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Dems can do better
Postbag, Published on 28/09/2025
» Re: "Can Abhisit help the ailing Democrats?" (Opinion, Sept 22).
Can Abhisit help the ailing Democrats?
Oped, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 22/09/2025
» Can Abhisit Vejjajiva, former prime minister and four-time former leader of the Democrat Party, Thailand's oldest political party who is reported to be keen to return to politics, save the Democrat Party from almost certain electoral doom? No one dares to bet.
Time to return artefacts
Oped, Editorial, Published on 10/07/2025
» The Culture Ministry does not need to review a pledge to return 20 ancient artefacts under its custody to Cambodia. Instead, the repatriation, as a long-overdue promise, should be completed without further delay.
Airport addiction
Postbag, Published on 07/06/2025
» Re: "PM wants airport smoking areas 'to meet standards'", (BP, June 5).
Absence far too much
Oped, Editorial, Published on 21/12/2024
» Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has missed another general House session in which she was supposed to tell the public how her government was handling national problems.
Public trust key in Koh Kut challenge
Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 19/11/2024
» Recently, the Paetongtarn Shinawatra government and her praetorian guards have been up in arms, defending their position on the 2001 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Thailand and Cambodia. She has said that the government will negotiate with Phnom Penh and will soon establish a joint technical committee to do just that.
Speed up border talks
News, Editorial, Published on 11/11/2024
» The controversy surrounding the 2001 memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the overlapping maritime claims in the Gulf of Thailand between Thailand and Cambodia has resurfaced, as the Pheu Thai administration seeks to restart talks with Phnom Penh in a bid to extract the area's natural resources.
Deck reshuffle carries risks for Thaksin
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 02/09/2024
» It was a classic case of killing two birds with one stone. That was the incorporation of the Democrats into the Pheu Thai-led coalition to substitute for the fragmented Palang Pracharath Party.
A perfectly British public paradox
Roger Crutchley, Published on 14/07/2024
» Much has been made of the "working class" background of the newly-elected government in the UK and how very few of Sir Keir Starmer's Cabinet attended posh "public schools". This brings us to one of the paradoxes of British and particularly English culture. The institutions which are called "public schools" in England are anything but public and are actually elite private fee-paying institutions.