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Debt plan spooks pundits
News, Apinya Wipatayotin and Somruedi Banchongduang, Published on 20/03/2025
» Academics warned the government on Wednesday about implementing former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's proposal to address household debt, saying it may not solve the underlying issue and could even backfire.
Royal Thai Air Force to pitch new jet procurement plan
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 15/03/2024
» The Royal Thai Air Force is looking to procure either Swedish-built Gripen E-series or US-made F-16 Block 70 fighter jets starting later this year, according to ACM Phanpakdee Pattanakul, the RTAF chief.
Fun attire for some, pain for others
News, Apichin Chitviriyakul, Published on 12/03/2023
» Netizens are divided over whether Chinese tourists should wear student uniforms. Some claim foreigners want to wear them like cosplay and they are just tourists trying to enjoy themselves.
Nakorn says not joining Covax wasn't a mistake
News, Post Reporters, Published on 24/07/2021
» Nakorn Premsri, director of the National Vaccine Institute (NVI), has insisted that it was not a mistake for Thailand to skip joining the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (Covax) programme when it was first introduced.
Capital markets see rules change
News, Faith Stevelman & Sarah C Haan, Published on 08/02/2021
» Late last month, a social-media-fuelled populist rebellion gripped capital markets. Retail investors purchased huge amounts of stock in struggling companies like GameStop, AMC, and BlackBerry (among others). They wanted to make a buck. But, even more than that, they wanted to punish the financial elites, like hedge funds, that had been betting on the companies' decline.
Globalising the Covid vaccine with WHO's Covax
News, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Published on 07/01/2021
» The development and approval of safe and effective Covid-19 vaccines less than a year after the start of the pandemic is a truly remarkable achievement, offering hope that the end of this crisis may be in sight. What will follow in the coming months -- or even weeks -- will be equally remarkable: Covid-19 vaccines will be made available to people around the world -- not just in the wealthiest countries -- at roughly the same time.
The sorry plight of the bumblebee
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 29/03/2020
» A welcome distraction from the Coronavirus crisis came this week from a most unlikely source. Over the wall at the back of my Bangkok abode there is a drainage ditch which also hosts a couple of trees providing welcome shade for the rear of the house. On Thursday my wife summoned me to the back of the house. She pointed at one of the trees in animated fashion -- all I could see was leaves.
If lost for words, you can try a bit of Latin
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 13/10/2019
» In the sometimes entertaining, but often mind-numbing, impeachment debate in the US, something we have been repeatedly hearing lately is the Latin expression "quid pro quo", signifying a favour given in return for something of equal value. Dropping a few Latin words has always been popular amongst politicians, possibly because they think it makes them sound smarter than us ignorant hoi polloi.
Beware the online culture warriors
News, John Lloyd, Published on 22/10/2018
» The news media in the Western world remains dominated by newspapers, magazines and broadcasters still known as the mainstream. The most vivid proof of their continued reign over public opinion is in the figure of US President Donald Trump, whose repeated attacks on "failing" publications like The New York Times and the Washington Post as "enemies of the people" is a backhanded tribute to their continued power.