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Free pass for Premchai
News, Postbag, Published on 11/04/2018
» Re: 'Threat to justice', (Editorial, April 9).
Coining a catchy slogan
News, Postbag, Published on 08/04/2018
» Almost a year ago the disappearance of the memorial plaque of the 1932 Revolution was described in these pages as being both "hilarious and deeply sinister".
Pigs at the trough
News, Postbag, Published on 17/03/2018
» Re: "Hollow promises", (PostBag, March 15). I share Burin Kantabutra's frustration over the lack of progress in dealing with entrenched graft and corruption in Thailand.
NACC soft on graft?
News, Postbag, Published on 23/01/2018
» I am beginning to think that NACC stands for the "national association for the criminally corrupt".
Lighting the way
News, Postbag, Published on 27/12/2017
» The sad reality of all the road carnage in Thailand is that, even with strict traffic law enforcement and widespread public relations and education programmes, it will take at least a generation to change the driving habits of the current population.
Generals of the elite
News, Postbag, Published on 23/11/2017
» The Nov 19 editorial, "Anti-poverty drive needs political will", says it all.
Follow Buddha's wisdom
News, Postbag, Published on 28/05/2017
» In her May 25 article, "How our education sustains dictatorship", Sanitsuda Ekachai outlines clearly how the militarisation of Thai education harms not only education, infamously failing for decades, but also how the pernicious effects of the centralised command over young minds oozes out to pervade all of Thai society, to the great harm of society, politics and morals. The malaise does indeed start in the official Thai education hierarchy.
Foreign fiscal fiasco
News, Postbag, Published on 15/05/2017
» Re: "20-year plan draws out military rule", (BP, May 13).
Digital control freaks
News, Postbag, Published on 16/12/2016
» Using the single gateway to deal with lese majeste is akin to using a shotgun to kill a fly, and will put Thailand behind the rest of the world.
Democracy on trial
News, Postbag, Published on 12/07/2016
» Eric Bahrt in his letter, "Better late than never", (BP, July 10) demanded that I, among others, apologise for being a junta apologist and anti-democracy advocate. That is funny, allow me to explain why.