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Eroding freedoms
News, Postbag, Published on 25/10/2019
» In the last five years there appears to have been an insidious creep towards a police state.
No one's surprised
News, Postbag, Published on 07/10/2019
» Re: "Condo market slows further", (Business, Oct 4).
Nature's reforms
News, Postbag, Published on 06/10/2019
» Thank you Wasant Techawongtham for an enjoyably provocative read in "The girl who could just save the world", (Opinion, Oct 5). However, Wasant, we can agree Ms Thunberg's message is important while still disagreeing with some of her claims, and certainly with some of the suggested solutions.
FCCT is for journos
News, Postbag, Published on 07/09/2019
» Re: "Time to pipe down?", (PostBag, Sept 5).
Cops or con-artists?
News, Postbag, Published on 23/07/2019
» Regarding Sunday's editorial on tourist scams, it seems that the police just don't care, or are perhaps participants.
Not a class thing
News, Postbag, Published on 09/07/2019
» Re: "Class system to blame", (PostBag, July 6).
Good people bad laws
Postbag, Published on 07/07/2019
» Re: “Court to rule on PM’s eligibility”, (BP, July 6). While Jade Donavanik, the former adviser to the Constitution Drafting Committee’s comments that “the Constitutional Court ruling will be binding”, ring true, it is important to remember that such a legal precedent is subject to the caveat that applies to all laws: Merely being legal confers neither rightness nor justice.
Fed up with politics
News, Postbag, Published on 21/06/2019
» Re: "Same old politics stuck on repeat", (Commentary, June 20).
Revamp the military
News, Postbag, Published on 23/02/2019
» Let's briefly consider local geopolitics and the Thai military. Thailand needs China like it needs another coup. However, China needs Thailand for a variety of reasons. The US has had a longstanding favourable relationship with Thailand and is its most powerful ally.
Think of the tourists
News, Postbag, Published on 09/02/2019
» Surasak Glahan in his Feb 7 commentary, "Justice system still shackled by politics", hit the nail on the head. Thailand as we all know has a bad human rights record. I can only blame the people who are handling this case, which I am sorry to say will harm Thailand in the long run, with a loss in the number of tourists. I would like to know the number of Bahraini tourists versus Australian tourists coming to Thailand. I would dare say there are more Australians.