Archive for the 'World Affairs' Category
That may seem like a silly question. Surely everyone knows that we need to begin to develop renewable energy solutions sooner, rather than later. Our current energy policies are doing a number on the planet’s ecological systems. Increasing pollution in the air and the seas, environmental impacts like oil spills and global warming are all, [...]
December 2nd, 2008 | Posted in World Affairs | No Comments
The government adapted strict monetary and fiscal policies to control the rate of inflation during this period. Rigid monetary policies were used to limit credit expansion in the private sector. The fiscal policies were mostly the levying of import and export taxes. The export taxes were imposed on some commodities, such as rice and sugar, [...]
November 22nd, 2008 | Posted in World Affairs | No Comments
The First National Economic Development Plan continually emphasized development in Thailand. The Second National Economic Development Plan continually emphasized the development of infrastructure in such areas as communication and transportation. The Third Plan was named, the National Economic Development Plan, as it combined social economic development along with economic development in efforts to improve the [...]
November 21st, 2008 | Posted in World Affairs | No Comments
The Second Plan (1967-1971): The Foundation of the Infrastructure
The Thai economy was now in a new era of development since the initiation of the First Plan. Toward the end of the First Plan. Toward the end of the First Plan. Thailand had an increase in political conflict. Both internally and externally. These conflicts led to [...]
November 21st, 2008 | Posted in World Affairs | No Comments
Economic Background for Investment in Thailand
Until quite recently, Thailand had a reputation for being primarily a country which relied heavily on commodity exports, it used to be the world’s largest rice exporter.
However, this is no longer true, the agricultural exports used to represent more than 40 percent of the country’s export in the mid-80s. Now [...]
November 21st, 2008 | Posted in World Affairs | No Comments
Why is the U.S. the most loved and the most hated country in the world at the same time?
It is the country that people love to hate because of its wealth, power, kindness and resilient spirit. Although the United States of America is often criticized, when there is a problem, they are usually the ones [...]
November 13th, 2008 | Posted in World Affairs | No Comments
For decades the people and government of the U.S.A. have worried and obsessed over occupation or disaster brought on from the outside. The Cold War was all about the fear of annihilation by the Communists and Russia (the Soviet Union). We have so obsessed over that fear that we often forget the truth behind the [...]
November 12th, 2008 | Posted in World Affairs | No Comments
Benji, the computer entity, was guiding the exploration of Saturn’s moons by Capt. Marcos and his team of spatons (space robots) with his space ship ‘Napolean.’
Napoleon was roving about ‘Find 68’ mapping the region for radio activity carefully. It was not long before Capt. Marco sent message to Benji that the radio active (RA) source [...]
November 8th, 2008 | Posted in World Affairs | No Comments
The amount of warning time a tsunami warning system can provide depends on the distance between your location and the location of the undersea event. A tsunami can travel 500 to 600 mph in deep water, slowing as it approaches shore. If the undersea earthquake that starts the tsunami is 500 miles offshore [...]
November 7th, 2008 | Posted in World Affairs | No Comments
It is a matter of record that both President Dryden of the Prudential and President Knapp of the Metropolitan were close students of the Prudential of London. Both went to London and witnessed the functioning of the business at first hand. In fact, Mr. Knapp and the Metropolitan’s Attorney, Stewart L. Woodford, and an expert [...]
November 7th, 2008 | Posted in World Affairs | No Comments