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Fontanils returns to Thailand with a bigger aim
Sports, Derrick John Jeffrey, Published on 18/03/2018
» Cuban boxing coach Juan Fontanils has returned to the Kingdom with an aim to help Thai women win more than three Olympic medals.
Learning from Trat's ecosystem
Business, By James Wu, Published on 31/05/2018
» Our world is growing more intelligent by the day, and with it, the business landscape is changing. New ways to manage and operate organisations are emerging, along with fresh business models and opportunities. To keep up, companies face mounting pressure to go digital and fully connect all their assets.
Energy for common good as climate crisis deepens
News, Jeffrey D Sachs, Published on 26/06/2018
» The climate crisis we now face is a reflection of a broader crisis: a global confusion of means and ends. We continue to use fossil fuels because we can (means), not because they are good for us (ends).
Awareness is key for global sustainability
News, Jeffrey Williamson, Published on 21/08/2018
» In a recent opinion piece, the writer raised a universal point when discussing the use of farm chemicals.
America's dangerous war on Huawei
Asia focus, Jeffrey Sachs in New York, Published on 17/12/2018
» The arrest of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou is a dangerous move by the administration of US President Donald Trump in its intensifying conflict with China.
Trump's Syria withdrawal is a chance for peace
News, Jeffrey D Sachs, Published on 04/01/2019
» President Donald Trump's announced withdrawal of US forces from Syria has met with near-universal condemnation by Democrats and Republicans alike. That says less about Mr Trump than it does about the US foreign policy establishment's blinkered vision.
The real cost of Trump's 'incoherent' trade policies
News, Jeffrey Frankel, Published on 27/05/2019
» Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump suddenly revealed that a trade agreement between the United States and China was not imminent after all. On the contrary, on May 10, the Trump administration raised its previous 10% tariff on US$200 billion worth (about 6.35 trillion baht) of Chinese goods to 25%, and threatened to apply the same rate to the remaining $300 billion or so of US imports from China by late June. China then retaliated with reciprocal tariffs on $60 billion worth of US exports, effective June 1. Surprised stock markets fell in response, with the S&P 500 down 4% over the first week of the renewed trade war.
East-West divide underscored in Covid-19 controls
Oped, Jeffrey D Sachs, Published on 10/04/2020
» East Asian countries are outperforming the United States and Europe in controlling the Covid-19 pandemic, despite the fact that the outbreak began in China, to which the rest of East Asia is very closely bound by trade and travel. The US and Europe should be learning as rapidly as possible about the East Asian approaches, which could still save vast numbers of lives in the West and the rest of the world.
Anatomy of the coronavirus collapse
Asia focus, Eswar Prasad and Ethan Wu, Published on 27/04/2020
» The world economy is on the precipice of its worst crisis since World War II. Economic activity, financial markets and private-sector confidence are all cratering. And if international cooperation remains at its current level, a far more severe collapse is yet to come.
Donald Trump's last stand for 'apartheid America'
News, Jeffrey D Sachs, Published on 29/10/2020
» The ferocity of the 2020 presidential election in the United States is not about Donald Trump per se, but about what he represents: the racist structures of power that have persisted in America for centuries, though sometimes in mutated form. The long history of America's state-sponsored racism will draw to an end in the coming generation, which is why Mr Trump is so strikingly reactionary in his attempts to prolong it. Yet the damage that Mr Trump's brand of white nationalism could still cause to the US and the world if he wins a second term makes the election easily the most important in modern American history.