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Jab move 'baffling'
News, Postbag, Published on 22/02/2021
» Re: "Thailand again defends decision not to join jab alliance", (BP, Feb 15).
NACC takes the lead
Oped, Postbag, Published on 12/02/2021
» The NACC is to be highly praised for its courage in finding Palang Pracharath Party MP Pareena Kraikupt guilty of extreme ethical misconduct for having a 771-rai poultry farm in a national forest (BP, Feb 11).
Just avoid the 'circus'
News, Postbag, Published on 07/02/2021
» I started my morning by reading your editorial on yet another police corruption situation and the supposed inability of the deputy prime minister to enforce the law with regard to Thailand's largest criminal network, the police. I was left just shaking my head at the admission that the government is unable or maybe unwilling to do its job.
Ashes of democracy
Oped, Postbag, Published on 06/02/2021
» Re: "Myanmar coup sparks Asean concern", (Opinion, Feb 5).
Govt's muddled priorities
News, Postbag, Published on 31/01/2021
» Re: "Time to open schools", (Opinion Jan.29).
Share the blame
Oped, Postbag, Published on 30/01/2021
» Re: "Stipend fiasco reveals flaws", (Editorial, Jan 28). Many elderly Thais inadvertently received monthly living allowances for years, sometimes decades, without being aware that they were ineligible.
Lockdown madness?
Oped, Postbag, Published on 28/01/2021
» While I would disagree the election of the Democrats should make Americans as proud as they have ever been of their country, given that Covid-19 cases were higher in Democrat than Republican states, I would say that Eric Bahrt in his two letters, "Barbaric lockdowns", and "American and proud", does have a point when he says that the way that lockdowns have been imposed has been nothing short of atrocious.
Corn waste to blame
Oped, Postbag, Published on 26/12/2020
» The haze is already upon us, but where does it come from? In Chiang Mai, most point to forest fires, but as the valleys fill with haze with not a forest fire in sight, there must be another source. What is that? Small farmers burning their corn field waste before the burning ban arrives.
Humans, not things
Oped, Postbag, Published on 25/12/2020
» Re: "Historic opportunity," (PostBag, Dec 23).
We need to act now
Oped, Postbag, Published on 24/12/2020
» With the renewed threat of Covid-19, there are some steps that the Thai government must take early -- and sustain them -- until the vaccine arrives.