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Thailand needs a geostrategic rebalance
Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 06/06/2025
» With two military coups and multiple judicial interventions that combined to subvert election results and weaken democratic institutions over the past two decades, it is unsurprising that Thailand's geostrategic position has leaned increasingly towards China. Naturally, the more Thailand becomes autocratic, the more it will be estranged from established democracies in Europe and North America, as well as Japan and South Korea, with nowhere to turn but to Beijing. But this China orientation is a geostrategic mistake at this time. Thailand should correct its course until clearer signs emerge as to which side of the superpower struggle will come out on top.
Is AI a curse or a blessing for education?
Oped, Matthew Robert Ferguson, Published on 17/08/2024
» My collegiate rowing coach at the University of Western Ontario was an eccentric West German named Dr Volker Nolte, a stocky and imposing figure who was only funny when he didn't mean to be. He was a biomechanics wizard, obsessing over the countervailing forces of the rower and shell, currents and winds, blades and water. In the early 80s, as part of his doctoral research, he designed a sliding rigger that moved along the hull of the boat on slides in tandem with the rower, which, when compared to a fixed rigger, effectively doubled the force and propulsion of every stroke. It made second-tier rowers competitive with the best in the world.
The Chinese factor in Modi's Moscow mission
News, Brahma Chellaney & &, Published on 11/07/2024
» Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first visit to Russia in five years underscores the strategic importance India attaches to its relationship with Moscow. Indian leaders view that relationship as essential to a balanced foreign policy and to provide strategic leverage against China.
UN assembly opens amid widening crises
Oped, John J. Metzler, Published on 13/09/2023
» Presidents, prime ministers, kings and potentates are converging on New York for the opening session of the UN General Assembly. The 78th annual assembly of the world organisation presents both a global gala and expanded summit meeting to try to solve a myriad of crises facing the international community.
Vicious cycle
News, Postbag, Published on 02/08/2019
» Re: "Army unwilling to yield to democracy", (Opinion, July 31).
It's time to tackle domestic violence
News, Editorial, Published on 25/11/2018
» Another young woman has fallen victim to domestic violence. Saifon, a young farmworker in Nakhon Si Thammarat, was killed this week by her jealous former husband after she tried to end the relationship.
Poverty took Anucha's life, not boxing
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 17/11/2018
» At the age of eight, do any of you remember what did you do for your family? Did anyone have to work to feed yourself? Or earn money for textbooks and clothes? Or bus fares?
Stop abuse in our homes
News, Editorial, Published on 09/08/2018
» On Tuesday, Nitiwadee "Mor Nim" Pucharoenyos, a victim of domestic violence, was spared the death sentence as the Appeal Court found her not guilty of killing her estranged husband. Instead, the court gave her mother the ultimate punishment for masterminding the murder.
Buddhism Lost
Oped, Postbag, Published on 21/06/2018
» I was appalled with the execution of a convict (BP, June 18). I don’t defend in any way what he did and if he murdered my child I would want to kill him. But that is the human instinct. When the state coldly determines someone’s death it is entirely different.
Deliver the letter, the sooner the better
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 08/04/2018
» There was an interesting tale of postal detective work recently at the New Zealand village of Cust on the South Island. A parcel received by the local postal centre bore the following cryptic address: ''To Kay and Philip. A farm, situated up a long driveway with cows, opposite a pub or thereabouts."