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Not about safety
Postbag, Published on 12/07/2025
» Re: "Safer tourism needed now", (Editorial, July 11).
Crossing the line?
Oped, Postbag, Published on 06/04/2022
» Re: "A slap in the face of civility", (Opinion, March 30).
Drain army swamp
Oped, Postbag, Published on 06/06/2020
» Re: "Get serious on environment", (Editorial, June 5).
Born to love noise
News, Postbag, Published on 04/06/2019
» Daniel Reid in his June 3 letter, "Kill noise monsters", is right. There is a department to deal with noise pollution. I found this office at the Bangkok City Hall about 15 or so years ago, tucked away in a corner, staffed by 10 people, all who were playing computer games when I walked in. I was there to file a noise complaint. None of the staff knew where to find the complaint forms to fill in. When a form was eventually produced, there was little enthusiasm for anyone to listen or help out. I finally went outside to find "someone in authority" to light a fire under these people. At least I got the ball rolling after a few hours that should have taken a few minutes.
Just the way it is...
News, Postbag, Published on 27/05/2019
» The headline on the March 26 Sunday editorial, "Politicians must put public first", caught my eye. "The interruption gave the impression that some politicians are still self-serving, rather than serving both their voters and their country. This is unfortunate." It may indeed be unfortunate, but self-serving politicians are a Thai political reality, a way of life, and no amount of rhetoric, public or private, will ever bring this practice to an end.
Haze a concrete issue
Oped, Postbag, Published on 20/02/2018
» I am surprised that nobody to date has raised the possibility of the huge increase in concrete making sites contributing to the pollution. In the road behind where we live, Rama 9 Soi 19, there used to be four such sites, now there are nine and a 10th being erected. The huge area being developed adjacent to the MRT Depot in Huai Khwang has had its own concrete-making machine erected. Another site on Rama IX similarly has recently had one erected. Concrete dust particles are present in the air directly from these sites. Concrete mixer lorries throw up clouds of dust when leaving the sites, some also get rid of the remnants in the mixer by offloading at the side of the road, I suspect illegally.