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Let's think smart
Oped, Postbag, Published on 13/07/2024
» Re: "Do subsidies affect consumption?", (Business, July 1).
Not how I recall it
Oped, Postbag, Published on 16/01/2024
» Re: "Call to end alcohol ban", (BP, Jan 15). Is history being rewritten? 1972? In happier and somewhat simpler times, I was drinking or purchasing beer cheerfully during the afternoon back in the early 1980s and subsequently anywhere in Thailand.
Fix the basics first
Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/11/2022
» Re: "New flak for foreign land ownership bill", (BP, Nov 1).
Nuclear power the answer
News, Postbag, Published on 14/11/2021
» Re: "Reducing emissions not so easy," (Opinion, Nov 10).
Cronyism 'typical'?
News, Postbag, Published on 13/04/2018
» Re: "Right man for the job", (Editorial, April 12).
Follow the money
News, Postbag, Published on 01/05/2017
» Finance Minister Apisak Tantivorawong, in lamenting a decline in foreign direct investment despite new Board of Investment incentives, asked, "maybe our incentives aren't generous enough compared with other countries or we might have a weak marketing strategy".
Liberalise lease laws
News, Postbag, Published on 29/01/2016
» An argument often heard in Thailand is that to extend leases or grant ownership rights to foreigners would betray sensitivity to the history of colonisation in Southeast Asia. But Thailand has not been subject to colonisation and is seldom seen to be overly sensitive to its neighbours' problems or transgressions, unless they directly impact the kingdom.