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Open your eyes
News, Postbag, Published on 27/06/2019
» Re: "FFP must clarify", (PostBag, June 25). Does Vint Chavala seriously believe, or believe that anyone else believes, that Thailand needs the amazing excess of army generals living high off the nation? For what, exactly? The most conspicuous achievement of that extraordinary number of army generals has for many decades been to protect the existence of generals busily plotting political careers allied to unusual wealth, which many suspect to be the primary reason Thailand has been so afflicted by military coups against its form of democratic government with a constitutional monarchy.
Set in stone
News, Postbag, Published on 05/01/2019
» Re: "Government admits election delay", (BP, Jan 4).
Airline in distress
News, Published on 22/09/2018
» Re: "Govt prods THAI about plane buys", (BP, Sept 21).
Kindness goes long way
News, Postbag, Published on 13/07/2017
» Re: "A helping hand for our wasted food," (Commentary, July 12).
Perils of police reform
News, Postbag, Published on 08/07/2017
» I'm glad that PM Prayut Chan-o-cha is reforming the police at long last, but he shouldn't reinvent the wheel. In 2006, then-prime minister Gen Surayud Chulanont, former army chief and member of our beloved King Rama IX's Privy Council, appointed retired Pol Gen Vasit Dejkunjorn, former chief of police, to head a distinguished commission for this very purpose.