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Sangha Council's rigid control must ease
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 19/01/2017
» The newly amended Sangha Act may effectively put an end to the supreme patriarch nomination row, but it cannot restore public faith in the corruption-ridden clergy. Nor can it stop the popularity of the controversial Dhammakaya temple.
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The need for justice to be accountable
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 19/01/2017
» Wrongfully imprisoned? Rejected bail unreasonably? Ask a question and risk being held in contempt of court? That's the universal perception inherited by a majority of Thais, including the media. It discourages us from commenting on any particular questionable court rulings.
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Prepare for Trump's worst
News, Editorial, Published on 19/01/2017
» In only a matter of hours, tycoon-turned-politician Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States of America. It is quite safe to say that the world will be watching the moment with anxiety. More anxious will be Asian countries which have economies that depend greatly on the vast US market.
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The RCEP has become more relevant than ever
News, Published on 19/01/2017
» When President-elect Donald Trump called the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) a "disaster" and vowed to pull out of the Agreement as soon as he took office, the international media almost instantaneously pronounced the TPP dead. And in the next breadth, they shifted their focus to the less controversial Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), calling it "China-led" and pitching it as the alternative to the TPP. The impression was that as one was US-led and the other China-led, they must necessarily be competing agreements. Not so.
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Time to adopt the Buffett proposal
News, Published on 19/01/2017
» President-elect Trump's criticism of our trading relationship with China, has produced predictable reactions. Economists warn against "protectionism" and the dangers of trade wars. Alarmed diplomats remind us of the American interest in maintaining good relations with China to deal with such matters as North Korea's threatening behaviour.
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