Controlling the health menace of smoking isn’t easy, but Thai activists are determined to protect our youth. Thailand’s anti-smoking lobby has been one of the world’s most successful because of its ingenious multi-pronged strategy of attacking big tobacco companies with comprehensive tobacco-control programmes which focus on banning advertisements and promotions, raising prices, educating the public and limiting youth access.

REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE: East Asia Summit: one Asia or withering Asia?

A bad omen threatens to decrease the significance of the upcoming East Asia Summit (EAS) as China and Japan are still tussling over its modality. As the region’s two most powerful countries do not have complementary yin and yang positions, there is less of a chance that the summit will be all that successful.

BANGKOKIAN: PhD scholarship policy needs some serious rethinking

The Ananda Mahidol Foundation, established by His Majesty the King to promote higher education, is in danger of running out its capital fund of Bt600 million in eight years.

The development round that wasn’t

Whatever face-saving measures are taken, the meeting in Hong Kong in mid-December to wrap up the current Development Round of world trade talks will almost surely fail the only test that matters: