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Not another monopoly
News, Postbag, Published on 20/07/2016
» If a state enterprise must be chosen to run airport parking lots, PTT should not be the choice, for its core mission is all about oil.
Not-so-easy decisions
News, Postbag, Published on 13/07/2016
» Like a hungry dog at a fresh food market, it requires little imagination to grasp the difficulty government types have in distinguishing right from wrong.
Military budget fiascos
News, Postbag, Published on 08/07/2016
» Faced with heavy criticism of his high defence budget, DPM Prawit Wongsuwon says: "Every purchase of weaponry is made for the people."
Recover the money
News, Postbag, Published on 04/06/2016
» Can someone explain why Klongchan Credit Union members, who lost 12 billion baht, are not officially represented by the justice system? The Justice Minister (BP, May 31) is correct in saying that they appear to have been forgotten.
Why 'Fly Thai'?
News, Postbag, Published on 31/05/2016
» Umesh Pandey's opinion editorial on Thai Airways in today's Asia Focus was spot on.
How to be a hypocrite
News, Postbag, Published on 28/05/2016
» Re: "A sorry situation", (PostBag, May 26).
Justice finally taking its course
News, Postbag, Published on 08/05/2016
» Eyes opened and ears suddenly perked up across North America with the Bangkok Post story, "Red Bull heir ordered to meet prosecutors".
Ukraine is free
News, Postbag, Published on 07/05/2016
» In his April 30 commentary, "Clowning around is no joke anymore", Kong Rithdee claimed that: "From Ukraine to Egypt, from Myanmar to Malaysia, satirists have been threatened, charged and sometimes jailed."
Lessons from history
News, Postbag, Published on 16/04/2016
» I have just finished reading the third novel in Robert Harris's brilliant trilogy based on the life of Cicero. It's about politicians who struggle to practise and defend democracy, but fail because of the corruptibility and greed of many of them. The politicians are divided, and some favour allowing the all-powerful general, Julius Caesar, to take control of the empire.
Foreign lesion
News, Postbag, Published on 03/12/2015
» Re: “Foreigners ineligible”, (PostBag, Nov 28). While it is at least admirable that the CEO of the mass transit system wrote to clarify the policy regarding the use of the senior ticket on the MRT/BTS (or whichever he represents), I would appreciate knowing the rationale and the litmus test for someone to qualify. I have lived in Thailand for five and a half years (and have been over 60 all that time), I have a retirement visa, a Thai driver’s licence, I own (in my wife’s name, of course) a house and a car.