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Property win-win
Oped, Postbag, Published on 02/05/2025
» Re: "Down with bad laws", (PostBag, April 27) & "Illicit foreign stakes in firms 'widespread'", (BP, April 25).
On the path to peace in Myanmar
Oped, Kasit Piromya, Published on 01/05/2025
» As Myanmar spirals further into civil war, Asean stands at a defining crossroads. The region cannot afford to remain passive while Myanmar's military junta intensifies its assaults under the guise of so-called "temporary ceasefires". These declarations are not peace -- they are pretexts. Airstrikes and scorched earth tactics continue with impunity, while international actors too often confuse propaganda with progress.
Protecting the rot
Oped, Postbag, Published on 18/02/2025
» Re: "Corruption still a problem", (Editorial, Feb 15).
Asean, in disarray, needs to recalibrate
Kasit Piromya, Published on 17/02/2025
» Since its inception in 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) has represented a story of success in regional cooperation among developing countries. Its founding nations of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand chose to support the free world and oppose communism, refuted the domino theory of communism's spread and positioned the region to emerge from the Cold War era intact, enriched and self-confident.
China acting out of order
Postbag, Published on 27/10/2024
» Re: "Middle Kingdom and 'boomerang effect'", (Opinion, Oct 25).
Middle Kingdom and 'boomerang effect'
Oped, Kasit Piromya, Published on 25/10/2024
» President Xi Jinping, on the eve of assuming the supreme leadership of China, came forward with the notion that China, the Middle Kingdom, lost its grandeur and supremacy in the middle of the 19th century to Western influence and encroachment, as well as the Japanese and island kingdoms that essentially acted as imperial Western powers inflicting military defeats against the massive but inadequate Chinese forces.
China: Benefactor or imperial menace?
Oped, Kasit Piromya, Published on 06/09/2024
» Since the start of the 21st century, China has shown its desire to recapture its previous position as the world's most powerful and influential nation. Centuries ago, China -- going by the name of the "Middle Kingdom" -- was the world's most influential nation until Western European countries arrived on the shores of the Chinese empire in the early 16th century.
Whimper of woe
Oped, Postbag, Published on 27/06/2024
» Re: "Job reminder for the 'permanent five'", (Opinion, June 26). Kasit Piromya commendably outlines the deep crisis of a polarised world today.
Job reminder for the 'permanent five'
Oped, Kasit Piromya, Published on 26/06/2024
» Upon the victorious end to World War II for the Allied forces, the five victors -- namely the United States, the Soviet Union (later the Russian Federation), China (the nationalist government and later the communist government), the United Kingdom, and France -- drafted the Charter of the United Nations and established the Headquarters of the UN in New York City based on the generosity of the United States government and people.
A wrong approach on Myanmar
Oped, Kasit Piromya, Published on 09/02/2024
» Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara, recently spoke at the World Economic Forum on the current situation in Myanmar and the region's response, with the speech being then printed in this newspaper.