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News, Postbag, Published on 20/11/2017
» The junta is flapping and crowing about Thailand having moved up on the World Bank's Index, "Ease of Doing Business for 2018", from 46th to 26th, a giant leap of 20 paces. Hmm...
News, Postbag, Published on 05/10/2017
» Re: "Monks told to stop selling holy items in ubosots", (BP, Oct 3).
News, Postbag, Published on 13/07/2017
» Re: "A helping hand for our wasted food," (Commentary, July 12).
News, Postbag, Published on 08/07/2017
» I'm glad that PM Prayut Chan-o-cha is reforming the police at long last, but he shouldn't reinvent the wheel. In 2006, then-prime minister Gen Surayud Chulanont, former army chief and member of our beloved King Rama IX's Privy Council, appointed retired Pol Gen Vasit Dejkunjorn, former chief of police, to head a distinguished commission for this very purpose.
News, Postbag, Published on 27/03/2017
» Re: "Mathayom 3 students fail all five O-Net subjects", (BP, March 26).
News, Postbag, Published on 27/11/2016
» The State Enterprise Policy Office urges State Railway of Thailand (SRT) land development as a quick solution out of debt (BP, Nov 25). Who does it think it is kidding? The SRT is a bottomless pit as its debt piles up deeper and deeper due to inept management, lousy service, filthy, antiquated rolling stock, the inability to maintain any normal scheduling, and free rides.
News, Postbag, Published on 26/11/2016
» In the 1970s we had several correspondents of the "US Army (Ret'd)" ilk, bemoaning the failure of Thailand's governments and administrations in conducting the nation's affairs on the admirable lines of Rainbow Gulch or Redneck Springs. Possessed of almost universal expertise, they were very, very boring.
News, Postbag, Published on 27/09/2016
» Re "Journalist unable to cut through Trump's falsehood", Opinion, Sept 24
News, Postbag, Published on 17/08/2016
» In the book Trump and Me by Mark Singer, Donald "Believe Me" Trump is variously described as a braggart, bully, swaggering buffoon, megalomaniac, narcissist and unpredictable demagogue with a need for total recognition.