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Beyond reason
Oped, Postbag, Published on 08/04/2023
» Re: "College student slain on Bangkok street", (BP, April 3) & "Veteran ghost-chaser Watcharapol livestreams to new generation", (Online, April 3).
Lame excuses
Oped, Postbag, Published on 31/03/2023
» Re: "Parties buck EC poll pact", (BP, March 30).
No more lip service
Oped, Postbag, Published on 30/12/2022
» Re: "PM wants 'Boss' found," (BP, Dec 28).
Time to be up-front
News, Postbag, Published on 28/12/2022
» Re: "Panel set to begin probe into warship tragedy," (BP, Dec 27).
Shine a light
News, Postbag, Published on 08/05/2022
» Re: "Dept fails noble task," (Editorial, May 6).
Dhamma bums
Oped, Postbag, Published on 10/03/2022
» Re: "Senior monk arrested for B110m embezzlement", (Online, March 8).
Dear 'golden oldies'
Oped, Postbag, Published on 16/05/2020
» Re: "Masks minus helmets", (PostBag, May 15).
The joke of law
News, Published on 01/12/2018
» The impressively slow progress on Premchai Karnasuta's case for alleged poaching in a national wildlife sanctuary can surprise no one (Editorial, Nov 30). It exemplifies perfectly why Thai people do not trust Thai justice, or rather, Thai rule of law posing as justice. Even when the law manages to be just, it is applied with seemingly blatant discrimination to protect corrupt hi-so types who are members in good standing of the old boys club while coming down mercilessly on the poor and powerless, who correctly see it as being created by traditional hi-so types to keep the masses in their place underfoot. We need not imagine where Premchai would be today had he been an aged peasant picking mushrooms illegally.
Military overreach
News, Postbag, Published on 01/07/2017
» The Thai military is staffed and equipped for a single purpose -- to repress its own people. General numbers are skewed relative to other ranks, the police and other military forces, suggesting the Thai military is structured and equipped to be a coup maker and government in waiting rather than a defence force.
Priorities all wrong
News, Postbag, Published on 25/03/2017
» I read that of 680,000 traffic tickets issued as of last September, of these, only 11% were paid. (It might have been an eye opener if they also gave the percentages of foreigners who paid from that 11%).