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Blind justice
News, Postbag, Published on 01/12/2019
» The Forestry Department just announced that Palang Pracharath MP Pareena Kraikupt's poultry farm does, indeed, intrude on protected forest and government land plots reserved for landless farmers -- but when the coalition MP protested innocence, the department promptly said that it would remeasure the plots.
Finally, some sense
News, Postbag, Published on 01/10/2019
» Re: "THAI may stick to renting after B156bn plane purchase axed", (BP, Sept 28).
Politicians to blame
News, Published on 09/03/2019
» Re: "TRC dissolution turns up political heat", (Opinion, March 8).
Dislike for clean energy
News, Postbag, Published on 19/05/2018
» Re: "Coal-fired plants back on agenda", (Business, May 16).
Graft a 'human trait'
News, Postbag, Published on 15/01/2018
» Re: "Defeating democracy," (PostBag, Jan 13). Felix Qui seems to believe that democracy is the solution to all problems of inequality and that once a democratically elected government is put in place corruption automatically vanishes.
Very slow learners
News, Postbag, Published on 09/09/2017
» In his Sept 8 letter Songdej Praditsmanon writes that student Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal "was already condemned by fair-minded individuals and cursed by many alumni" but what he doesn't explain is why. To some of us simple minded non-Chula graduates it appears that Mr Netiwit has clearly understood the message from King Rama V given in 1873 when he expressed "the necessity of rebuilding a more equal relationship between different groups in society". What isn't apparent is that the administrators running the university have understood this message and taken steps to advance these opinions.
Sex always sells
News, Postbag, Published on 13/06/2017
» Re: "Killer sales pitch", (BP Sunday, June 11).
Army wins, Thais lose?
News, Postbag, Published on 03/06/2017
» Times have changed. Yesterday's enemies can be today's allies in the face of a bigger common threat. All the major political parties must put their self-interests aside and work together. Can they? Or is "the game" already locked in, the pieces and the moves already determined?