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Maintaining what's left of rules-based order
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 20/07/2018
» For anyone who is alive today, the world as we know it has never been so stirred and shaken. The international order based on a common set of institutions, rules and norms that used to be widely cherished and universally beneficial is unravelling before our collective and helpless eyes. From an emerging United States-China trade war and Beijing's militarised occupation of the South China Sea to Russia's revanchist annexation of Crimea, world order over the past several years has been breaking down. Those who once set the rules, principally the US, are breaking them, while aspiring new rule-setters, mainly China, have not found sufficient international reception. Rule-takers, such as the smaller states in Asean, suffer the most when set rules lose cohesion, lustre and abidance.
Trans fat ban will save lives
News, Editorial, Published on 20/07/2018
» In six months' time, Thai consumers are to be protected from bad food ingredients known as trans fats.
Trade deals putting health at risk
News, Published on 20/07/2018
» The 23rd round of negotiations on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement taking place this and next week in Bangkok -- between 10 Asean countries and their trading partners: Korea, Japan, China, India, Australia and New Zealand -- include talks on an intellectual property rights chapter which directly impacts access to affordable medicines.
Lessons from the Klong Dan court ruling
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 20/07/2018
» Last Friday the 13th must have been horrible for the 11 defendants involved in a court case involving fraud in the 23-billion-baht Klong Dan wastewater treatment project -- a state infrastructure which has been built but left largely unused in Samut Prakan.
No debt to society
News, Postbag, Published on 20/07/2018
» Re: "Boys owe a debt," (PostBag, July 19).
For the Love of Costumes
Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 20/07/2018
» A Thai beauty pageant can be captivating for several reasons, the beauties themselves, the obvious nose contouring, the contestants introducing themselves and the province which they represent in a high-pitched voice at the end -- just to name a few.