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Innovation key to affordable healthcare
Oped, Natcha Yongphiphatwong, Published on 21/06/2023
» We all want good health and decent public health welfare. When we fall ill, the cures are also much more effective thanks to modern medical advancements. But the soaring costs of healthcare have made it beyond most people's grasp.
Building broad support for constitutional reform
News, Ken Lohatepanont, Published on 23/10/2019
» As is characteristic of our polarised society, opinion is deeply divided on whether the 2017 constitution should be amended.
Shinzo Abe's constitution dream
Asia focus, Ken Lohatepanont, Published on 08/07/2019
» 'When the country is strong, and the risk of war small, when there is no threat of being attacked from without," the Japanese novelist Natsume Soseki once said, "then nationalism ought to diminish accordingly."
Mission Impossible in Hong Kong
Asia focus, Ken Lohatepanont, Published on 17/06/2019
» A million people on the streets. A demonstration that stretched across Causeway Bay. A movement that foreign media breathlessly dubbed Hong Kong's "last stand". Last week's protests marked a historic moment, but they also had an idealistic, almost fatalistic, air.
Democratic system more than just popular vote
News, Ken Lohatepanont, Published on 30/03/2019
» Sontirat Sontijirawong, the secretary-general of the Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP), recently complained about the media labelling different parties either as "pro-democracy" or "pro-dictatorship". The PPRP, Mr Sontirat argued, ran in a democratic election and won around eight million votes and, as such, the PPRP is as much pro-democracy as any other party.
What's next for the Democrat Party?
News, Ken Lohatepanont, Published on 17/11/2018
» Former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva recently won re-election as the Democrat Party leader, seeing off two challengers. While the result concluded the question of who would lead the party into the next general election, tentatively scheduled for February 2019, it opens up many more unresolved issues about the party's electoral viability and future.
Runway mystery
News, Postbag, Published on 08/06/2018
» I am a little surprised to read that AoT's proposed solution to cure the "soft spots" in the runway, taxiways and aprons at Suvarnabhumi airport is to replace the present ashpalt surfaces with concrete (BP, June 6).
Fostering norms to sustain Thailand's democracy
News, Ken Lohatepanont, Published on 06/06/2018
» With the next election tentatively scheduled for February 2019, it is not long before Thailand returns to democracy. And while many in the country are excited about the prospect of an election, others are weary of reverting to politics as usual.