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Some sensible steps
Oped, Postbag, Published on 01/04/2020
» Here are my suggestions to help deal with the Covid-19 pandemic.
Fighting Covid-19 with clean hearts
News, Pirongrong Ramasoota, Published on 01/04/2020
» Covid-19 is a test for humanity on many levels -- health, management, economy, innovation and more importantly, morality.
Save the old or save the economy?
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 01/04/2020
» The basic choice all along with Covid-19 has been: Do we let the old die, or do we take a big hit economically? So far, the decision almost everywhere has been to take the hit and save the old (or most of them), but in some places it has been a very near-run thing.
Unburden deathtrap jails
Oped, Editorial, Published on 01/04/2020
» The risk is obvious. There are 377,000 prisoners across the country jam-packed in prisons built to accommodate no more than 250,000 inmates. This overcrowding has resulted in each inmate having a space of less than one square metre in which to sleep.
Coronavirus and democracy in Southeast Asia
Oped, James Gomez & Robin Ramcharan, Published on 01/04/2020
» In Southeast Asia, as the health crisis escalates and countries go into different variations of a lockdown, it is affording regimes with authoritarian tendencies the opportunity to suppress political expression, enforce strict obedience and consolidate their rule. Unless this is called out and actions taken to address these measures, a post-Covid-19 Southeast Asia will put democracy on the backfoot in the region.
Solid financials offer firepower to weather crisis
Oped, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 02/04/2020
» Like other countries, Thailand is fighting a war against Covid-19. For the government, it cannot afford to lose this war as it must ensure safety to public health, buffer the outbreak's impact on the economy and help affected people who have lost jobs and incomes.
Forests doomed by power and prejudice
Oped, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 02/04/2020
» After nearly two months of being blanketed by a thick toxic haze with zero national attention due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the city of Chiang Mai last week became like a "gas chamber".
The 'injustice' system
Oped, Postbag, Published on 02/04/2020
» Re: "Unburden deathtrap jails", (Editorial, April 1).
Protect the protectors
Oped, Editorial, Published on 02/04/2020
» Moral support, financial donations and gifts whether in the form of face masks, food or other necessities have been pouring in for doctors, nurses and other health personnel combating the coronavirus outbreak. But the goodwill gestures are not enough.
Don't leave the poor kids behind
Oped, Bundit Kertbundit, Published on 02/04/2020
» In less than three months, the coronavirus disease has spread fast and furious, wreaking havoc across the country in ways unimaginable. Responding to the avalanche of threats, authorities have thrown down the gauntlet and rushed to open the spigots of support measures to keep society and the economy afloat.