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Carter's wisdom
Oped, Postbag, Published on 01/01/2025
» Re: "Jimmy Carter: president, global mediator, Nobel laureate", (World, Dec 30).
Service a must to drive THAI forward
Oped, Saritdet Marukatat, Published on 14/03/2024
» A passenger on a flight TG652 had to ask crew members twice for a sandwich and Coke after waking up from a short sleep which made him miss the inflight service. When one of the attendants handed him the snack, he asked her again for Coke. The cabin staff looked annoyed and told him that he should have told her from the beginning that he wanted both so that she could have done it in one trip instead of two.
World in crisis needs trade, aid
Oped, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Rebeca Grynspan and Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Published on 28/07/2022
» We are in the toughest period the world economy has faced since the creation of the multilateral system more than three-quarters of a century ago. A quadruple shock of Covid, climate change, conflict and cost-of-living has undone years of hard-fought development gains. As financial conditions tighten, even countries that had seemed on track to prosperity and stability now stare into the abyss of debt distress, fragility and uncertainty about the future.
Mandalay and other magical places
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 11/04/2021
» Thanks to many readers who came up with their own memories in response to last week's column about places that sounded quite magical as a kid. Mandalay and Kathmandu were definitely the front-runners at grabbing children's imaginations in the old days.
16th century energy revolution can help fossil fuels exit
News, Roland Ennos, Published on 13/03/2021
» As we contemplate the problems of fossil fuels and climate change, we might look to the 16th and 17th centuries, when people broke free from dependence on our original energy source -- wood--and started burning our first fossil fuel -- coal -- instead.
End plastic waste trade for a healthier future
News, Inger Andersen & Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Published on 09/11/2020
» New trade deals heighten fears that countries in Africa and small island developing states may become the world's next dumping ground for plastic waste. Trade agreements cannot ignore environmental commitments.
History repeats itself
Oped, Postbag, Published on 05/06/2020
» It has often been said that those who do not study history are doomed to repeat mistakes of the past. Well, it seems that Samanea Saman's June 4 letter "Free the market", goes to prove that point. The writer pointed out that whilst the Thai government did have good intentions in installing a protectionist egg export policy, the actual results two months later are a depressed market, supply chain problems and even more cries for government intervention -- ie more debt.
Blasting the plastic
News, Postbag, Published on 26/11/2019
» Sirinya Wattanasukchai, in her Nov 22 commentary, "Food apps trade convenience for plastic waste", drove home another way we are drowning ourselves in a plastic sea -- by using food apps.
The farthest fall
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 14/07/2019
» I once attended a birthday party at a house in Soi Ari where I was introduced to a middle-aged man with a rotating jaw.
Corruption endemic
News, Postbag, Published on 08/06/2019
» In my 30-plus years in Thailand, it has become quite obvious that corruption in its various forms has had a disastrous effect on the country through the failure of its institutions. Look up the effect of corruption on Google and immediately you will find that politicians, police and the judiciary are the institutions named as most affected. I have watched with disbelief as politicians, wealthy individuals and military leaders have broken laws, engaged in illegal activities and even caused deaths without any repercussions for their actions.