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Use satellite tech for farmers in crisis
Oped, Kamphol Pantakua, Published on 10/02/2021
» Ask any Thai rice farmer to describe government assistance when they are hit with natural disasters. Their answers will most likely be the same: Too little, too late.
Dear Santa: Please send $14 billion
Oped, Chartchai Parasuk, Published on 02/11/2023
» What Thailand needs is money, money -- and money. The government needs 560 billion baht to run its 10,000 baht cash handout programme next year, and the country needs (at least) 420 billion baht to prevent the 4th quarter economy from collapsing.
Women health workers hold key to ending polio
Oped, Atiya Aabroo, Published on 03/05/2023
» Anyone who witnesses a polio vaccination campaign in Pakistan will notice something remarkable: in most areas, the majority of health workers moving house to house to vaccinate children against this highly infectious paralytic disease are women.
Argentine economic miracle amid Covid
Oped, Joseph Stiglitz, Published on 14/01/2022
» Although Covid-19 has been hard on everyone, it has not been an “equal opportunity” disease. The virus poses a greater threat to those who are already in poor health, many of whom are concentrated in poor countries with weak public-health systems. Moreover, not every country can spend one-quarter of its GDP to protect its economy, as the United States did. Developing and emerging economies have faced hard financial and fiscal constraints. And because of vaccine nationalism (hoarding by rich countries), they have had to scrounge for whatever doses they can get.
Networking that puts judiciary at risk
Oped, Chairith Yonpiam, Published on 25/01/2025
» A callout by senior judges for the Supreme Court to scrap a study course, organised by the Judicial Training Institute, aimed at fostering connections between judicial authorities and those from other sectors, including senior business executives, has shed light on some of the problems facing study programmes in this country.
Rise and fall of participatory budgeting
Oped, Humberto Costa, Published on 24/04/2023
» One of the world's great democratic innovations is about to make a big comeback in the place where it was invented: my country, Brazil.
Will this tech revolution serve sustainability?
Oped, Victor Galaz, Published on 04/06/2021
» Silicon Valley leaders tell us that the Fourth Industrial Revolution will bring untold benefits. They say it is already underway and accelerating, powered by artificial intelligence and other technologies, and warn that we will be left eating dust if we don't get with the programme.
Choice of jabs needed
Oped, Editorial, Published on 10/05/2021
» There are no signs the Covid-19 pandemic will leave us any time soon. Thus, it is important for Thailand to stockpile vaccines and let the public choose their own vaccines.
Drop the forest plan
Oped, Editorial, Published on 14/07/2022
» The Royal Thai Army (RTA) probably expected to receive kudos from environmentalists and the public in general for its reforestation mission. It did not.
Teachers are undervalued
Oped, Editorial, Published on 21/11/2023
» Teachers' debt is a chronic problem which has dogged the Thai education system for several decades to the extent that it has affected the morale of many teachers and the quality of Thai education.