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Suffering silently
Oped, Postbag, Published on 05/03/2021
» Re: "Government spends its way into trouble", (Opinion, March 4). Kudos to Khun Chartchai Parasuk for this highly professional, brilliant article. Hopefully, it should be a wake-up call.
Climate of doubt
Oped, Postbag, Published on 24/02/2021
» Thank you Mr Setter for reminding those of us old enough to remember and informing a younger generation that climate science is not infallible.
A costly delay
Oped, Postbag, Published on 20/02/2021
» It is becoming increasingly clear that there will be no tourists arriving in numbers before the majority of Thai people are vaccinated. A country that depends on close to 20% of its GDP on travel and tourism should by now be right up there with Israel in terms of inoculations or at least at par with the UK to be able to open up this coming summer.
Tax e-cigarettes
Oped, Postbag, Published on 22/01/2021
» We can clearly see that making gambling illegal is not effective in stopping gambling among Thai people at all. A complete ban is considered a measure that is too extreme without taking into account the social context or the needs of the people in the country. Therefore, we see illegal gambling, illegal casinos or even the underground lottery everywhere.
Vaccine altruism?
Oped, Postbag, Published on 28/11/2020
» The National Vaccine Institute (NVI) will sign a 182-billion-baht contract with AstraZeneca for 26 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine, sufficient for 13 million people (BP, Nov 27). This equates to 7,000 baht per jab.
Loophole exposed
News, Postbag, Published on 16/11/2020
» Re: "Hungarian minister infects his diplomat" (BP, Nov 11, 2020).
The wrong time
Oped, Postbag, Published on 11/11/2020
» Karl Reichstetter is right in his Nov 9 letter "Now Thailand's turn".
Unwarranted charge
Oped, Postbag, Published on 07/11/2020
» After reading the forward vision of Bank of Thailand governor, Sethaput Suthiwart-Narueput, a few of us are a bit concerned. Is this a pretext of what's to come? Case and point: the Thai Military Bank has decided to engage in an "excessive fee" (for any tourist, businessman, employer, employee or expat) when making a withdrawal from an international overseas account via an ATM machine.
Stand up, 'People'
Oped, Postbag, Published on 05/09/2020
» Re: "Time to elect city governor", (Editorial, Sept 4).
Everyone's business
Oped, Postbag, Published on 22/08/2020
» Re: "PM readies for rally showdown", (BP, Aug 20).