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Social Security Office to press ahead with 2026 calendar
News, Post Reporters, Published on 29/07/2025
» The Social Security Office (SSO) is moving ahead with its 2026 calendar project, highlighting its role as a communication tool for insured members despite scrutiny over its 49-million-baht budget.
Forget American exceptionalism, it's a tri polar world
News, Jay Pelosky, Published on 11/01/2025
» In 2024, the watchword in financial markets was "American exceptionalism", as the US economy and markets left the rest of the world in the dust. But as the calendar turns, it may now be time to remove these geographic blinders to consider the larger regional competition likely to reshape the global economy in the coming years. We may be in the midst of a long-term global growth cycle driven by intensifying competition in the critical areas of artificial intelligence, green technology, and security between the world's three dominant regions: the Americas, Asia and Europe. (It's what I refer to as the Tri Polar World.)
Big things expected from new microelectronics plant
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 08/10/2024
» Thailand's first-ever silicon carbide wafer factory slated to start production in Lamphun province within the next two years will set a milestone for the country's semiconductor industry, according to the Thai Microelectronics Center (TMEC), the national research and development unit of wafer fabrication.
Air e-tickets usher in era of digital IDs
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 04/02/2023
» Passengers are now allowed to use digital IDs to verify their identity when boarding domestic flights.
Uncertainty ahead for Thai economy
News, Kirida Bhaopichitr, Published on 21/12/2022
» The Thai economy will face many headwinds but also tailwinds next year, mainly from the global economy and geopolitical tensions. In 2022, the Thai economy slowly recovered from the Covid pandemic as lockdowns ended and the economy was reopened to international travel.
The false promise of Washington's flawed CHIPS Act
News, Anne O Krueger, Published on 23/11/2022
» The US Congress recently approved the CHIPS and Science Act, which allocates over $50 billion (1.86 trillion baht) to strengthen the semiconductor industry in the hope of making the United States self-sufficient. And US Trade Representative Katherine Tai said that President Joe Biden's administration should be "replicating" the CHIPS Act for other industries "as the key to American competitiveness".
Payments scandal overshadows vote
News, Post Reporters, Published on 24/07/2022
» The government comfortably survived a no-confidence vote on Saturday even as commotion opened on another front concerning secret payments to small parties.
How to stop sea level rise at its source
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 05/06/2022
» 'Ninety percent of ice flowing to the sea from the Antarctic ice sheet, and about half of that lost from Greenland, travels in narrow, fast ice streams measuring tens of kilometres or less across. Stemming the largest flows would allow the ice sheets to thicken, slowing or even reversing their contribution to sea-level rise."
US denies viral chat's authenticity
News, Wassana Nanuam and Kornchanok Raksaseri, Published on 20/04/2021
» The Line chat between a protest leader and a former US Embassy official is a complete fabrication, the US Embassy in Bangkok spokeswoman told Bangkok Post yesterday.
How contact tracing exposed a Covid-19 hoax
News, Yvonne T Chua, Published on 14/01/2021
» The diet hoax -- that eating high-alkaline foods could beat Covid-19 -- should have died down by now. After all, science experts and fact checkers across the globe had been quick to bust it when it came out.