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Baht headache
Oped, Postbag, Published on 18/12/2025
» Re: "BoT cracks down on surging baht", (Business, Dec 17). While the baht's currency strength is an ever-more concerning issue, as pointed out numerous times, what is rarely mentioned is the likely excess Thai foreign reserves, nearing an astonishing US$270 billion.
Curb open burning
Oped, Postbag, Published on 21/07/2025
» Re: "Taking stock of nation's climate finance", (Opinion, July 17).
Does 'slacktivism' deserve its bad reputation?
Oped, Lisa Mueller, Published on 23/08/2024
» Earlier this year, activists opposing the war in Gaza marched onto the Golden Gate Bridge and Interstate 880 in Oakland. They blocked traffic for hours, some chaining themselves to vehicles or cement-filled drums. Twenty-six were arrested and charged.
What the climate fight is really about
Oped, Gernot Wagner, Published on 02/08/2023
» Climate change is no longer a future problem. It is here, and the effects are all around. Worse, today's extreme weather events are just a preview of the pain that awaits humanity in the coming decades, almost regardless of how fast we manage to decarbonise the economy this year or next.
Stuck in the past
Oped, Postbag, Published on 12/01/2023
» Re: "Insults are not inspiring" (Editorial, Jan 11).
Get your own gifts!
Oped, Postbag, Published on 24/12/2022
» Re: "Dept set to inspect NY gift baskets" (BP, Dec 19).
Apec's echo
Oped, Postbag, Published on 24/11/2022
» Re: "Nuan is the cat's whiskers at Apec", (PostScript, Nov 20).
Real social networks coming to an end
Oped, Daron Acemoglu, Published on 09/09/2022
» Not only are billions of people around the world glued to their mobile phones, but the information they consume has changed dramatically -- and not for the better. On dominant social media platforms like Facebook, researchers have documented that falsehoods spread faster and more widely than similar content that includes accurate information. Though users are not demanding misinformation, the algorithms that determine what people see tend to favour sensational, inaccurate and misleading content, because that is what generates "engagement" and thus advertising revenue.
Cambodia, Asean need to step up in Rohingya crisis
Oped, Samina Akhter, Published on 03/08/2022
» Since August 2017, rampant persecution and violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state has pushed hundreds of thousands of Muslim minority people, known as the Rohingya, to abandon their homes and seek sanctuary in Bangladesh. According to the United Nations' estimation, 200,000 Myanmar civilians have already sought refuge in Bangladesh following prior displacements. Many more have travelled to Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, frequently with the assistance of human traffickers.
Measuring poverty appropriately
Oped, Nurul Izzah Anwar, Published on 18/02/2022
» The 2019 Oscar-winning film Parasite attracted a global audience for its arresting portrayal of South Korea's stark income inequality. The movie's rendering of a low-income household's acute sense of alienation resonated widely, no doubt because similar sentiments are palpable in many other countries. And the gap between the haves and have-nots is growing, thanks to the dual challenges of Covid-19 and climate change.