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New tech disrupts global order
Oped, Mark Blyth & Daniel Driscoll, Published on 18/11/2025
» News media tend to focus on the world's major powers because they command more resources by dint of their relatively larger economies, militaries and energy endowments. But there are costs to such dominance. For example, a single American Gerald R Ford-class aircraft carrier costs $13 billion (421.6 billion baht), while the F-35 fighter jet costs about $100 million. So, if you can build your military equipment for less than your opponent, you can gain a strategic advantage.
Wall Street risks shorting freedom in HK
Oped, Mark L Clifford, Published on 31/10/2025
» In early November, Wall Street's big guns will head to Hong Kong for a global financial summit, dining at the Palace Museum (featuring Chinese imperial works on loan from Beijing) before meeting at the nearby Rosewood Hotel -- one of the city's swankiest. There, the top brass from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and another 100 financial firms will enjoy delicious food and breathtaking views as Hong Kong's leaders pitch them on the profits to be made in the former British colony.
Terminal volunteers can save lives
News, Peter Singer & Benjamin L Sievers, Published on 13/09/2025
» At the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), a programme called Last Gift offers terminally ill patients the opportunity to help create more effective treatments. Their special circumstances transform the usual risk-benefit calculus of joining a clinical study of an untested drug. Researchers can ask them to consider consenting to being research participants in ways that they would not ask healthier people with long life expectancies, and terminally ill patients may choose to give that consent when others would be less likely to do so.
Israel's Gaza campaign is making it a pariah state
Oped, Thomas L Friedman, Published on 03/09/2025
» I will leave it to historians to debate whether Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip. But what is absolutely clear to me right now is that this Israeli government is committing suicide, homicide and fratricide.
KIA LINES UP NEW EVs AS CEO COMMITS TO CITY CAR
Life, MARK TISSHAW, Published on 07/07/2025
» The next wave of Kia EVs is being prepared for launch by the end of the decade, among them an entry-level model as well as a next-generation architecture that will underpin replacements for the likes of the EV6 and EV9.
UK signs up to help Mekong basin
News, Mark Gooding, Published on 21/06/2025
» Thailand is facing increasing risks from climate change -- as recent typhoons and flooding have shown.
Netflix tests new AI search engine to recommend shows, movies
Life, Lucas Shaw & Mark Gurman of Bloomberg, Published on 16/04/2025
» Netflix is testing new search technology for subscribers that employs artificial intelligence to help them find TV shows and movies, expanding its use of the technology.
LA fires reveal limits of California's utility fund
News, Mark Chediak & Eliyahu Kamisher, Published on 21/01/2025
» Financial losses from the devastating Los Angeles wildfires are mounting after the blazes incinerated entire neighbourhoods and destroyed thousands of homes. And now, investors are growing increasingly concerned that a US$21 billion (720 billion baht) state fund crafted to backstop utilities will fall far short of what's needed if companies are found liable.
The AI tipping point for banks
Business, Mark Micallef, Published on 13/01/2025
» Generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) is rapidly transforming the financial services landscape. What began with experimental projects in 2024 is now gaining serious momentum, with many institutions moving Gen AI into full-scale production and seeing tangible results from their investments.
Why is the US presidential race even close?
News, John Mark Hansen, Published on 04/11/2024
» I teach a course at the University of Chicago on elections, and I hear the same kind of question from friends on both the right and the left. The GOP cannot understand why Donald Trump is not far ahead in the polls, whereas the Democrats wonder how it can possibly be that Kamala Harris is not running away with the race.