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A closer look at Bangkok's blueprint

Sat, 25 May 2013 1:00:00

The latest city plan targets transport and green space as the means to improve residents' quality of life, explains deputy planning chief Panyapas Nopphun

Long way to go before Indonesia sees rail revival

Sat, 25 May 2013 1:00:00

If Ignasius Jonan, the youthful boss of the state-owned Kereta API national railway, has his way, Indonesia will soon see the rebirth of the golden age of rail, with trains replacing many of the trucks carrying freight across populous Java.

Traditional cultures offer lessons for wasteful world

Sat, 25 May 2013 1:00:00

From condensing the meat of a whole cow to the size of a human fist, to preserving seabirds in sealskins, there are hundreds of ways in which traditional cultures can teach the wasteful developed world how to preserve and conserve one of our most-precious yet most-squandered resources: food.

Looking forward with new hope in Malaysia

Sat, 25 May 2013 1:00:00

"What are you looking forward to?"

World's tallest structure to have a down-to-earth purpose

Sat, 25 May 2013 1:00:00

China is set to host the planet's highest building and at the same time offer a window on the future

Tourism and trash in Pattaya

Sat, 25 May 2013 1:00:00

The fairly new Second Road in Jomtien has become a garbage dump. Many of the tour buses park there at night and pick up the tourists next day. That's great.

Government is out of court

Sat, 25 May 2013 1:00:00

The Constitution Court is the latest hate-object of the demagogue. First it was the yellow shirts on whom he set the dogs of war. Then it was Abhisit as prime minister.

Free tablets, but exam scams will cost our children their futures

Sat, 25 May 2013 1:00:00

The Education Ministry recently passed allegations of fraud involving the examination papers for assistant teachers to the Department of Special Investigation. The move came after it was found that several hundred candidates had passed the examination for the position of assistant teacher with Einstein-IQ-level scores. It was alleged that some of the candidates had paid Bt300,000 to gain access to the examination papers beforehand. As a result, the results in some provinces have been declared invalid.

Obama, Xi set to build rapport at retreat

Sat, 25 May 2013 1:00:00

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his United States counterpart Barack Obama are set to hold their first-ever retreat next month in California, in an effort to build personal ties.

What to do when a human life is as cheap as a new T-shirt

Fri, 24 May 2013 1:00:00

"This is not the first time girls have been burned alive in the city. Every week I must learn of the untimely death of one of my sister workers. Every year thousands of us are maimed. The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death," Rose Schneiderman, a prominent socialist and union activist, said in a speech at the memorial meeting held in the Metropolitan Opera House on April 2, 1911, days after the March 25, 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City.

Tibetan schools: Preserving socio-linguistic ties that bind

Fri, 24 May 2013 1:00:00

On March 27, 2006, the Dalai Lama addressed a throng of followers in Dharamsala about a topic very near to his heart: the part that education plays in bolstering Tibet's endangered cultural identity.

Praise for Stephff's rib-ticklers

Fri, 24 May 2013 1:00:00

For a while now, I have been reading Stephff's latest series of cartoons in The Nation ("You know you've been in Thailand too long when").

Pakistan reaches milestone on rocky road to democracy

Fri, 24 May 2013 1:00:00

The people have spoken; now PM Sharif must steer country through interference from the military, insurgents and the United States

Taiwan must contemplate meaning of latest food scare

Fri, 24 May 2013 1:00:00

Food safety has again become a major concern after chemical-tainted starch was found in a wide range of food products. It is likely not an accident that the starch was tainted with maleic acid, but yet another alleged case of rogue businesses adding toxic stuff to their products in order to lower costs.

Facing the music

Fri, 24 May 2013 1:00:00

Re: "It's time for Thaksin to respect the rule of law: senior Democrats", Politics, May 21.

Lee Kuan Yew would never survive Thailand

Fri, 24 May 2013 1:00:00

Re: "Can we learn from the success of Singapore?", Editorial, May 22.

No double standards in UN checking judicial system

Fri, 24 May 2013 1:00:00

I have no problem with Deputy PM Chalerm's wanting the Justice Ministry to report possible civil- and political-rights violations in the Supreme Court's trying of Thaksin to a UN human rights panel. As Chalerm put it, "I wonder [if the trial] was in line with international legal proceedings and human-rights principles."

Why are they talking about an early election?

Thu, 23 May 2013 1:00:00

Political pundits seem to have come to the conclusion that the ruling Pheu Thai Party is gunning for an early election, perhaps before the end of the year, or even earlier.

Neutral Asean members can do more on South China Sea issues

Thu, 23 May 2013 1:00:00

Clues about the character of the new Chinese leadership are emerging from its interactions with members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean). Following the regional group's latest summit in Brunei, China's new foreign minister, Wang Yi, visited the region for the first time. Ties are cooperative on many fronts but the South China Sea remains the hot issue that is colouring the overall relationship.

The never-ending rape of the Cameron highlands

Thu, 23 May 2013 1:00:00

There is none so blind, as he who will not see. The hills of the Camerons are dying. Nature is crying out in anguish. And still, there are those who cannot, and will not, see the problem staring them in the face.