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China and fulcrum of peace, security
News, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 12/09/2024
» How sanguine should the international observer be towards the relationship between China, peace and security? While the country's integration into the international commercial system via the World Trade Organization has opened the door to rules-based discourse and a multilateral dispute settlement system, despite major commercial rivalries, the domain of peace and security presents a more precarious and ambivalent affair. Yet, here again, there is variability in that relationship, which militates against too broad of a generalisation.
Time for panda rethink
Oped, Editorial, Published on 02/02/2024
» Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin was thrilled that his request for another panda was well received by Beijing. It's understood the animal will be leased like its predecessors, Lin Hui and Xuang Xuang, formerly the star attractions of Chiang Mai Zoo. The duo arrived in Thailand in 2003, triggering "panda fever" in the tropical country. More than 7.4 million people visited the zoo over the course of 19 years, from 2003 to 2022.
Panda woe Number One
News, Postbag, Published on 23/04/2023
» Re: "Giant panda Lin Hui dies in Chiang Mai", (BP, April 20).
Handout pros
Oped, Postbag, Published on 22/04/2023
» Re: "Pheu Thai's giveaway might just work", (Opinion, April 20).
Apec needed now more than ever
News, Damien O'Connor, Published on 01/11/2021
» Many people might be unfamiliar with the work the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum does, but those four letters represent an economic and trade powerhouse that affects all our lives, from the price of a new car, to promoting renewable energy.
For Xi and Evergrande, a delicate balancing act
News, Andrew Galbraith, Reuters, Published on 25/09/2021
» The crisis at property giant China Evergrande Group poses a US$305 billion (10 trillion baht) conundrum for President Xi Jinping: how to impose financial discipline without fuelling social unrest.
Covid-19 and the structural crises of our time
Oped, Lim Mah Hui & Michael Heng Siam-Heng, Published on 07/09/2021
» The Covid-19 pandemic devastating as it is not simply a health crisis. It is the product of an interlocking web of diverse problems that have been building up over time. Given the structural nature of this crisis, even as the embers of the immediate fire of infections and deaths burn out, the fallout from the conflagration will continue, taking different forms in its wake, including the rise of yet another pandemic.
'Battle royal' headlines local polls
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 21/12/2020
» Against the backdrop of the Covid-19 outbreak in Samut Sakhon, people in the province and in other provinces, with the exception of Bangkok, went to the polls yesterday to elect chairpersons and Provincial Administration Organisation (PAO) members.
Pheu Thai must fix internal rifts
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 13/01/2020
» 'Cobras", a term referring to Thai MPs who usually vote in parliament against their party line, reared their ugly heads and hissed on Saturday night during the vote on the government's 3.2-trillion-baht-budget bill for the 2020 fiscal year.
Karma will haunt corrupt until the end
News, Chairith Yonpiam, Published on 14/09/2019
» The sight of former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom head down, listening to the Supreme Court ruling on his role in the fake government-to-government (G2G) rice deals contrasted sharply with that of the merriment of his former boss, Yingluck Shinawatra, sharing a sumptuous meal with her brother and fugitive former prime minister, Thaksin, and his youngest daughter.