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    Our car-free days just token effort

    News, Editorial, Published on 22/09/2019

    » For another year, today's Bangkok Car Free Day, the local version of an annual awareness-raising event observed in cities across the world, has been reduced to a PR stunt by the city administration and central government.

  • OPINION

    Of lords, ladies and gentlemen

    News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 22/09/2019

    » Congratulations are in order to former Bangkok Post journalist Natalie Bennett who has been made a House of Lords peer and is now named Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle. Natalie, or rather Lady Bennett, who had been the leader of the Green Party for several years, was given this title in former prime minister Theresa May's resignation honours list last week.

  • OPINION

    PM fails to put oath debate to bed

    News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 23/09/2019

    » The Sept 18 parliamentary debate against Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha over his incomplete reciting of the oath of office is over. But the controversy lingers on as the opposition has refused to let go of the matter. This is because the prime minister did not himself clarify why he omitted to recite an important part of the oath as stipulated in the constitution but assigned his top legal expert, Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam, to act on his behalf.

  • OPINION

    Piyabutr plays House role by the book

    News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 23/09/2019

    » How thick does a book need to be to stop a bullet? Perhaps, I imagine, Piyabutr Saengkanokkul is asking himself that same question.

  • OPINION

    Warming up to draft's end

    News, Editorial, Published on 23/09/2019

    » Once a fierce opponent of ideas to abolish military conscription, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha recently signalled a possible change of heart -- or at least, a more open heart.

  • OPINION

    The perils of plastic

    Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 23/09/2019

    » Last week, I visited Wat Chak Daeng in the Phra Pradaeng district of Samut Prakan to make merit. Instead of donating cash, food or monk robes, I donated paper boxes, UHT (ultra-high temperature) boxes and a big bag fully loaded with single-use plastic bags that I had collected for two months.

  • OPINION

    Are Thai businesses prepared for a downturn?

    News, Published on 23/09/2019

    » Despite a long run of strong economic growth in Thailand and Southeast Asia, the next global recession will have serious effects here. It's a turbulent world, and Thailand still relies on exports to China, the US, Europe and elsewhere, as well as capital flows from abroad. True, Thailand weathered the global financial crisis a decade ago much better than many others did, but it still was hit hard, with GDP growth dropping from 5% in 2006 to negative 1% in 2009. Moreover, many of the traits that cushioned Thailand then offer less of a buffer today.

  • OPINION

    Prayut courts PR disaster as floods devastate Ubon

    News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 24/09/2019

    » Does Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha have communications strategists? If so, they should be fired after a week of non-stop miscommunications.

  • OPINION

    Appraising China's stance on the AOIP

    News, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 24/09/2019

    » It is not easy to decipher China's attitude on the Asean Outlook of the Indo-Pacific (AOIP), because very few Chinese leaders and scholars are willing to talk directly about it.

  • OPINION

    Govt evading climate truths

    News, Editorial, Published on 24/09/2019

    » On Sept 20, more than 200 young demonstrators stormed into the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry to demand government action on climate change.

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