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The Sphinx and Sonthi's riddle
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 27/03/2012
» In Greek lore, the Sphinx was entrusted to guard the entrance to the city of Thebes. For a traveller to be allowed passage, he or she had to answer her riddle. Those who couldn't were strangled and devoured.
Sonthi answered coup question to US envoy
News, Published on 27/03/2012
» Re: ''Kwanchai, Sanan spring surprises'' (BP, Commentary, March 26).
Economy? Try choice!
News, Published on 26/03/2012
» Finance Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong says the troubled economy needs to be re-balanced and suggests increased domestic demand, imports and foreign investment are the solution.
KPI disturbed by 'selective' use of report
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 26/03/2012
» I couldn't agree more with a suggestion by the King Prajadhipok's Institute's research team on national reconciliation that all political players, including the government and the opposition, must try to build an atmosphere conducive to a meaningful dialogue to resolve Thailand's deep-seated political conflict.
Kwanchai, Sanan spring surprises
News, Saritdet Marukatat, Published on 26/03/2012
» Thumbs up for Kwanchai Praipana. Thumbs down for Sanan Kachornprasart. The one thing that makes Mr Kwanchai stand out from the rest of the red shirt brigade is that he puts the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship in an awkward position from time to time. The latest incident was last Monday.
Who's to bless and who's to blame?
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 26/03/2012
» One of the easiest ways to get a dinner conversation going at my house with a 27-year-old son and a 15-year-old daughter is to discuss the hottest item in the social network that day.
WFFT far from Money-Driven
News, Published on 25/03/2012
» I was very surprised to read in the Bangkok Post article printed on Thursday, "Melee over wildlife issue gathers steam", that the deputy director-general of the National Parks, Wildlife and Conservation Department claims that Edwin Wiek runs the Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand (WFFT) rescue centre in Phetchaburi as a ''private zoo to get donations to feed his business''. This is clearly contradicted by a recent experience my wife and I had.
Traffickers in human misery
News, Published on 24/03/2012
» Trans-national criminal gangs which traffic in people get rich by exploiting the weak and vulnerable. Their methods range from shady job brokers who cheat workers by making them pay for non-existent jobs overseas to young women lured across borders to work in restaurants that turn out to be brothels or sweatshops. They intimidate the underprivileged and enslave migrants in factories and on fishing boats. By any definition of human wrongdoing, they are the lowest of the low.
Old regime set to get a coup whitewash
News, Published on 24/03/2012
» Re: ''Sonthi 'must yield coup secrets''' (BP, March 23).
Wildlife foundation head sets the record straight
News, Published on 23/03/2012
» Re: "Melee over wildlife issue gathers steam" (BP, March 22).