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Brothers' trial puts focus on 'Wild West of crypto'
News, Miles J Herszenhorn, Published on 18/10/2025
» Two brothers, both recent Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduates, are going on trial this week in a case that promises to shed light on a secretive and controversial cryptocurrency trading strategy.
The world really needs a techno-realist manifesto
News, Nicholas Agar & Stuart Whatley, Published on 04/12/2024
» 'It's actually going to be easy to cure ageing and cancer," insists David Sinclair, a researcher on ageing at Harvard University. Similarly, Elon Musk continues to claim that he will soon land humans on Mars and deploy robotaxis en masse. Major corporations have set carbon-neutrality targets based on highly optimistic forecasts about the potential of carbon-removal technologies. And, of course, many commentators now insist that "AI changes everything".
The dark side of neutrality when it comes to war
News, Slavoj Žižek, Published on 20/02/2023
» Last May, before being newly re-elected as president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva claimed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, bear equal responsibility for the war in Ukraine. Yet whether the refusal to pick sides comes from Brazil, South Africa, or India, claiming to be "neutral" on Russia's war of aggression is untenable.
The false promise of Washington's flawed CHIPS Act
News, Anne O Krueger, Published on 23/11/2022
» The US Congress recently approved the CHIPS and Science Act, which allocates over $50 billion (1.86 trillion baht) to strengthen the semiconductor industry in the hope of making the United States self-sufficient. And US Trade Representative Katherine Tai said that President Joe Biden's administration should be "replicating" the CHIPS Act for other industries "as the key to American competitiveness".
Thais willing to join talks on US Indo-Pacific regional pact
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 22/05/2022
» The government has asked the Foreign Ministry to announce Thailand's intention to join talks on the US' newly proposed multilateral trade agreement, known as the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF).
Nation asks US to cut it from trade watch list
News, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 21/05/2022
» Thailand has asked the United States to remove the country from its trade watch list this year, a request made during bilateral talks on the sidelines of this year's Apec Ministers Responsible for Trade (MRT) meeting in Bangkok.
ROAD TO REFORM
News, Postbag, Published on 20/02/2022
» Re: "Where have the media reformers gone?" (Opinion, Feb 18).
Iran: 'Boots on the ground' war unwinnable
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 22/05/2019
» 'After a long debate, the highest levels of the military could not forecast a way in which things would end favourably for the United States," said Richard Clarke, counter-terrorism adviser in the White House under three administrations. That was back in 2007, and he was talking about the Pentagon's attempts to come up with a winning strategy for a US war with Iran. No matter how they gamed it, the US lost.
Amnesty urges law on missing persons
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 19/04/2019
» Marking the fifth anniversary of the disappearance of the Karen forest activist Porlajee "Billy" Rakchongcharoen, who went missing in Kaeng Krachan National Park in Phetchaburi province, Amnesty International Thailand is seeking the new government's support to pass a draft law to criminalise enforced disappearances and torture by state officials.
Defining transphobia
News, Postbag, Published on 13/03/2019
» Re: "An open letter on inclusivity", (Life, March 12).