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Making Southeast Asia resilient to climate change
News, Published on 26/01/2017
» In the south of Thailand and on the border with Malaysia, heavy downpours on what historically have been drier months is flooding towns. Heavy rainfall is also inundating a northern city on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. If governments in these localities and elsewhere in vulnerable Southeast Asia do not start acting now, many vulnerable populations in the region will continue to endure significant impacts to people's lives and livelihoods. These climate change-induced impacts are not limited to heavy downpours. Heat waves, prolonged drought, and coastal flooding due to rising sea levels are other climate impacts that are fast becoming the new normal.
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The United States' non-stop pivot to Asia
News, Lurong Chen, Published on 26/01/2017
» The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), an initiative of former US president Barack Obama, is stranded, but the United States' (US) "pivot to Asia" is not. For the foreseeable future, the Asia–Pacific relationship will remain an American foreign policy priority.
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A Cold War thriller
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 26/01/2017
» The time was when visiting the USSR was difficult and leaving it impossible. Lenin and Stalin had built the ideal state and close contact with the outside world would only contaminate it. Until Hitler offered a deal they couldn't refuse -- to slice up Poland between them.
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Lacking common sense
News, Postbag, Published on 26/01/2017
» Re: "679 schools fail to meet standards", (BP, Jan 25).
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Understanding China's banks
Life, Chris Baker, Published on 26/01/2017
» Every couple of years now, a book appears predicting the imminent crisis, breakdown, collapse or disintegration of China. The professor Cassandra touting a recent example passed through Bangkok last week. Among such works there is a subset that focuses on finance, especially banking. These books and articles argue that China's banks are inefficient because of government control; that they are racking up debt, much of which is hidden; and that, unless they are quickly privatised, they will be the spark for the aforesaid crisis, breakdown, collapse, or disintegration. In the last month, I have twice been treated to this argument first-hand, once from an American and once from a Japanese.
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Jackie Chan goes yoga
Life, Kanin Srimaneekulroj, Published on 26/01/2017
» With over 200 films under his belt dating back to the 1960s, Jackie Chan needs no introduction. The popular stuntman, director and actor -- whose long career recently earned him an honorary Oscar for his "extraordinary achievements in film" on Nov 12 last year from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the first Chinese in history to receive the award -- is back with his latest film, Kung Fu Yoga, a Chinese-Indian production set for Thailand release today.
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Acer eyes new technologies in digital era
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 26/01/2017
» Acer Inc, the world's fourth-largest computer maker, is tapping into emerging technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT) and virtual reality to connect digital devices to the internet.
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Ethical Leadership at Thai Nakorn Patana (part one)
Business, Sorayuth Vathanavisuth, Published on 26/01/2017
» 'I oversee overseas businesses, and I apply many ethical principles in my work whenever I have the opportunity to talk with the local team, and not only with the management group, regardless of what staff levels are involved," says Supachai Verapuchong, deputy managing director of Thai Nakorn Patana Co, a major producer of over-the-counter pharmaceuticals such as Antacil, Sara and Tiffy.
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America first, and Trump unleashed
News, Philip J Cunningham, Published on 26/01/2017
» The Trump administration introduced itself to the nation and the world with a bellicose roar of "America first" and some rather petty falsehoods, establishing a strident, truculent tone.
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It's a dog's life
Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 26/01/2017
» Dogs are man's best friend and the proof of this is in the "From Khun Thong Boran To Khun Thong Daeng: Dogs Are Man's True Friends For Over 3,000 Years" exhibition, being held until Sunday at Itsarawinitchai Throne Hall at the National Museum Bangkok.
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