Showing 111 - 120 of 1,603
Tax cuts feed China's consumption
News, Christopher Balding, Published on 22/06/2018
» It's tempting to view China's changes to the personal and corporate tax code in the context of US trade tensions. The reforms are really aimed more at Beijing's concerns about competitiveness and economic rebalancing, and ultimately the creation of a "moderately prosperous society".
The art of the people
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 23/06/2018
» To mark the 1932 revolution, a crucial event in Thailand's modern history when a group of young soldiers and civilians brought about political transformation from absolute to constitutional monarchy, academic Chatri Prakitnontakan is putting together an exhibition, "Revolutionary Things", where he, together with fellow scholar Kittima Chareeprasit, will display rare objects relating to the historic change and reconceptualise them.
It will be tough at the top
News, Published on 23/06/2018
» The next Pheu Thai Party leader will carry on his or her shoulders some of the heaviest burdens any of their predecessors have had to endure -- boosting the morale of party members and stemming the outflow of defectors.
Killer app for humanity
News, Published on 30/06/2018
» Re: "Time to embrace the future", (BP, June 25).
Mexico gets its very own Trump
News, Jorge G Castañeda, Published on 04/07/2018
» US President Donald Trump has been the world's worst headache for the past 18 months, and arguably no country has suffered more than Mexico. Of the three main contenders in Mexico's just-completed presidential election, none was as ill-prepared as the winner, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador -- Amlo, as he is known -- to manage the bully in the White House. Nonetheless, the Mexican people have chosen him, and he will have to deal with Mr Trump for much (if not all) of his six years in office.
Is Asia a rising star or a poster child for disaster?
News, Janice Ian Manlutac, Published on 07/07/2018
» Emerging Asia, which covers India, China, and Southeast Asia, will be revelling in an economic growth rate of 6.3% annually from 2018 to 2022, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). But there's a hitch: Asia is also waist-deep in alarming projections of deaths, damage to livelihoods and property, and worsening inequality because of disasters and climate change. Asia's robust economic growth is not underwritten.
BTS fails to communicate
News, Editorial, Published on 09/07/2018
» The BTS Skytrain has gone off the rails. Not literally, thank goodness, but in the past two weeks this vital travel line has failed the public and shamed itself. It has stranded tens of thousands of its own customers, and blocked and inconvenienced hundreds of thousands of others. There is some blame to share, but it is inescapable that the spotlight should fall on the Skytrain operator Bangkok Mass Transit System Plc (BTSC).
Pyongyang’s threats remain in South Korea
Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 10/07/2018
» In summertime, Gangnam district of the South Korean capital is the place to go to observe the country’s dynamism and vibrancy. It is colourful and full of youthful energy. However, when you start casual conversations with youngsters here, immediately a different mood prevails.
China's Silk Road isn't so smooth
News, Mihir Sharma, Published on 12/07/2018
» You may not have noticed, what with the outbreak of trade war with the US and all, but China's economic diplomacy has had a bad few weeks. The country's flagship Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is dealing with ever-greater resistance, slowing a momentum that once seemed unstoppable. In fact, I'd argue that the BRI is stalled.
No signs of regret for jobs poorly done
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 12/07/2018
» As one deputy leader, who runs the government, has given an unconvincing and feeble defence about him taking a nap at work, another deputy, who runs the Royal Thai Police, has pursued a retaliatory lawsuit against a lawyer who dared to bring up a case of his office's incompetency which wrongly sent her client to jail.