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Ringing the bell for women's rights
News, Kesara Manchusree, Miwa Kato & Staffan Herrstrom, Published on 08/03/2018
» To mark International Women's Day today, stock exchanges around the world are holding a "Ring the Bell" event to raise awareness of women in business: the urgent need to improve gender equality and women's empowerment in the workplace.
Come to the party, PM
News, Postbag, Published on 08/03/2018
» Many of the 40 plus new political parties want Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to continue as PM, post-election. But some newbies want the post-election inter-party negotiations to be deadlocked to the point where the junta-selected and elected MPs can join to choose Gen Prayut as an "outsider" PM.
MeToo camp hits a wall in Russia
News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 09/03/2018
» The #MeToo movement has finally reached Russia. Unfortunately, it's sad and astonishing for the women involved and for anyone who supports them. Russia's current atmosphere is conducive to all sorts of power abuses, and the scandal in its parliament proves that nothing's about to change.
Poor need homes, not monuments
News, Mihir Sharma, Published on 14/03/2018
» Here in the City of London, you can step out of Bank underground station and walk a few hundred metres in any direction to see what Pritzker Prize-winning architects can do when they push themselves. At Bank intersection itself, breaking up the heavy imperial-era neoclassicism of Soane, Baker and Lutyens is James Stirling's Number One Poultry, whose postmodern curves softly echo the other buildings' grandiose lines. Stirling won the Pritzker, "architecture's Nobel Prize", in 1981; Number One Poultry, still controversial, is nevertheless now the youngest building to be officially protected, or "listed", by the British government.
Pigs at the trough
News, Postbag, Published on 17/03/2018
» Re: "Hollow promises", (PostBag, March 15). I share Burin Kantabutra's frustration over the lack of progress in dealing with entrenched graft and corruption in Thailand.
Time on their side
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 18/03/2018
» They took down the Interpol Red Notice to locate, arrest and hold for extradition Thailand's most infamous wilding child last week. Vorayuth "Boss" Yoovidhya is further off the hook than ever.
A new way to pay for infrastructure
News, Justin Yifu Lin & Håvard Halland & Yan Wang, Published on 20/03/2018
» Lawmakers in the US have introduced legislation that, if enacted, would create a new development finance institution (DFI) to replace the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. Unlike its predecessor, the new agency would be able to make equity investments, a reform that reflects growing global recognition that ownership stakes are an essential component of sustainable-development financing.
Taxing pets won't kill off rabies threat
News, Soonruth Bunyamanee, Published on 21/03/2018
» The death of a 14-year-old girl in Buri Ram from rabies, the sixth fatality caused by the disease this year, has set off alarm bells telling the authorities that it's time to get serious about managing stray cats and dogs as well as regulating pet owners.
US cannot win a trade war by itself
News, Michael Schuman, Published on 22/03/2018
» As US President Donald Trump prepares a wide-ranging package of tariffs and investment restrictions targeted at China, a trade war between the world's two most important economies looks unavoidable. On the face of it, the US might seem to have the leverage it needs to win. Since it runs a huge trade deficit with China, the Chinese have a lot more to lose.
The art of prediction - is it illusory?
News, Celia Hannon, Published on 26/03/2018
» Forecasting is a fool's errand, so why we do fallible humans persist in trying to peer into an uncertain future, especially when machines are outpacing us on so many other predictive tasks?