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Tinted screens
Oped, Postbag, Published on 05/03/2026
» Re: "We don't need Seven Dangerous Days", (Opinion, Feb 27).
COP30 must be more focused on human welfare
Oped, Bjorn Lomborg, Published on 13/11/2025
» With the United Nations climate summit, COP30, now in full swing in the humid jungle city of Belém, Brazil, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has cut through the noise with a blunt truth: these UN climate gatherings must zero in on lifting human lives, rather than fixating solely on slashing emissions or dialling down global temperatures. It's a perspective that's long overdue yet seems so obvious.
Measuring the economic impact of AI
Oped, Diane Coyle, Published on 24/10/2025
» Is AI transforming the economy in any real sense, or is the promise of rapid growth mere hype?
Can the 30-baht health scheme survive?
Oped, Philip J Cunningham, Published on 19/06/2025
» I recently met Dr Jadej Thammatacharee, secretary-general of the National Health Security Office (NHSO), at the home of a mutual friend to ask questions, of which I had many, about the so-called 30-baht scheme -- also known as the "gold card" scheme.
A diplomatic do-do
Oped, Postbag, Published on 02/06/2025
» Re: 'Thailand's false sense of tariff security,' (Opinion, May 30).
Will the United Nations survive Trump 2.0?
Oped, Jayati Ghosh, Published on 22/03/2025
» Of all the geopolitical stunts Donald Trump has pulled since returning to the White House, the United States' votes at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on March 4 stand out as some of the most revealing.
Uyghur atonement
Oped, Editorial, Published on 24/01/2025
» The surprise statement by new US Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging Thailand not to deport 40-plus Uyghurs who are currently being detained in Thailand to China has shone a much-needed spotlight on these illegal entrants.
Net the big crooks
Oped, Postbag, Published on 08/01/2025
» Re: "Cop course for Chinese investigated", (BP, Jan 4).
Less is more in restoring Asia's past
Oped, Jeff Allen & Waraporn Suwatchotikul, Published on 01/08/2024
» For decades, restorations of Southeast Asia's archaeological sites have typically involved transforming the past rather than faithfully presenting it. Conservationists often take a heavy-handed approach, embellishing a site to effectively "manufacture" a ruin that will appeal to visitors. But this tends to do more harm than good.
The hazard of lower interest rates
Oped, Dambisa Moyo, Published on 20/06/2024
» When interest rates decline and stabilise, financial-market participants tend to take on greater leverage and risk. The challenge for regulators, then, is to prevent those risks from becoming systemic and causing a broader economic crisis.