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Government stability tests performance
Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 03/04/2026
» Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has gone from strength to strength, leveraging a stopgap minority government late last year into solid majority rule after the Feb 8 election.
Where are we in terms of SDGs?
Oped, Evgeny Tomikhin, Published on 03/04/2026
» As 2026 began, the United Nations Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Unescap) headquarters reopened its doors for the annual Asia-Pacific Forum for Sustainable Development (APFSD).
Will Kharg Island decide the future of US alliances?
Oped, Carla Norrlöf, Published on 03/04/2026
» The key question about Iran's energy-export terminal on Kharg Island is not whether the United States can seize or disable it. Of course it can.
The fatal flaw of AI-driven business models
Oped, Joachim Klement, Published on 02/04/2026
» Hundreds of billions of dollars are riding on the assumption that artificial intelligence will be reliable enough for high-stakes work. New research suggests it may never be. The AI tools that power ChatGPT and its rivals -- known as large language models, or LLMs -- are a genuine productivity-enhancing innovation. But they have serious shortcomings, most notably, their tendency to hallucinate, or make things up.
Russia is winning the Iran War
Oped, Chris Patten, Published on 02/04/2026
» While the rationale for US President Donald Trump's Iran war is difficult to decipher, its main beneficiary is far easier to identify: Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Urgent push for fair climate finance
Oped, Sarinee Achavanuntakul, Published on 01/04/2026
» Ever more visible, the various impacts from climate change are eroding both Thailand's economic competitiveness and the livelihoods of its people: season by season, in heat waves that flatten productivity, floods that swallow farmland, and coastal erosion that is slowly reclaiming communities.
Save women's sport
Oped, Postbag, Published on 31/03/2026
» Re: "Women's sport limited to 'biological females'", (Sport, March 28).
US must let IAEA do its job in Iran
Oped, Helen Clark, Published on 31/03/2026
» The US-Israeli war on Iran has already destabilised the global economy and the geopolitics of the Middle East. Even more alarming, recent reporting shows that US President Donald Trump is deploying ground troops, a prospect that immediately evokes memories of past failed interventions -- from Vietnam to Iraq -- with their high costs in American and especially local lives.
Rethinking Thailand's visa-free policy
Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 31/03/2026
» Thailand is planning to cut visa-free stays from 60 days to 30 days. This long-overdue change reflects growing concern over the effectiveness of immigration surveillance. Moreover, scaling down visa-free stays underscores the seriousness of the Anutin government's efforts to combat scammers, illegal work, and other underground activities that exploit easy visa access to turn Thailand into a base for under-the-table operations.
Close statute legal loophole
Oped, Editorial, Published on 31/03/2026
» The decision by officials to drop all legal charges against Phra Dhammajayo, the former abbot of Wat Phra Dhammakaya, raises alarm bells about the exploitation of the statute of limitations in the justice system.