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Level playing field, please
Oped, Editorial, Published on 11/09/2024
» As the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games have drawn to a close, the nation is still rejoicing at seeing so many Thai athletes bring home medals while breaking a few records along the way.
An Olympic-sized Covid-19 risk
Oped, Takatoshi Ito, Published on 18/06/2021
» In 2020, Asia -- especially East Asia -- was often touted as a model of effective pandemic response. While Western countries endured harsh lockdowns and soaring infection and death rates, Asian countries largely kept the coronavirus under control. But the tables have turned, with East Asia now lagging far behind the United States and Europe on vaccinations. This does not bode well for this summer's Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo.
State schemes leave the poor behind
Oped, Worawan Chandoevwit & Boondhariga Chonpitakwong, Published on 25/03/2020
» For people in their 80s, night time is for sleeping. Not for 83-year-old Khem, a poor villager in Buri Ram province. Sleep is a luxury when a big fair in a city nearby means a chance for him to earn some coins from busking.
Pyeongchang winter games herald peace, prosperity
Oped, Shamshad Akhtar, Published on 09/02/2018
» All eyes are on the 23rd Olympic Winter Games and 12th Paralympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang. Top athletes will carry their national flags in an opening ceremony which has come to epitomise the international community. Sports fans worldwide eagerly await the Olympics, and this time there is cause for cautious optimism that sport diplomacy may lower tensions on the Korean Peninsula itself. Leaders, diplomats and citizens from the world over will witness North and South Korean athletes walking side by side. For this, there could be few better places than Pyeongchang, which means peace (Pyeong) and prosperity (Chang): goals integral to the mission of the United Nations and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.