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Act now on favipiravir
Oped, Editorial, Published on 04/08/2021
» Access to medicine can make a life-and-death difference amid the Covid-19 emergency. The government cannot afford to fail in the crucial mission of securing enough of the antiviral medication favipiravir to cover the rapid increase of patients.
Double-faced drugs policy
News, Editorial, Published on 20/11/2018
» The government has become somewhat schizophrenic about its policies on banned drugs. It has sent mixed signals about the path to legalising medical marijuana. Providing a programme leading to the needed reform of law on illicit drugs is even less clear. In just the past few weeks, senior officials and ministers have indicated, rather, that they expect to renew and redoubled the "war on drugs" policies that have failed so badly.
Cut corners take toll in bus crashes
News, Editorial, Published on 25/03/2018
» The road accident involving a double-decker bus that killed 18 holiday-makers and injured 30 more this week indicates that serious safety flaws remain in the nation's public transport.
Justice must be done
News, Editorial, Published on 16/10/2015
» The case of the riot at Thalang police station in Phuket will be a major test, both for the new police chief Pol Gen Chakthip Chaijinda and the police force as an organisation. The national police commission must show the public it can get to the bottom of those incidents fairly and effectively. Transparency and impartiality must be seen to be applied to every step in the process of the investigation. Any decision to charge, or not charge, anyone involved in the case must be backed by solid evidence.