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Help the poor, PM
News, Postbag, Published on 22/05/2018
» If this government is unable to win over the poor, it is almost guaranteed that the "Burn, Bangkok, Burn" party will return to power and who knows what lame brain policies Thaksin Shinawatra will come up with.
Kingpins remain untouched
News, Postbag, Published on 20/05/2018
» A <i>Bangkok Post</i> report this week showed 36 foreign nationals and one Thai were detained during tourist police-led raids on 104 locations across the country in the early hours of Thursday.
Being legal doesn't mean it's just
News, Postbag, Published on 29/04/2018
» Re: "Regime must forget 'face' and do right thing".
Biblical timekeeping
News, Postbag, Published on 15/02/2018
» In his Feb 12 column, Khun Veera Prateepchaikul said: "Poaching probe shows signs of slippage. Forty-eight days! Why so long for a case which is not complicated at all?"
Down the rabbit hole
Oped, Postbag, Published on 03/02/2018
» Help me, somebody, I think I must have fallen down a rabbit hole and found myself in a world as crazy as Alice did. In this strange, topsy-turvy world the people who ousted an elected government, an action usually considered more serious than sedition is now arresting protesters and dissidents for actions and speech inciting people to rebel against their government.
Leave Yingluck be
Oped, Postbag, Published on 13/01/2018
» Re: "Officials 'must capture Yingluck'," (BP, Jan 12). We should all extend our sympathy to the government for having to resist pressure from various sources to pursue extradition proceedings against Yingluck Shinawatra.
People deserve JFK truth
News, Postbag, Published on 05/11/2017
» If state funding for hospitals were adequate, there would be no need for the very admirable run by Toon Bodyslam - and the real heroes would be taxpayers.
Barking up the wrong trees
News, Postbag, Published on 08/10/2017
» Re: "City takes axe to heritage", (Editorial, Oct 7).
Religious business
News, Postbag, Published on 05/10/2017
» Re: "Monks told to stop selling holy items in ubosots", (BP, Oct 3).
Very slow learners
News, Postbag, Published on 09/09/2017
» In his Sept 8 letter Songdej Praditsmanon writes that student Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal "was already condemned by fair-minded individuals and cursed by many alumni" but what he doesn't explain is why. To some of us simple minded non-Chula graduates it appears that Mr Netiwit has clearly understood the message from King Rama V given in 1873 when he expressed "the necessity of rebuilding a more equal relationship between different groups in society". What isn't apparent is that the administrators running the university have understood this message and taken steps to advance these opinions.