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Time to fix city's trash
Oped, Editorial, Published on 27/09/2022
» The Bangkok Metropolitan Council on Sept 14 made the right decision to shelve a plan to increase garbage collection fees from 20 baht to 80 baht a month for each city household. Given rising inflation and the high cost of living faced by the public, it's just not the right time.
Indian ban over the top
News, Editorial, Published on 27/04/2021
» Fact: the Covid-19 situation is India continues to worsen. Also a fact: the rising number of infections there makes India the second-worst affected country in the world, just behind the United States.
Let's be car free every day
News, Editorial, Published on 21/09/2018
» On Saturday, environmentally conscious people worldwide will join forces and shun private vehicles, the main culprit behind traffic congestion, during what is being billed as car-free day.
Schools need simple rules
News, Editorial, Published on 21/08/2018
» Another child has died needlessly because of the criminal ignorance of a deficient school transportation system. Three-year-old Nuran Adiya Ma was left locked in the school van when pre-kindergarten activities began last Wednesday at her Bamrung Muslim School in Pattani. The terrible result was revealed when her mother arrived to pick her up in mid-afternoon. The van driver is under arrest, the school head and teachers are shocked, the family is grieving.
Disrupting disruption
News, Editorial, Published on 19/05/2018
» Two recent court rulings on short-term condominium rentals in Hua Hin via Airbnb should not be seen as the beginning of the end of online home-sharing platforms.
Come clean on Yingluck
News, Editorial, Published on 12/09/2017
» The official version of the "great escape" by ex-prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra is coming apart. More importantly, the public is rapidly losing confidence in the government's ability to reconstruct what occurred -- or concoct a credible account.
Sanity absent in terror hunt
News, Editorial, Published on 09/12/2015
» Last week's revelation from Russian authorities of a terror threat to Thailand has the potential to get totally out of hand. The government has failed to show real backbone on this issue while police went off on a wild and unhelpful tangent.