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    'Women's economics' goes mainstream

    Oped, Published on 10/11/2023

    » William Shakespeare's 1597 comedy Love's Labour's Lost tells the story of four Frenchmen as they navigate the tension between commitment to intellectual development and the quest for domestic bliss. Some four centuries later, Harvard economist Claudia Goldin reimagined the tale from the vantage point of American women balancing career and family. Now, Ms Goldin's profound insights into women's labour-market outcomes have won her a Nobel Prize in Economics.

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    Black marks for recycling

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 08/11/2023

    » Environmental justice finally prevailed for a community in Ratchaburi province that has suffered from the environmental impacts of garbage recycling for almost two decades.

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    Anwar Ibrahim's quiet triumph in Malaysia

    Oped, Published on 07/11/2023

    » The path from political prisoner to political power is by no means well-trodden, but those who have made the arduous journey in recent decades include luminaries such as Nelson Mandela, Jawaharlal Nehru, Aung San Suu Kyi, Michelle Bachelet, and Vaclav Havel. To this august group must be added Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who, after nine years in prison, is now showing the same zeal as Mandela did for institutional and economic reform rooted in democratic values.

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    Wake-up call for NBTC

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 03/11/2023

    » The Supreme Administrative Court's verdict on Monday is the latest bombshell to hit the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC). The higher court overruled a lower court decision to throw out a lawsuit filed by a consumer group against the telecom watchdog regarding the merger of True Corporation and Total Access Communication (DTAC).

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    Hamas hostage crisis bodes terror for the world

    News, Published on 28/10/2023

    » Hostage-taking, like collective punishment, is among the most barbaric but also oldest tactics in human warfare. And yet something qualitative changed on Oct 7, when Hamas went on its murderous rampage in Israel and abducted more than 200 innocent people into the Gaza Strip. What Hamas, Israel and others do in the coming days and weeks will set new precedents that may open a 10th circle of hell in this and other conflicts to come.

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    Crack down on scams now

    News, Editorial, Published on 23/10/2023

    » In yet another heartbreaking incident which showed the impact of fraud on our society, a 19-year-old student took her own life after falling victim to an online scam. After making a 20,000 baht down payment for an iPhone 13, she found herself ensnared in a web of lies spun by fraudsters.

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    Pheu Thai stuck in digital wallet trap

    Oped, Chairith Yonpiam, Published on 21/10/2023

    » The Pheu Thai Party is facing a Catch-22 situation over its controversial digital wallet scheme, which has drawn heavy criticism.

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    Fighting pork smugglers

    News, Editorial, Published on 20/10/2023

    » The government's crackdown on pork smugglers is good news, if not overdue. The unbridled smuggling of such a basic food ingredient violates the law, impairs the country's food hygiene standards, and undermines small-scale swine farms.

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    Slow progress for P-Move

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 19/10/2023

    » Almost two weeks after laying siege to Bangkok, the People's Movement for a Just Society (P-Move) has decided to end its protest as the Srettha Thavisin government has promised to consider its list of 10 demands.

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    Decree no longer a help

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 17/10/2023

    » Today, the cabinet will decide whether to renew the emergency decree for the deep southern provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat. The decision will show whether the Srettha government has the audacity to change a hitherto hard-line security policy in the region.

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