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  • OPINION

    Peace talks must go on

    News, Published on 03/06/2013

    » The past three months of contacts with the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) have gone poorly. The group has shown no signs that it wishes to pursue actual peace talks, as it agreed in the Feb 28 pact with the government.

  • OPINION

    Misreading of global economy hurts

    News, Published on 03/06/2013

    » In April 2010, the International Monetary Fund's World Economic Outlook (WEO) offered an optimistic assessment of the global economy, describing a multi-speed recovery strong enough to support roughly 4.5% annual GDP growth for the foreseeable future _ a higher pace than during the bubble years of 2000-2007. But, since then, the IMF has steadily pared its economic projections. Indeed, this year's expected GDP growth rate of 3.3% _ which was revised downward in the most recent WEO _ will probably not be met.

  • OPINION

    Get kids to read

    News, Published on 03/06/2013

    » Din Hin's cartoon on June 1 hits the nail on the head and reveals the ''Bangkok World Book Capital 2013'' campaign for the joke that it always was from its inception.

  • OPINION

    Thawil gets justice and the government gets a slap

    News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 03/06/2013

    » Justice from the courts often comes late in this country. Sometimes, it comes too late, as in the case of four "scapegoat" defendants falsely charged, tried and imprisoned for the murder of 16-year old Thai-American girl Sherry Ann Duncan 26 years ago.

  • OPINION

    China shows Myanmar cannot take success for granted

    News, Published on 03/06/2013

    » In vogue after the success of China's growth and the critiques levelled at the Washington Consensus, could the Beijing Consensus be a model for Myanmar as it embarks on a historical opening to the global economy?

  • OPINION

    Flawed airport exposed by 'Great Escape'

    News, Saritdet Marukatat, Published on 03/06/2013

    » Suvarnabhumi airport lives up to its slogan, the ''Airport of Smiles''. At least for Carlo Konstantin Kohl. The German fugitive showed Thai authorities how friendly Suvarnabhumi is when passengers want to leave the airport without the bother of having to wait in immigration lanes or mingling among the long lines of air travellers passing through the place.

  • OPINION

    Peeling back the masks

    Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 03/06/2013

    » Aren't masks fun? And isn't it funny how people take masks seriously? Masks are just of a form of charade usually related to films and comic books, and for some reason they are often associated with heroes who are out to help the world against crime, tyrannical officials or other forms of oppression, but don't want people to know their identity.

  • OPINION

    Bangkok Post editorial cartoons: June 2013

    News, Published on 03/06/2013

    » This is a compilation of Bangkok Post editorial cartoons for the whole of June 2013.

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