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Toeing state line no way to ensure reform
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 21/10/2015
» When top-down control is holding the country back on all fronts, reform is only possible when state abuse can be contained by civil society, grassroots groups and the media.
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Peace process needs to be inclusive
News, Nehginpao Kipgen, Published on 21/10/2015
» Myanmar has witnessed two historic agreements in the past 68 years: the Panglong Agreement (PA) of 1947 and the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) of 2015. Both are important and significant agreements, especially concerning inter-ethnic relations and national reconciliation.
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Poverty is more than a lack of money
News, Angus Deaton, Published on 21/10/2015
» I am thrilled to have been awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. I am even more thrilled that the Nobel committee highlighted the work that my collaborators and I have done on India.
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'Seize the moment' with carbon pricing
News, Published on 21/10/2015
» In just six weeks, world leaders will meet in Paris to negotiate a new global climate-change agreement. To date, 150 countries have submitted plans detailing how they will move their economies along a more resilient low-carbon trajectory. These plans represent the first generation of investments to be made in order to build a competitive future without the dangerous levels of carbon-dioxide emissions that are now driving global warming.
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Scholarships mustn't falter
News, Editorial, Published on 21/10/2015
» The Education Minister, Gen Dapong Ratanasuwan, deserves credit for raising issues about a faltering scholarship programme. "One District, One Scholarship", inevitably known as Odos, is an excellent idea. Since its inception, however, it has run into problems. Its first years had multiple faults, so many that the military government of 2006 axed it. The Yingluck government revived Odos but again overburdened it with bureaucracy and red tape. There seems a good chance Gen Dapong will get it on the right track.
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Respecting the monkhood
Life, Patcharawalai Sanyanusin, Published on 21/10/2015
» Everyone knows that religion is a delicate subject but when an issue concerning Buddhism arises, not many of us look at it with sensitivity. The case in point is the controversy over the movie Arbat (which is now called Arpat), which threw a lot of Thai Buddhists into heated debate for weeks after the release of its trailer last month.
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Time is running out on the US fracking industry
News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 21/10/2015
» The US shale oil industry is in retreat, but it will largely survive next year, and its production decline will not be catastrophic enough for oil prices to shoot up. Scarier things probably await US frackers in 2017.
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