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The real problem with free trade
News, Published on 14/09/2018
» For most critics of globalisation, trade is the villain, responsible for deepening inequality and rising economic insecurity among workers. This is the logic driving support for US President Donald Trump's escalating tariffs. Why, then, does the message resonate far beyond the United States, and even the advanced economies, to include workers in many of the developing countries that are typically portrayed as globalisation's main beneficiaries?
Why the North Korean status quo isn't an option
News, Published on 14/09/2018
» Barely three months after they met in Singapore, President Donald Trump says he's happy to sit down again with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. One might justifiably ask why, given how little the North has conceded since their last tete-a-tete. There is room to make tangible progress, however, if the US first rethinks its negotiating strategy.
Students must beat machines
News, Editorial, Published on 14/09/2018
» As he painted a bleak picture on Tuesday about how rising automation would affect Thai graduates in the future job market, Deputy Education Minister Udom Kachinthorn failed to illustrate a clearly mapped out plan to help them not only survive the onslaught but succeed in the age of technological disruption -- if the ministry has formulated one at all.
THAI losing altitude
News, Postbag, Published on 14/09/2018
» Re:" Superboard gives nod to THAI's jet purchase plan," (BP, Sept 13).
Monumental matters need city to clue in
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 14/09/2018
» I must confess that I am bemused over the question concerning the legal ownership of Victory Monument raised by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA).
Xi's 'Silicon Valley' faces hurdles
News, Published on 17/09/2018
» Build it and they will come. Maybe.
Why Macron's 'third way' is now the EU's best option
News, John Lloyd, Published on 17/09/2018
» The largest question in democratic politics in Europe is: who's in charge?
Economic slavery
News, Postbag, Published on 17/09/2018
» Re: "Regime takes credit for helping people fight debt", (BP, Sept 11).
Reducing buses won't ease traffic woes
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 17/09/2018
» When I saw a news headline last week, saying the number of Bangkok public buses may be reduced to solve the city's traffic woes in the Ramkhamhaeng area, I thought it was just more click bait.
Time to lift rights bans
News, Editorial, Published on 17/09/2018
» The best thing that can be said about last week's action by the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) is that the all-male group understands it has created a problem. It has returned to the public a tiny bit of the civil and human rights it removed 52 months ago. On Friday, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha used his extraordinary powers under Section 44 to give some small but important freedoms to political parties. While the order restores the right to organise party affairs, it falls lamentably short of restoring basic and constitutional rights to all Thais.