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Solar key to accelerating Africa's energy transition
Oped, Charlotte Aubin, Published on 13/01/2018
» For much of Africa, the transition from fossil fuels to cleaner forms of energy is seen as an environmental imperative. With fossil fuels comprising a majority -- as high as 70% in some cases -- of the energy mix, the situation on the continent is indeed ecologically dire.
Leave Yingluck be
Oped, Postbag, Published on 13/01/2018
» Re: "Officials 'must capture Yingluck'," (BP, Jan 12). We should all extend our sympathy to the government for having to resist pressure from various sources to pursue extradition proceedings against Yingluck Shinawatra.
Designer brands shed big bucks to stave off copycats
Oped, Lim Wei Shi, Christopher Tang & Sarah Gao Yini, Published on 13/01/2018
» Thailand is on a drive to clamp down on black market branded goods with its "Stop Fake Goods" campaign aimed at tourists, which started at the end of last year.
As US exits TPP, Beijing sharpens claws
Oped, Keith Maskus, Published on 13/01/2018
» One of the first acts of US President Donald Trump's administration was to announce that the United States would withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the massive free-trade agreement among 12 countries of East Asia and the Pacific.
School chief deserves jail
Oped, Editorial, Published on 27/01/2018
» Those investigating a sex scandal involving a school director and a 14-year-old student in Nakhon Ratchasima deserve praise for wrapping up the case in such a short period of time. The initial probe was obviously forced by the huge public attention concerning the case of Nathaphob Thongboontho, director of Ban Patong Tha Neon Samakkhee School in Nakhon Ratchasima’s Bua Yai district, and the girl, who is an 8th-grade student (Mathayom 2).
Scandal won’t go away
Oped, Postbag, Published on 27/01/2018
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha needs to understand that this luxury watch scandal is a serious issue. This so-called “private matter” of his deputy will weigh heavily on his credibility as long as he stays on as Thailand’s prime minister -- and will never stops unless and until this apparently inappropriate behavioural problem is corrected.
Rohingya repatriation deal problematic
Oped, Roshni Kapur, Published on 27/01/2018
» On Jan 15, Bangladesh and Myanmar held discussions to finalise the details of a repatriation deal. The agreement will see thousands of Rohingya repatriated from Bangladeshi refugee camps to Myanmar within a two-year framework starting this month.
Writing’s on wall for our democracy
Oped, Kong Rithdee, Published on 27/01/2018
» The other day I saw some graffiti in a public toilet. It read, ars longa, vita brevis. Art is long, life is short, as the popular translation goes. Like a street artist, I decided to vandalise it, scratching out and changing the first bit with my poor Latin: dictatura longa, vita brevis. Dictatorship is long, life is short.
Down the rabbit hole
Oped, Postbag, Published on 03/02/2018
» Help me, somebody, I think I must have fallen down a rabbit hole and found myself in a world as crazy as Alice did. In this strange, topsy-turvy world the people who ousted an elected government, an action usually considered more serious than sedition is now arresting protesters and dissidents for actions and speech inciting people to rebel against their government.
A healthcare no-brainer for Mr Trump
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 09/02/2018
» It began, as so many things do these days, with a Donald Trump tweet. Frustrated by his inability to kill the “Obamacare” expansion of public healthcare provision in the United States, Mr Trump seized on a protest about the under-funding of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) in London last Saturday to trash the entire concept of universal healthcare paid out of taxes and free at the point of delivery.