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Border conflict tests big powers' resolve
News, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 23/12/2025
» Few would have imagined that the current Thailand-Cambodia conflict could generate such deep strategic anxiety, if not outright uncertainty, across Southeast Asia and beyond. From a Thai perspective, the tensions have revealed something far more consequential than just another bilateral border dispute. It is no longer a tit-for-tat affair.
Coalition in crisis
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 09/07/2025
» Amnesty bills are now taking precedence over the more controversial Entertainment Complex Bill as the administration walks a political tightrope, with critics wondering if the move is a sincere attempt to reconcile a fragmenting coalition or rather a strategic manoeuvre by an embattled government.
World Economic Forum names three Thais as young global leaders
News, Published on 17/04/2025
» Three Thais including Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra are listed as Young Global Leaders 2025 by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
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".
Sustainability expo to inspire a 'better world'
News, Post Reporters, Published on 28/09/2023
» The Sustainability Expo 2023 (SX2023) will kick off with a food festival, a themed marketplace and kids zones at Queen Sirikit National Convention Center (QSNCC) on Friday.
Seoul turning its focus on Asean
News, Thanapat Pekanan, Published on 21/06/2021
» In 2017, the newly elected President of South Korea, Moon Jae-in, made the unprecedented move to enhance his country's relationship with countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) by introducing the "New Southern Policy" (NSP) during a state visit to Indonesia.
A game of coalition chess
News, Published on 17/08/2019
» Political positions have of course been around as long as politics itself. However, for the current government, they now provide a vital lifeline.
Life is an illusion
News, Postbag, Published on 12/06/2019
» All forms of government are only an illusion. It is what one accepts and is happy with, for whatever reasons. North Koreans know no other government so they are happy in the illusion that theirs is the best. The old Stalinists live with the illusion that the USSR was the best. Americans live with the illusion that their democracy is the best, and most Thais somehow do not really care one way or another as long as they are left alone to pursue their lives.
Lawmaking generals
News, Postbag, Published on 12/05/2019
» Re: "Senate post for PM brother not a problem, says Prawit", (BP, May 11).
Prawit rules out post-election coup
News, Post Reporters, Published on 23/03/2019
» Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon has dismissed concerns about post-election political unrest and a military coup.