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Khunying Patama to promote road safety
News, Post Reporters, Published on 16/02/2026
» Philanthropist Khunying Patama Leeswadtrakul has joined forces with the United Nations and global sports leaders to promote road safety worldwide, urging stronger cross-sector and cross-border collaboration to turn pledges into action.
'Game changers' headline city summit
News, Published on 26/01/2026
» Bangkok will host a landmark financial summit, "The Game Changer: Outlook 2026 & Beyond," scheduled for Feb 3-4 at The Glasshouse, Nai Lert Park.
A model to keep multilateralism alive and well
News, José Manuel Barroso, Published on 27/12/2025
» Few would deny that there has been a shift away from multilateral cooperation in recent years. As the world becomes more multipolar, geopolitical tensions are hampering efforts to devise common solutions to shared problems, and rising nationalism and fiscal crises within many traditional donor countries are threatening the institutions on which multilateralism depends.
France celebrates National Day with grandeur in Bangkok, marking 340 years of ties with Siam
News, Published on 16/07/2025
» The French Embassy in Thailand hosted a grand reception at the Eastin Grand Hotel Phayathai, Bangkok, on Monday evening to commemorate France's National Day, observed annually on July 14. This year's celebration held added significance, marking 340 years since the first historic contact between Siam and France, and 169 years of formal diplomatic relations.
All eyes turn to conclave after Pope Francis's funeral
News, AFP, Published on 27/04/2025
» VATICAN CITY - With Pope Francis laid to rest, all eyes turn now to the conclave, the secretive meeting of cardinals set to convene within days to elect a new head of the Catholic Church.
Lack of data plagues Asia's 'long Covid' patients
News, Annie Banerji and Mariejo Ramos, Published on 03/03/2025
» From blackouts, a racing heart, extreme fatigue and brain fog, to severe depression and anxiety, DVL Padma Priya was hit with a constellation of symptoms in 2020, just months after recovering from Covid-19.
The crisis in West's AI industry needs attention
News, Charles Ferguson, Published on 10/02/2025
» The release of the Chinese DeepSeek-R1 large language model, with its impressive capabilities and low development cost, shocked financial markets and led to claims of a "Sputnik moment" in artificial intelligence. But a powerful, innovative Chinese model achieving parity with US products should come as no surprise. It is the predictable result of a major US and Western policy failure, for which the AI industry itself bears much of the blame.
Bitkub CEO discusses digital asset prospects at WEF
News, Published on 31/01/2025
» Jirayut "Topp" Srupsrisopa, founder and Group CEO of Bitkub Capital Group Holdings Co, emphasised Thailand's growing prominence in the digital asset and blockchain sector during his participation at the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2025 in Davos, Switzerland.
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".
EU needs to focus on innovation
News, Philippe Aghion & Mathias Dewatripont & Jean Tirole, Published on 14/10/2024
» In the three decades after World War II, Western Europe caught up with the United States in terms of per capita GDP. But since the mid-1990s, this trend has reversed, with the US growing twice as fast as Europe.