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    Mattel's and the Chinese cyber-thieves

    News, Published on 30/03/2016

    » The email seemed unremarkable: a routine request by Mattel Inc's chief executive for a new vendor payment to China.

  • OPINION

    The sexual politics of 2016 and redefining masculinity

    News, David Brooks, Published on 30/03/2016

    » In the middle of the Civil War, a colonel named Robert McAllister from the 11th Regiment of New Jersey tried to improve the moral fibre of his men. A Presbyterian railroad contractor in private life, he lobbied and preached against profanity, drinking, prostitution and gambling. Some of the line officers in the regiment, from less genteel backgrounds, rebelled.

  • OPINION

    Is promenade project really for all of us?

    News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 30/03/2016

    » Now that King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) and Khon Kaen University (KKU) have officially taken charge of the feasibility study for the controversial Chao Phraya promenade project, I can only hope the project is now in the right hands.

  • OPINION

    Land rights the key to forest conservation

    News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 30/03/2016

    » Agro-giant CP has finally admitted to "being part" of deforestation in the mountainous North and has promised to stop buying corn grown in forest areas. So the forest should soon regain its health and the conglomerate will be off the hook, right? Not so fast.

  • OPINION

    Cures for the ageing nation

    News, Editorial, Published on 30/03/2016

    » The Office of the Civil Service Commission deserves quite some credit for seizing on, and pushing, an important issue of the day. Instead of the usual hand-wringing and questions over Thailand's rapidly escalating problem of ageing, members have come up with a proposal. It is expected they will ask the cabinet for permission to push back the retirement age of all civil servants from 60 to 65.

  • OPINION

    No excuse for delays in cases against spoilt rich kids

    Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 30/03/2016

    » Thanks to the netizens whose critical comments in the social media have put pressure on the police top brass to order a review of a fatal road accident on March 13 in Ayutthaya where two post-graduate students were killed when their car caught fire after it was rammed from behind by a speeding Mercedes-Benz sports car driven by Janepob Veeraporn, a luxury car dealer.

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