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Troubled democracy
Postbag, Published on 12/09/2024
» Re: "Thai politics has turned upside down", (Opinion, Aug 23).
Doing good can give a business competitive edge
Oped, Peter Singer, Published on 13/02/2024
» It seems counterintuitive, but in a capitalist economy, doing the most good can provide a competitive edge. I am not referring to businesses that donate a tiny percentage of their profits to charities or tell you that they are reducing greenhouse gas emissions. I am talking about businesses that donate 100% of their profits -- or close to it -- to effective charities that do a lot of good.
Govt supplied guns
Oped, Postbag, Published on 15/09/2023
» Re: "Mafia blitz spurs gun amnesty", (BP, Sept 14).
Would you like to time travel?
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 12/12/2022
» Time travel remains a fantasy since we can't actually step into a blue police box or a DeLorean to journey into the fourth dimension.
FTX saga shows not all ends justify means
Oped, Peter Singer, Published on 30/11/2022
» In the wake of the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, and amid reports that FTX's founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, diverted billions of dollars of clients' funds, some observers have linked the alleged financial malpractice to ideas widely held within the "effective altruism" movement, which Mr Bankman-Fried says inspired him. More specifically, they point to the ethical view that the end justifies the means.
Daring to like a harmless soap, despite critics
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 16/08/2021
» Nothing can drive up the ratings of a TV soap opera like threats from the government to launch legal action against the show's producer. This truism was well proven by the case of Hai Rak Pi Pak Sa (Dare to Love), a TV soap airing on TV 3 Channel.
Avoid grim ritual of Songkran deaths
News, Leo Horn-Phathanothai, Evelyn Murphy and Claudia Adriazola-Steil, Published on 12/04/2021
» Too many of us have been personally touched in our lives by tragic road crashes that have maimed or killed a loved one. For far too many, Songkran will be a moment not for merriment but for mourning. Thailand has among the highest rates of road fatalities in the world, ranking top in the region. More people die in Thailand from road crashes in two days than have died from Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. And the numbers tragically always spike at times of festivity, including Songkran.
Palestinian reckoning as Arab states open to Israel
News, Rami Ayyub, Published on 17/09/2020
» Israel's rapprochement with Gulf Arab states has left the Palestinians feeling abandoned by traditional allies and clutching an old playbook in a rapidly changing Middle East, analysts and critics say.
Linked in isolation
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 27/04/2020
» It has been over a month of staying in and working from home in order to save ourselves and the country from being badly hit by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Subs or clean air?
News, Postbag, Published on 21/01/2020
» I read that the first batch of Thai navy personnel are heading to China for training to run the purchased submarines (total contract value 36 billion baht).