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Online sales the key
News, Published on 17/01/2022
» Re: "Panel set to probe high ticket prices", (BP, Jan 15).
No place for bias
News, Published on 29/11/2021
» Re: "Rittenhouse Rules", (cartoon, Nov 27), "Rittenhouse and the Right's white vigilante heroes", (Opinion, Nov 27), and "American chaos", (PostBag, Nov 27).
Prizes for letter writers
News, Postbag, Published on 17/10/2021
» As the year limps to a close -- a year that most of us would prefer to forget -- I propose an idea that would enliven this column.
Rule of exclusion
Oped, Postbag, Published on 18/09/2021
» Re: "Govt to entice rich expats," (BP, Sept 15).
Cheek by jowl
Oped, Postbag, Published on 06/07/2021
» Re: "It's never too late", (BP, July 4). Your front-page picture on Sunday shows elderly people gathered to be vaccinated in Bang Sue Grand Station which is filled with people packed cheek by jowl -- no social distancing practices in sight.
Jab obfuscation
Oped, Postbag, Published on 02/07/2021
» Re: "No room for Phuket lapses," (Editorial, June 30). If the Prayut government can launch the "Phuket Sandbox" with such exuberant confidence, why can't it set a target date upon which 70% of Thais, including foreign expats living in the country, will be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 -- without any obfuscation?
Roads the big killer
News, Postbag, Published on 08/06/2021
» Re: "Drunks more deadly than bug", (PostBag, June 6).
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.
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.