a day passes lately without Opec making oil and gas headlines. Seemingly in lockstep with Opec, the market is once again pacified on the promise that changes to the global oil supply glut are coming.
Washington pulling back from the world
News, Peter Apps, Published on 04/04/2016
» For many in the US, the attacks on Brussels must have felt like more of the same. Once again, militants struck, the systems designed to stop them failed and all the blood and treasure of 15 years of "war on terror" appear more wasted than ever.
Russia, despite drawdown, shipping more supplies
News, Published on 01/04/2016
» When Vladimir Putin announced the withdrawal of most of Russia's military contingent from Syria there was an expectation that the Yauza, a Russian naval icebreaker and one of the mission's main supply vessels, would return home to its Arctic Ocean port.
Urumqi flights begin quietly
Business, Published on 28/01/2016
» China Southern Airlines has established the first direct air link between Bangkok and Urumqi, the capital of China's Xinjiang region.
Rock loses hero as iconic singer David Bowie dies at 69
Published on 11/01/2016
» NEW YORK — David Bowie, the innovative and iconic singer whose illustrious career lasted five decades with hits like <em>Fame</em>, <em>Heroes</em> and <em>Let's Dance</em>, died Sunday after a battle with cancer. He was 69.
Capsule hotel planned at Don Mueang
Amornrat Mahitthirook, Published on 26/12/2015
» Bangkok's century-old Don Mueang airport will have a 20-room capsule hotel and Airports of Thailand Plc (AOT) is calling bids to find the operator.
Guarded hopefulness
Asia focus, Published on 16/11/2015
» John Micklethwait is a newspaper man seized by fear and hope for the future of journalism. To be sure, "newspaper man" is a bit of an anachronistic description for the new editor-in-chief at Bloomberg News, where no ink is spilled on paper. Across 325,000 Bloomberg terminals, headlines splash upon screens in seconds, bumping stale events much faster than one wraps fish with yesterday's page one.
Japan unveils $110bn plan to fund Asia infrastructure
Published on 21/05/2015
» TOKYO — Japan unveiled a plan on Thursday to provide US$110 billion (3.67 trillion baht) in aid for Asian infrastructure projects, as China prepares to launch a new institutional lender that is seen as encroaching on the regional financial clout of Tokyo and its ally Washington.
Rohingya issue puts Myanmar stability at risk
Published on 25/04/2015
» UNITED NATIONS — Stability in Myanmar's most sensitive region can't be achieved unless it addresses the issue of citizenship for minority Rohingya Muslims, the United Nations secretary-general warned its authorities Friday.