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Marina madness
Oped, Postbag, Published on 09/04/2024
» Re: "Samui cruise terminal gets govt support", (BP, April 8).
Think of the people
News, Published on 10/04/2023
» Re: "Pheu Thai talks up its B10k cash giveaway," (BP, April 8) & "Cash handouts spark concern," (BP, April 7).
Berry-picking woes
Oped, Postbag, Published on 22/10/2022
» Re: "Slim pickings for Thais on foreign soil", (BP, Oct 17).
Favourite phrase
Oped, Postbag, Published on 26/08/2022
» Re: "Lop-sided justice", (PostBag, Aug 23).
Dying to help
Oped, Postbag, Published on 22/04/2022
» Re: "One killed as rival rescue services clash", (BP, April 19).
Moral conundrum
Oped, Postbag, Published on 15/01/2022
» Re: "Bill on media council gets cabinet nod," (BP, Jan 13). When we read in "Bill on media council gets cabinet nod" that "the exercise of media freedoms must not infringe on social mores", all who value good public morals will be deeply concerned. This must be so since being a social mores never has and cannot of itself guarantee that any belief, custom, or attitude is morally good.
Bureaucracy still baffles
News, Published on 25/07/2021
» All the requirements of bureaucracy in this country have not changed in more than 100 years.
Wishful thinking
News, Postbag, Published on 25/05/2021
» Re: "Now not the time for 'vaccine politics", (BP, May 22).
Mass testing best
News, Postbag, Published on 21/03/2020
» The most effective and cheapest way of controlling the Covid-19 pandemic will be to conduct mass testing of the population, as urged by eminent French infectious diseases expert Dr Didier Raoult. He has pointed out that cheaply mass produced testing equipment is already available and is being used effectively in South Korea. Countries, including Thailand, should build up this mass testing capability as fast as it can and test as many people as possible. That way it will be possible to isolate only those who test positive and it also makes it possible to treat those who start showing symptoms early which boosts the chance of a favourable outcome for them. This will be far more effective than locking down entire populations of people who are not infected and causing a massive economic dislocation in the process. In Thailand's case, it may cost US$325 million (10.5 billion baht) to test the entire population, but that would be a drop in the bucket compared to the $8 billion cost of a 5% decline in GDP.