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The father of modern Thailand
News, Postbag, Published on 27/05/2018
» Thai culture is ancient and one can see evidence of its beautiful bronze-age civilisation in Ban Chiang, near Udon Thani.
Taking turns at the trough
News, Postbag, Published on 09/05/2018
» Re: "Protesters pledge coup anniversary march", (BP, May 6).
No respect for trees
Oped, Postbag, Published on 01/05/2018
» Re: "New Mahakan Fort saga beckons", (Editorial, April 29). What in the world is in the heads of authorities at the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, who appear hell-bent on destroying natural treasures in the form of big trees that would be the envy of park planners and managers everywhere?
Beggaring belief
News, Postbag, Published on 21/04/2018
» Re: "Graft gobbling up our dream of democracy", (Opinion, April 20).
War on drugs
News, Postbag, Published on 10/04/2018
» Re: "11 drug plants 'churn out 20m pills a day,"' (BP, April 9).
Deaths not a fluke
News, Postbag, Published on 06/04/2018
» Some weeks ago I was taken ill with abdominal pain, constant vomiting and diarrhoea, so my wife took me to a hospital in Khon Kaen where, after 24 hours, I was diagnosed with liver flukes.
Prayut's stacked deck
News, Postbag, Published on 04/04/2018
» Re: "Abhisit shuns Prayut supporters", (BP, April 2).
Will Premchai show?
News, Postbag, Published on 14/03/2018
» In the March 13 online news story, "Tycoon must report to cops", the statement by police officers gave an impression that accused leopard poacher Premchai Karnasuta must appear for questioning Wednesday -- or else.
When values plummet
News, Postbag, Published on 02/03/2018
» The raison d'etre for the coup four years ago was to root out corruption. I think only the most gullible fell for that ploy to wrest power from a democratically elected government. I suppose that the wealthy and well-connected were getting nervous to see their position and privileges being whittled away and threatened by a government supported by "red buffaloes" from the North, and getting afraid of no longer being first in the queue to receive the fruits of corruption.
There's devotion
Oped, Postbag, Published on 11/02/2018
» Re: “Ex-park staffer ‘aided hunting group’,” (BP, Feb 10). Not only the defence on the 25 “borrowed” wristwatches worth 39.5 million baht (“NACC vows to wrap up Prawit probe”, BP, Feb 10) challenges common decency of logic but your latest news of the deputy police chief considering charging Wichien Chinnawong, chief of the Western Thungyai Wildlife Sanctuary, for not having collected admission fees from the influential tycoon has given me a mixed feeling of either to laugh or cry.