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Oped, Postbag, Published on 07/09/2024
» Re: "Seed bomb threat to forest ecology", (Editorial, Sept 2), "Hilltop plot seized after landslides", (BP, 2 Sept) & "Phuket Buddha site ordered closed due to landslide risks", (BP, Sept 3).
Oped, Postbag, Published on 12/06/2024
» Re: "Pita says court powerless to dissolve MFP", (BP, June 10) & "Move Forward case reveals autocracy", (Opinion, June 7).
News, Postbag, Published on 06/11/2022
» Re: "Casual dress allowed at college exams," (BP, Nov 5).
Oped, Postbag, Published on 12/12/2020
» Another news report states the prime minister says fighting corruption is his No.1 priority.
News, Postbag, Published on 14/09/2019
» Re: "Thamanat wins PM's backing", (BP, Sept 11). As a reformist, Prime Minister Pra-yut Chan-o-cha should quickly verify Deputy Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Capt Thamanat Prompow's claims that he didn't (a) plead guilty to charges of drug trafficking in Australia and (b) didn't serve a four-year jail sentence for his crime, thus disqualifying him from office.
News, Published on 28/07/2018
» Comparatively speaking, the conscripts/servants issue in the Thai armed forces is only adding to the military junta's declining image. Its continued existence only benefits a few thousand "generals", not the majority of the Thai armed forces or the country at large. In short, they are driving a car in reverse gear. It is clearly a conflict of interest, an important principle which should be tackled and utilised in the military junta's "reform policy".
News, Postbag, Published on 23/01/2018
» I am beginning to think that NACC stands for the "national association for the criminally corrupt".
News, Postbag, Published on 11/12/2017
» Re: "World Bank hails Thai development", (Business, Dec 8).
News, Postbag, Published on 01/07/2017
» The Thai military is staffed and equipped for a single purpose -- to repress its own people. General numbers are skewed relative to other ranks, the police and other military forces, suggesting the Thai military is structured and equipped to be a coup maker and government in waiting rather than a defence force.
News, Postbag, Published on 01/05/2017
» Finance Minister Apisak Tantivorawong, in lamenting a decline in foreign direct investment despite new Board of Investment incentives, asked, "maybe our incentives aren't generous enough compared with other countries or we might have a weak marketing strategy".