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    Can errant Trump save Asean-US ties?

    News, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 12/11/2019

    » The 35th Asean Summit and its related meetings ended last week with stronger Asean solidarity and centrality, thanks to President Donald Trump's absence and high-handed manner in responding to the 52-year Southeast Asian diplomatic process.

  • OPINION

    Copyright law lets big fish off

    News, Editorial, Published on 13/11/2019

    » A recent scam involving "copyright agents" making money out of a 15-year-old girl, whom they tricked into producing krathong floats featuring rights-protected San-X cartoon characters, tells just as much about our troubled copyright protection law as it does about disproportionate, ineffective law enforcement.

  • OPINION

    Is the Asean bloc under threat?

    News, Published on 13/11/2019

    » At the recent 35th Asean Summit and Related Summits held in Bangkok from Oct 31 to Nov 5, the international community witnessed evidence of rising instability in power relations between the regional players in Southeast Asia.

  • OPINION

    A win-win for nature and the economy

    News, Published on 13/11/2019

    » The Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year went to three visionary scientists for "creating a rechargeable world". Their works can help recharge the Thai economy too if the government does the right thing to support the lithium-ion industry.

  • OPINION

    Land saga a test of morals

    News, Editorial, Published on 14/11/2019

    » The recent land scandal involving the outspoken MP for Ratchaburi, Pareena Kraikupt, poses a major challenge to the principles of land reform for needy farmers.

  • OPINION

    Hun Sen learns how to fake democracy

    News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 14/11/2019

    » Cambodia may avoid trade sanctions from the EU and US if its government has learnt the art of faking a return to democracy and rule of law from Thailand, which has done its neighbour a huge favour by barring entry to its exiled opposition leaders.

  • OPINION

    Trump gamesmanship risks Asean ties

    News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 15/11/2019

    » Apart from India's withdrawal from the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, the other memorable outcome of the recent Asean Summit and 14th East Asia Summit was the second consecutive absence of US President Donald Trump.

  • OPINION

    Pareena saga a test of land reform resolve

    News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 15/11/2019

    » When Deputy Agriculture Minister Thamanat Prompow defended Pareena Kraikupt -- a Palang Pracharath Party member and MP for Ratchaburi who is being grilled in a high-profile land scandal -- by suggesting that she may escape forest encroachment charges because her family "had lived on the disputed plots prior to the enactment of land reforms", I could sense his triumph, as well as relief.

  • OPINION

    Tribalism fuels today's politics

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 15/11/2019

    » 'Homo economicus" is dead. Long live "homo tribuarius"!

  • OPINION

    Make local polls priority

    News, Editorial, Published on 15/11/2019

    » For a prime minister who came to power as a by-product of the March general election, Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha seemed to find it difficult to resist the temptation of using that poll to justify his legitimacy to rule during his recent mobile cabinet meeting trip. But when it comes to setting dates for local polls, he has remained noncommittal and ruled out the need to accelerate the electoral process, which has been frozen for more than five years since he staged the 2014 coup.

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