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Developing nations face solvency crisis
Oped, Anne O. Krueger, Published on 08/01/2025
» High debt levels are again setting off alarm bells worldwide. In developed countries, attention is focused on the rapid increase in public debt, while developing economies are struggling to service their external obligations amid slowing growth and stagnating exports.
Public trust key in Koh Kut challenge
Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 19/11/2024
» Recently, the Paetongtarn Shinawatra government and her praetorian guards have been up in arms, defending their position on the 2001 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Thailand and Cambodia. She has said that the government will negotiate with Phnom Penh and will soon establish a joint technical committee to do just that.
Ban Kanchanapisek's healing lessons
Oped, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 04/09/2024
» How do you heal hardcore young criminals and turn them into active citizens? Ask Thicha Nanakorn -- she has the answer.
Haiti's ticking humanitarian timebomb
Oped, John J Metzler, Published on 21/03/2024
» As waves of gang violence engulf an already poor and destitute land through a reckless orgy of shootings and looting, the Caribbean Island of Haiti equally faces a widening domestic humanitarian crisis along with a ticking migrant exodus.
Target for cuts
Oped, Postbag, Published on 09/03/2024
» Re: "Agencies ordered to cut waste", (BP, March 8).
Between the lines
Oped, Postbag, Published on 23/08/2023
» Re: "Political drama peaks", (Editorial, Aug 22).
Political shenanigans
Oped, Postbag, Published on 05/08/2023
» Re: "Policy issues behind Move Forward's failure to form govt: poll", (BP, July 30).
Premeditated Jerusalem violence
Oped, Orna Sagiv, Published on 12/04/2023
» The recent attacks in Israel demonstrate the consequences of using lies as political instruments, inciting terrorism and generating violence. Last Friday, two sisters, Rina (15) and Maia (20), were murdered when Palestinian terrorists sprayed the family's car with bullets. That evening, a car-ramming attack at Tel Aviv's beachfront promenade killed Alessandro Parini, a 35-year-old lawyer from Rome, and injured seven pedestrians, all tourists from Italy and the United Kingdom.
Finding heritage-based fixes for floods
Oped, Montira Horayangura Unakul, Published on 27/10/2022
» Whenever floods ravage Thailand, we hear many calls to enlarge drainage channels, construct new riverside barriers and build more pumping stations. But despite years of heroic engineering work, floods keep wreaking havoc.
Boosting Northeast India-Thailand ties
Oped, Rupakjyoti Borah, Published on 12/08/2022
» The northeastern part of India is a very important component of India's "Act-East Policy" as it shares land borders with Myanmar. As many as four states of Northeast India, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram share borders with Myanmar.