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Flexing our way to better health and climate
Oped, Chokdee Smithkittipol, Published on 30/09/2021
» A recent analysis by Climate Action Tracker shows that overall climate action by the the government is critically insufficient, and not yet consistent with the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C temperature limit. If Thailand is to take its climate change responsibilities seriously, the country must look at how it produces its food.
Two hats not good
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 07/10/2018
» When Bangkok got too noisy because of all the criticism about cabinet ministers taking advantage by openly playing politics unfairly, the general prime minister escaped to the North on another scrupulously non-political trip to give away money and be photographed with every local personality and housewife within 20 kilometres.
The Cambridge Analytica red herring
News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 21/03/2018
» Facebook is being hammered for allowing the data firm Cambridge Analytica to acquire 50 million user profiles in the US, which it may or may not have used to help the Trump campaign. But the outrage misses the target: There's nothing Cambridge Analytica could have done that Facebook itself doesn't offer political clients.