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Mines, rivers, and a regional crisis
Oped, Tuenjai Deetes, Published on 18/12/2025
» 'When I was a child, the Kok River and the Mekong were clear and alive. We drank directly from the river. Women and mothers gathered along the banks, hauling in fishing nets fully loaded with heavy fish, which we cooked and ate the same day. We were happy. We lived without fear -- fear of toxins, fear for our health.
Are Trump's tariffs going to be worth it?
Oped, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Published on 03/12/2024
» US President-elect Donald Trump's promise to impose a 60% tariff on imports from China and a 10-20% tariff on all other imports has triggered a public debate about whether such policies are really so bad. After all, a tariff is a consumption tax, and most economists favour taxes on consumption over income taxes.
Reunion tour
Oped, Postbag, Published on 18/04/2024
» Re: "Ex-PM keen for sister to come back", (BP, April 15).
Remember the name
Oped, Postbag, Published on 20/02/2024
» Re: "Lessons to be learnt from Navalny's fight", (Opinion, Feb 19).
Finlandisation: Asia plays the neutrality card
Oped, Takatoshi Ito, Published on 26/05/2022
» 'Finlandisation" describes the commitment to strategic neutrality that a small country might make, in order to avoid provoking a much larger and more powerful neighbour. The term is derived from Finland's longstanding policy of strict military non-alignment with either the Soviet Union or the West -- a policy that it maintained vis-à-vis Russia after the end of the Cold War but that its recent application for Nato membership has upended. But even as Finland abandons Finlandisation, many Asian countries may well be set to adopt it.
A monopoly, for sure
Oped, Postbag, Published on 21/11/2020
» Re: "A more unequal society than ever before", (Opinion, Nov 14).
Wean farmers off chemicals
Oped, Editorial, Published on 02/09/2020
» The Prayut Chan-o-cha government must prevent attempts by the Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives Ministry to revoke the ban on farmers using extremely toxic substances on their crops.
'Bleach mum' exposes welfare failure
Oped, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 03/06/2020
» Had not the doctors intervened, a two-year-old toddler may have been poisoned to death by his mother. They could not save the boy's four-year-old sister, however. She was already dead from the same malady.