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Bangkok's clean streets, empty souls
Oped, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 10/11/2025
» Banthat Thong used to be a neighbourhood, not a concept. You could live here and find everything: restaurants, bookstores, hardware shops, clinics, banks -- even a place to have your shirts made. It was one of those streets where life unfolded upstairs and business happened downstairs. Today, it is something else entirely.
When Labubu dolls transform into a protest symbol
Oped, Jackie Mansky, Published on 17/09/2025
» I was surprised to see Labubus, the mega-popular toy monsters with Puck-like grins, staring at me in the crowd at anti-ICE demonstrations in Los Angeles in June.
Less is more in restoring Asia's past
Oped, Jeff Allen & Waraporn Suwatchotikul, Published on 01/08/2024
» For decades, restorations of Southeast Asia's archaeological sites have typically involved transforming the past rather than faithfully presenting it. Conservationists often take a heavy-handed approach, embellishing a site to effectively "manufacture" a ruin that will appeal to visitors. But this tends to do more harm than good.
Thailand's regional security makeover
Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 05/03/2024
» After more than six months in power, border security-related issues have emerged as the Srettha government's non-economic top priority.
Thailand can be Asia's food powerhouse
Oped, Jacques-Chai Chomthongdi, Published on 29/09/2023
» It comes as no surprise that the challenges and hardships faced by Thai farmers were among the key themes during the recent 50-minute policy statements delivered by Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Srettha Thavisin to the parliament. These challenges have plagued Thailand for generations, and it is high time we seek innovative solutions to address them.
Pheu Thai poised to sleep with the enemy
Oped, Chairith Yonpiam, Published on 12/08/2023
» Three months after the election, attempts to form a government -- this time by Pheu Thai -- remain clouded with uncertainty as political situations can change quickly.
The trouble with carbon markets
Oped, Simon Zadek, Published on 07/03/2023
» In January, it was revealed that as much as 90% of the carbon credits approved by one of the world's largest certifiers may be phantom, thus not representing actual carbon cuts in the atmosphere. While the scandal may have shocked some, it should be no surprise. Today's voluntary carbon markets are not designed to be fit for purpose.
Rise above the folly
Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/03/2023
» Re: "Foreigners flee Thai stocks", (Business, March 2).
PPRP's break-up all part of the 'plan'
Oped, Chairith Yonpiam, Published on 19/11/2022
» When all the Apec summit formalities are over, it's likely Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha will make the uncertainty about his political future clearer, particularly over whether he will cut links with the ruling Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) and align with the Ruam Thai Sang Chart Party (RTSCP), recently set up by his close aides. One thing is clear, he has no plan to leave politics.
Taking back the oceans, before it's too late
Oped, Alexander Kozul-Wright, Published on 27/08/2022
» The United Nations convened its Ocean Conference (Unoc) in Lisbon, Portugal in June. The goal was to “to propel much needed science-based innovative solutions aimed at starting a new chapter of global ocean action” The world needs a “sustainably managed ocean”, according to the UN’s under-secretary-general for legal affairs, Miguel de Serpa Soares, who hailed the conference as an “enormous success”. If only.