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Flash flood alert for 26 provinces
News, Published on 18/05/2024
» Residents in twenty-six provinces have been warned of possible flash floods from Saturday until May 25 while the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) continues clearing the city's drainage system and installing water pumps citywide.
Unfortunate accident
Oped, Postbag, Published on 09/05/2024
» Re: "Motorcyclist dies after falling down drain", (BP, May 7).
Pavements must be safe
Oped, Editorial, Published on 07/05/2024
» About two weeks ago, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) launched a project to upgrade the city's footpaths. The plan is to start the work along 16 routes which bisect the city's busiest areas, before improving some 1,000 kilometres of pavements across the city.
Sattahip water shut off after bodies found in reservoir
Online Reporters, Published on 06/04/2024
» The water supply in Sattahip district of Chon Buri had to be temporarily shut down following the discovery of two decomposing corpses in a local reservoir on Friday.
Can't beat a good hometown name
Roger Crutchley, Published on 11/02/2024
» There was a brief US news item last week concerning Groundhog Day, an annual ceremony in Pennsylvania in which a large but docile rodent emerges from its burrow and predicts the weather for the coming year. No need for professional forecasters. It is celebrated in a small Pennsylvania town with the magnificent name of Punxsutawney.
Getting soft power right
Life, Published on 08/01/2024
» After three months in office, the Srettha Thavisin government has raved on about populist policies in the guise of digital wallets and soft power projects that will create income to boost our declining economy. With optimism, we learned that Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Pheu Thai party leader and head of the National Soft Power Strategy Committee (NSPSC), has drafted a budget of 5.1 billion baht to boost festivals and creative industries. It is welcoming news to hear this government is priortising art, music, literature, design, fashion, film, food, games, sports and festivals as essential sources for the creative economy. Where this enormous chunk of budget will come from, like digital wallets, remains to be seen.
And we're off again
Oped, Postbag, Published on 06/12/2023
» Re: "Festival wins Unesco recognition", (BP, Dec 2).
A life seeks nuance in free-market gospel
Oped, Published on 25/11/2023
» In writing her new biography of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, known throughout his long life for his cheerful endorsement of deregulation and free markets, Jennifer Burns certainly had her work cut out for her. Reflecting on how controversial her subject was, she says that one of her goals was “to restore the fullness of Friedman’s thought to his public image”. She depicts Friedman, who died in 2006 at 94, as a victim of a “bipartisan assault”, besieged by radicals on the left and populists on the right who decry the “neoliberalism” that he so ardently promoted. “As he increasingly came to symbolise a political movement,” she writes, “the nuance and complexity of his ideas was lost”.
Malaysia's funniest man comes to town
Life, Published on 04/10/2023
» In just one month, a 38-year-old hailed as the funniest comedian in Malaysia will bring big laughs to Thais at Siam Pavalai Royal Grand Theatre, 6th floor of Siam Paragon, Rama I Road, on Nov 3 at 8pm.
Most parts of dismembered Colombian still missing
Post Reporters, Published on 15/08/2023
» Most body parts of the Colombian surgeon who was slain on the tourist island of Koh Phangan early this month are still missing, according to deputy national police chief Surachate Hakparn.