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Rights, freedoms hang in balance
Oped, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 30/12/2023
» The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) capped 2023 by celebrating its 75th birthday just before the year's end. As the seminal UN document on human rights, it is closely linked with the four freedoms: namely, freedom of expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. Where are we in that long march towards their realisation?
There's no hiding from Covid reality
Oped, Chairith Yonpiam, Published on 16/07/2022
» Over the past several months, the government has tried to give the impression that the pandemic is under control and that the war against the coronavirus is almost over. But the reality is the opposite.
More shock therapy for neoliberalism
Oped, Joseph Stiglitz, Published on 09/04/2022
» The fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine has reminded us of the unforeseeable disruptions constantly confronting the global economy. We have been taught this lesson many times. No one could have predicted the Sept 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and few anticipated the 2008 financial crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic, or Donald Trump's election, which resulted in the United States turning toward protectionism and nationalism.
Curbing Covid is everyone's task
Oped, Jos Vandelaer, Published on 11/02/2022
» The Covid-19 pandemic has now entered its third year. With the ongoing threat of the Omicron variant around the world, we can expect at least part of 2022 to be dominated by the struggle to contain the Sars-CoV-2 virus.
'Respirators' needed to deal with new variant
Oped, ML Rangsithorn Bhanubandh, Published on 27/12/2021
» The government must prevent the Omicron wave from wreaking havoc with healthcare and the economy by immediately revising Covid measures.
Brazil's pioneering solution to vaccine shortages
Oped, Joseph E Stiglitz, Achal Prabhala & Felipe Carvalho, Published on 06/12/2021
» The World Trade Organization was expected to meet the past week to consider a proposal that has been languishing for the past year: a temporary waiver of pharmaceutical intellectual property during the pandemic to allow poor countries to make many of the same tests, treatments, and vaccines that rich countries have had throughout the pandemic. Yet in a cruel reminder of the urgency of the problem, the WTO meeting was postponed, owing to the Omicron variant, detected by scientists in South Africa (though precisely where it originated remains unclear).
Need to fix system
Oped, Postbag, Published on 06/12/2021
» Re: "English teachers are needed", (PostBag, Dec 5).
Covid: Digital peasants and the ignorant rich
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/12/2021
» The new Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus was discovered last week by scientists in South Africa and Botswana, the only countries in southern Africa that have the skills and resources to detect a new variant.
Covid carousel
Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/12/2021
» Re: "B1 trillion to beat Omicron", (BP, Dec 3).
Can Omicron spur a Great Depression?
Oped, Chartchai Parasuk, Published on 02/12/2021
» The emergence of a new Covid-19 variant -- Omicron -- has caused quite a stir globally just as many nations are on the recovery track from the Delta variant. Scientists worry that the latest strain first detected in South Africa has as many as 50 mutations, 32 of them on the spike protein which theoretically makes it much more transmissible than the Delta variant.