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Tillerson's 5-hour trip to reset Thai-US ties
News, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 08/08/2017
» When US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson returns to Bangkok Tuesday for a five-hour visit, he will find a bruised but confident ally ready to reset the 185-year-old Thai-US relations. This 300-minute interlude should prove extremely significant in determining the future of Thai-US relations. Lest we forget, his trip precedes a scheduled two-day visit by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov starting tomorrow.
Case lost in translation
News, Editorial, Published on 27/10/2016
» At a glance, the postponement of a court trial for two suspects in connection with the deadly bombing at the Erawan shrine due to the lack of an interpreter sparks suspicion there may be foul play in the case which has been long delayed.
Forgers feel the heat
News, Editorial, Published on 26/07/2016
» Credit is due the Immigration Police Bureau (IPB) and its dynamic chief Nathathorn Prousoontorn for arresting one of the region's top forgery suspects. Abdullah Ghani Bhori, known as "Baboo" in certain quarters, is helping police investigate the dirty and dangerous business of fake travel documents, especially passports. After many years of paying lip service to this crime, it now appears authorities are taking it seriously. It is certainly time to remove the stain from Thailand being known as a "hub of passport forgers".
Tracking the forgers
News, Editorial, Published on 16/02/2016
» Police deserve kudos for their arrest last week of a long-wanted man accused of altering, making and selling counterfeit passports. The tale of a forger caught because of his love for take-home pizzas was worthy of a novel. More to the point, taking Hamid Reza Jafary to court is a major accomplishment. When arrested, police found 173 high-quality passports in his Chachoengsao shophouse. Diplomats said they would have fooled most immigration checkpoints in the world.
The big issue: Passports, please
Alan Dawson, Published on 14/02/2016
» All newspapers carried this big story of the week, with the <i>Bangkok Post</i> cutting immediately to the chase.
Women are slaves
News, Postbag, Published on 13/02/2016
» Re: “PM’s gender equality stance stuck in the past”, (Opinion, Feb 3).
Truth behind ID card row
News, Editorial, Published on 19/12/2015
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha’s idea about putting occupational and income information into ID cards was met with a public uproar — rightfully so considering its impracticality.However, there is a grain of truth in the hubbub on both sides. It is that a lot more should be done to make the ID card more useful to both its holders and policy makers.
Fake passports skyrocket as legal paths in EU perish for Syrians
News, Serene Assir, Published on 22/10/2015
» Ali, a Palestinian-Syrian banker desperate to reach the Netherlands, had to hide his surprise when he finally met a shadowy forger known as "The Whale" at an Arabic-style shisha cafe near Athens.
Speed kills
News, Published on 15/03/2014
» Re: "Elephant pile-up claims 6 lives, hurts 2" (BP, March 10). After finding out what transpired, reading between the lines the driver of the "white Mitsubishi Pajero" probably could not get out of the gate fast enough at 5am when the checkpoint opened up. It was likely still dark and the elephants could not be seen until it was too late.
Crime with no borders
News, Published on 11/03/2014
» Last Friday night at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, two men using stolen passports boarded a flight bound for Beijing. The cause of the presumed crash of the Malaysia Airlines flight is still undetermined, but the use of fraudulent passports raises strong suspicions of terrorism. Both passports were stolen in Thailand, once again focusing attention on this country's reputation as a world centre of forged, fake and counterfeit travel documents.