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Camaraderie extends to outside protest sites
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 11/02/2014
» The ongoing political rallies have engendered a mixed reaction among city dwellers. While much has been aired in the press about the negative side of it all, I would like to take the opportunity to highlight the positive.
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Battling the killer viruses
News, Published on 11/02/2014
» Thailand, take a bow. Specifically, take a bow to the medical community — from the Ministry of Public Health on down the chain of command to the village health volunteers. Every sentient parent, worker and their monks, imams and public school teachers, take a bow, too. There is a terrific map of the world made by the US Council on Foreign Relations showing the resurgence of preventable diseases. Thailand isn't on it.
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Emerging economies under strain
News, Published on 11/02/2014
» For many emerging economies, 2014 has gotten off to a grim start. Concern over the Chinese economy’s marked slowdown and the Argentine peso’s steep slide against the US dollar has triggered heavy selling pressure on an array of emerging-market currencies. But the current volatility does not portend sustained weaker growth in emerging economies as a whole. Differentiation is needed, and that is what financial markets are now doing.
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Postbag: Anand’s 'deal' likely?
News, Published on 11/02/2014
» Re: "Anand warns of recession", (BP, Feb 10).
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Thaksin thinks, Pheu Thai bungles
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 11/02/2014
» The more woeful the government’s rice-pledging policy has become, the more frequently I find myself thinking back to caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's mistake on election day when she dropped her ballot paper in the wrong box.
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Elites hatch backroom deals as country stumbles on
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 11/02/2014
» The protracted political deadlock, aggravated by escalating violence, has prompted members of the social elite to come out and share their concerns.
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Judicial activism in the People’s Court comes of age
News, Published on 11/02/2014
» Critics of the 2007 constitution argue that they are instruments for the resurgence of a bureaucratic polity — these independent public agencies such as the Administrative Court, the Constitution Court and the National Anti-Corruption Commission. From an opposite perspective, one measure of their effectiveness might be the degree to which they are loathed by corrupt politicians, arrogant civil servants and avaricious corporate despoilers of our environment.
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Mapping a path out of the political crisis
News, Published on 11/02/2014
» There is a growing consensus that in order to overcome the current transformation conflict affecting Thailand, the country must renegotiate the social contract. But with the two sides at each other’s throats and no neutral referee in sight, how can Thai society achieve such a herculean task?
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