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Future is murky
News, Postbag, Published on 04/12/2015
» Re: “Let’s do away with climate hypocrisy”, (Opinion, Dec 3). Yes, I totally agree.
Foreign lesion
News, Postbag, Published on 03/12/2015
» Re: “Foreigners ineligible”, (PostBag, Nov 28). While it is at least admirable that the CEO of the mass transit system wrote to clarify the policy regarding the use of the senior ticket on the MRT/BTS (or whichever he represents), I would appreciate knowing the rationale and the litmus test for someone to qualify. I have lived in Thailand for five and a half years (and have been over 60 all that time), I have a retirement visa, a Thai driver’s licence, I own (in my wife’s name, of course) a house and a car.
BTS condones double pricing
News, Postbag, Published on 29/11/2015
» Re: “Foreigners ineligible” (PostBag, Nov 28).
More maturity needed
News, Postbag, Published on 28/11/2015
» Re: “Western folly in Middle East quagmire”, (Opinion, Nov 27).
Busted buses
News, Postbag, Published on 21/11/2015
» I can only laugh at the so-called “landmark” Chao Phraya river embankment project which seeks to blitz through the many concerns of residents and the environmental impact advisers who are clearly against even the principle of such a sweeping development.
Let's not generalise
News, Postbag, Published on 20/11/2015
» Mr Wilcox in his Nov 19 letter seems to put great effort into convincing us that terrorists who proclaim themselves to be Muslims are thereby representative of Islam as a whole. Using the same logic, or rather generalisation, all Catholics are homosexual paedophiles, Buddhist monks are purveyors of hate and violence and the Jewish people are murderous Zionist extremists, etc, etc, etc. It simply isn’t true. So I agree. It really is time to get real.
Scams all around
News, Postbag, Published on 18/11/2015
» William Boyd (PostBag, Nov 17) is right to complain about being scammed by BTS staff. However when he states, “I am not Thai, but I am a human being” this is true only some of the time in Thailand.
Bad business at BTS
News, Postbag, Published on 17/11/2015
» On Nov 15 at 8.30am, as I exited BTS Asoke on my way to church, a woman yelled at me, “Are you Thai?” When I replied no, she demanded to see my passport. I showed her my Thai driving licence, as I do not carry my passport with me. She then rudely snatched my BTS ticket from my hand. I tried to get it back and she called security and a supervisor.
Web grinds to a halt
News, Postbag, Published on 24/10/2015
» Just recently all foreign websites have become incredibly slow in Rayong. It is not possible any more to watch a news video on the website of my European newspaper and streaming coverage of the stock exchange is also lagging. Is the internet not workable any more for foreigners? How can a foreign company work here?
Making a smart move
News, Postbag, Published on 15/08/2015
» The Office of Basic Education Commission (Obec) decided to introduce the Smart Classrooms project to replace the tablet PC project for students which was scrapped by the National Council for Peace and Order. The 1.17-billion-baht leftover budget, which was earlier earmarked to procure tablets for Mathayom 1 students in the North and Northeast, would be shifted and will be complemented by 3 billion baht from the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology.