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Shaming the lawbreakers
News, Post Reporters, Published on 30/01/2022
» The tragic death of an ophthalmologist struck by a powerful motorbike while negotiating a zebra crossing in Bangkok has exposed deep-seated flaws in traffic law, its enforcement and motorists' disregard for discipline.
Murderers on the roads
News, Published on 14/04/2019
» It has been over a month since a two-year-old boy suffered head injuries, a broken leg and a broken arm. He still does not realise that his whole family -- both parents and five-month-old brother -- are gone forever.
Carnage: An analysis of Thailand's road safety
Spectrum, Published on 03/06/2018
» Every 22 minutes, a human being dies on Thailand's roads. At 24,000 deaths a year -- the equivalent of a small city -- traffic ends more lives prematurely in this country than strokes, Aids, any single kind of cancer, pneumonia, or diabetes.
Drink-drivers get gory lesson at the morgue
Published on 21/06/2016
» Convicted drink-drivers were brought to a Bangkok morgue Monday to see a corpse and reflect on the gory consequences of their actions as part of a programme aimed at combatting the carnage on Thailand's roads.
Justice impaired
Asia focus, Published on 11/05/2015
» Last week, Bollywood star Salman Khan was convicted in India of culpable homicide, negligence and reckless driving for running over five homeless men and killing one of them after a night out drinking. The crime took place 12 years ago and Khan's five-year jail sentence has been suspended pending an appeal, but it was noteworthy that someone worth US$200 million faced justice at all.
Lawless culture takes its toll
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 13/04/2014
» At the age of 20, Prasom Suksawaeng thought he had a long and happy life ahead. He was born into a warm, loving family; he went to a good university; he felt that nothing could go wrong for him.
Questions raised over cause of refugee camp blaze
Spectrum, Published on 07/04/2013
» Two weeks after 38 people were killed in a fire at the Mae Surin camp in Mae Hong Son province, the circumstances that led to the fatal blaze remain unclear.
Smuggled motorcycles fuel a burgeoning black market
Spectrum, Published on 06/01/2013
» Unlike most Southeast Asian cities, Myanmar's former capital of Yangon is remarkably free of whining motorcycles and scooters _ thanks to a gang of thugs and a high-profile case of road rage. The ban was introduced a decade ago when a motorcycle gang known as the Scorpions, made up of young men from families of the elite and which had affiliations with the grandsons of the late dictator Ne Win, ventured near the motor convoy of Vice-Senior General Maung Aye in Yangon.