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MRTA eyes Japan model for Praram 9
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 08/12/2025
» Tokyo: The Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA) is adopting Japan's well-established Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) model as it prepares to launch its first commercial land development project early next year.
Phuket forges ahead with AI City plan
News, Achadthaya Chuenniran, Published on 18/09/2025
» Phuket’s AI City project is gaining momentum as various aspects of public services will be automated using artificial intelligence.
AI set to replace most humans
News, Stephen Jen, Published on 22/08/2025
» Is technology more job augmenting or job replacing? This has been a long-standing debate. But recent academic work suggests that technology has been a net destroyer of jobs for decades.
Rethinking what it means to be human
News, Peerasit Kamnuansilpa, Published on 05/07/2025
» In the decades ahead, Thailand will not collapse in a blaze of war, disease, or climate catastrophe. Rather, it will quietly wither from within. The twin forces of demographic decline and digital automation are converging with astonishing speed, and yet our political and moral imaginations remain unprepared.
What 'Barbie' can really teach working-class men
News, Betsey Stevenson, Published on 14/03/2024
» Economists spend a lot of time talking about jobs. Work is not only how people support themselves financially, it can also be the way in which they contribute to society, create unique identities and find meaning in the world. When work disappears or shifts, people can feel as unmoored and confused as Ken in Greta Gerwig's Barbie, who had one last moment in the spotlight at this week's Academy Awards, when Ryan Gosling performed the Oscar-nominated song I'm Just Ken.
Robots to speed up service at Chulalongkorn Hospital
News, Oraphin Phangyang, Published on 19/01/2024
» King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital and the Thai Red Cross Society have deployed robots to speed up the administrative process in its outpatient department in an effort to improve public services.
FTI warns over hikes in minimum wage
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 13/12/2023
» The Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) has insisted that any increase in daily minimum wages must be decided by the tripartite wage committee.
Risk vs reward
News, Editorial, Published on 20/11/2023
» In the stock market, emotions often take over, and recent events that have affected the Thai bourse exemplify this.
Towards a global summit of the future?
News, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 19/06/2023
» If international plans are on course, there will be a global Summit of the Future (SOF) in 2024 at the UN General Assembly. Given that 2023 is already witnessing various global activities for the 30-year milestone of the 1993 Vienna World Conference on Human Rights, as well as a summit on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), what could be the value-added of the SOF? And perhaps the value-subtracted?
