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  • NEWS

    Milestones

    News, Published on 21/01/2018

    » Sentenced: By the Criminal Court to 80 and a half years in prison, serial bomber Watana Pumret. The 63-year-old was most famously convicted of the Phramongkutklao Hospital bombing last year. So far, for four bombings and an explosive cache, Watana has received prison sentences of 111 years and six months plus fines of 1,475 baht. He has two other cases to go.

  • WORLD

    Life and death on the Dnieper River

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 28/05/2023

    » The thunder of artillery echoes night and day over the mighty Dnieper River as it winds its way through southern Ukraine. With Russian and Ukrainian forces squared off on opposite banks, fighters have replaced fishermen, surveillance drones circle overhead and mines line the marshy embankments.

  • OPINION

    Give Pita a chance

    News, Postbag, Published on 20/05/2023

    » Re: "Senators slow to warm to Pita's PM bid", (BP, May 17).

  • OPINION

    Chaos and confusion

    News, Postbag, Published on 13/08/2016

    » Why has our illustrious leader stated that the recent bombings were to "cause chaos and confusion", insinuating that it was the absent ex-prime ministers' followers who are to blame? This statement is in itself inflammatory, and can lead to chaos and confusion. Shooting from the lip again!

  • LIFE

    Charismatic Puth gives fans some joy amid tragedy

    Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 16/08/2016

    » While the series of bombings on Mother's Day last Friday brought down the mood of the country, singer-songwriter and hitmaker Charlie Puth, for the brief moment he performed that night, gave the Bangkok crowd a much-needed boost of joy and positivity.

  • BUSINESS

    Charter vote lifts set in good week for stocks

    Business, Published on 15/08/2016

    » Recap: Asian stock markets advanced last week, buoyed by a big gain in US jobs in July and a slowdown in the decline of Chinese producer prices. The Thai stock market rallied as investors' confidence in political stability improved after voters endorsed the draft constitution by a margin of 61% to 39% in the Aug 7 referendum. The SET was closed on Friday so there has been no market reaction yet to a series of deadly bombings that hit five southern provinces.

  • OPINION

    Serving up cruelty, a taste of 'Thainess'

    News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 20/08/2016

    » The debate on the meaning of "Thainess" always fills me with patriotism and stomach ache. After last week's bombings, the army chief warned us to look out for people who wore hats, glasses and carried backpacks, because "Thais don't do that". The general meant well -- that we should watch out for suspicious agents of terror -- but the way he framed it was a crass, militaristic way of monopolising the definition of something that is shifting, malleable, even undefinable.

  • OPINION

    Picasso's 'Guernica' still relevant today

    Oped, Published on 29/04/2023

    » This month marks the anniversary of one of the many atrocities of the last century carried out in the cause of nationalism. On Monday, April 26, 1937, less than a year after dissident Spanish generals launched a coup d'état against a democratically elected coalition government, German and Italian airplanes bombed Gernika, in the Basque Country of Spain.

  • THAILAND

    Tricky work on southern railway looms

    Online Reporters, Published on 21/05/2014

    » The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) is moving ahead with difficult maintenance and repair of its old southern railway tracks including some sections damaged by bombings last week.

  • OPINION

    Who becomes a terrorist?

    News, Matt Apuzzo, Published on 29/03/2016

    » The brothers who carried out suicide bombings in Brussels last week had long, violent criminal records and had been regarded internationally as potential terrorists. But in San Bernardino, California, last year, one of the attackers was a county health inspector who lived a life of apparent suburban normality.

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