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How to succeed in the age of AI
News, Nuthasid Rukkiatwong & Kotchakorn Khwamchareon, Published on 08/08/2018
» Recent waves of technological innovation will have a deep impact on the labour market due to their rapidly expanding ability to perform human tasks and the declining cost of implementing them. Some of the most disruptive advances occur in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), where machines learn to perform tasks in a similar way to humans.
Dictators need love
News, Postbag, Published on 08/08/2018
» Re: "A nation uninformed", (PostBag, Aug 7).
China could yet win trade war with Trump's America
News, David A Andelman, Published on 08/08/2018
» If you want to know why Donald Trump shouldn't expect to win a trade war against China, look no further than Alibaba, the country's giant e-commerce version of Amazon. Last month, I had two in-depth conversations with Ming Zeng, the e-commerce giant's head of strategic planning and among the smartest minds in business and finance in China. Mr Ming made it clear that China has little real need for America any more -- not US products, but especially not US ideas. When thwarted, China has shown it can think up its own.
PM wrong to demand love and respect
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 07/08/2018
» Before long, Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha could be crooning, "You Must Love Me". He could force us to listen to him all day every day. Or he could issue yet another draconian Section 44 order demanding the populace to show him "respect" wherever he goes.
A nation uninformed
News, Postbag, Published on 07/08/2018
» Re: "The strong arm of the law", (Opinion, Aug 5).
8 August 1918: The turn of a coin in the Great War
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 07/08/2018
» On 8 Aug 1918, one hundred years ago tomorrow, it finally became clear who was going to win the First World War. Nine Canadian and Australian divisions, almost 200,000 men, attacked the German trenches near Amiens, deep in France -- and for the first time in the war, the German troops ran away.
Farm debt help is mutton dressed as lamb
News, Decharut Sukkumnoed, Published on 06/08/2018
» Will the latest round of debt-restructuring for farmers, with various loans as well as subsidies, which has been launched by the Prayut Chan-o-cha government reduce their debt?
Retract the 14 silly rules
News, Editorial, Published on 06/08/2018
» In just a few days, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has taken a tonne of ridicule about new regulations for media coverage. A 14-point set of so-called guidelines was issued to the press on Friday, especially for photographers. They order news snappers to get prior approval for every set of photos, try to completely ban certain pictures, and even decree that those behind cameras dress better than at present. Some of the orders are more unethical than the actions they seek to regulate.
Narratives of denial
News, Postbag, Published on 06/08/2018
» Re: "Despite claims, cracks show in Rohingya return narrative", (BP, Aug 4).
Steve Bannon's boost to Europe's far right parties
News, John Lloyd, Published on 06/08/2018
» The various movements gathered under the name of Europe's "far right" have not risen like a straight line on a graph. There have been -- still are -- lows as well as highs. Yet there is a new sense of purpose, thanks to a new movement -- called "The Movement," and launched by former Donald Trump aide Steve Bannon -- and to Hungarian premier Viktor Orban's call to the right to "concentrate our strength" on the May 2019 elections to the European Parliament.