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Defence, not corruption
News, Postbag, Published on 03/02/2019
» Re: "Future Forward Party wants to 'reform' military", (BP, Feb 1).
Watch this space
News, Postbag, Published on 22/12/2018
» Politicians and political parties are claiming Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha is unable to solve Thailand's corruption problems by referring to his deputy, and the watch scandal. If this is set to be the new standard of intolerable corruption, Thailand is moving forward. But for that to happen, politicians and parties now heavily criticising Gen Prayut have to stick to the 25 watches norm also when in power. I am sceptical, especially with the new party that wants to move "forward" by moving backwards, returning to the old democracy that was not so much of a democracy.
Cool change needed
News, Postbag, Published on 27/09/2018
» I have noticed that the air conditioning on the MRT is wholly inadequate.
Agents of social chaos
Oped, Postbag, Published on 10/07/2018
» Re: “The scourge of fake news”, (Life, July 9). Fake and false news goes back to ancient history. Later examples include the German corpse factory myth of World War I, Orson Welles’ 1939 radio bluff about a “war of the worlds” and Saddam Hussein’s supposed weapons of mass destruction.
Let's enable change
News, Postbag, Published on 16/03/2018
» Re: "Wheelchair activist smashes door after BTS access row", (BP, March 13).
Hollow promises
News, Postbag, Published on 15/03/2018
» Most Thais see the ubiquitous rampant graft, but say that they have to accept this plague because they cannot improve things -- and so do nothing.
Many gates, no bars
Oped, Postbag, Published on 10/02/2018
» Let’s see now. First there was watchgate, then we had copgate and now we have poachgate. Will the gates ever stop? No. Because this is amazing Thailand and we all know the elites don’t do jail time.
Down the rabbit hole
Oped, Postbag, Published on 03/02/2018
» Help me, somebody, I think I must have fallen down a rabbit hole and found myself in a world as crazy as Alice did. In this strange, topsy-turvy world the people who ousted an elected government, an action usually considered more serious than sedition is now arresting protesters and dissidents for actions and speech inciting people to rebel against their government.
A paragon of virtues
News, Postbag, Published on 31/12/2017
» As Pliny the Younger noted, "Example [is] the surest method of instruction."
No news is bad news
News, Postbag, Published on 24/11/2017
» Re: "Prayut threatens media outlets with strict cyber law", (BP, Nov 22).