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Follow-ups needed
Oped, Postbag, Published on 07/09/2024
» Re: "Seed bomb threat to forest ecology", (Editorial, Sept 2), "Hilltop plot seized after landslides", (BP, 2 Sept) & "Phuket Buddha site ordered closed due to landslide risks", (BP, Sept 3).
Don't kill messenger
Oped, Postbag, Published on 13/08/2024
» Re: "PM shrugs off foreign critics", (BP, Aug 8).
Way too formal
News, Published on 22/07/2024
» Re: "Thai athletes' Olympic outfit stirs debate online", (BP, July 19).
Covid kudos
Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/02/2022
» Re: "PM lauds nation's Covid index boost," (BP, Feb 2). Giving credit where credit is due, hearty congratulations to all concerned, including PM Prayut and DPM Anutin, on our good Covid-19 booster coverage.
Get your boots on
News, Postbag, Published on 31/01/2022
» Re: "Oil spill last straw for Rayong tourism", (BP, Jan 30).
Moral conundrum
Oped, Postbag, Published on 15/01/2022
» Re: "Bill on media council gets cabinet nod," (BP, Jan 13). When we read in "Bill on media council gets cabinet nod" that "the exercise of media freedoms must not infringe on social mores", all who value good public morals will be deeply concerned. This must be so since being a social mores never has and cannot of itself guarantee that any belief, custom, or attitude is morally good.
Stalk in the parks
Oped, Postbag, Published on 24/06/2021
» Re: "Violence hampers Unesco park quest", (Opinion, June 17).
Mixed messages
Oped, Postbag, Published on 10/06/2021
» Re: "Disparity worsens ocean pollution," (Opinion, June 9).
A costly delay
Oped, Postbag, Published on 20/02/2021
» It is becoming increasingly clear that there will be no tourists arriving in numbers before the majority of Thai people are vaccinated. A country that depends on close to 20% of its GDP on travel and tourism should by now be right up there with Israel in terms of inoculations or at least at par with the UK to be able to open up this coming summer.
Mass testing best
News, Postbag, Published on 21/03/2020
» The most effective and cheapest way of controlling the Covid-19 pandemic will be to conduct mass testing of the population, as urged by eminent French infectious diseases expert Dr Didier Raoult. He has pointed out that cheaply mass produced testing equipment is already available and is being used effectively in South Korea. Countries, including Thailand, should build up this mass testing capability as fast as it can and test as many people as possible. That way it will be possible to isolate only those who test positive and it also makes it possible to treat those who start showing symptoms early which boosts the chance of a favourable outcome for them. This will be far more effective than locking down entire populations of people who are not infected and causing a massive economic dislocation in the process. In Thailand's case, it may cost US$325 million (10.5 billion baht) to test the entire population, but that would be a drop in the bucket compared to the $8 billion cost of a 5% decline in GDP.