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Wrong approach
Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/07/2025
» Re: "Porosity can reduce city flood effects", (Opinion, July 2). Nuntachart Ratanaburi, a researcher with the TDRI proposes that increased porosity should be incorporated in Bangkok by using porous cement, asphalt, and "green" strategies to reduce flooding. This idealistic strategy is simply wrong.
The human touch
Oped, Postbag, Published on 30/06/2025
» Re: "Wimbledon prepares for life without line judges", (Sport, June 28).
Licence doubts
Postbag, Published on 23/11/2023
» Re: "China-made sub engine is now 'okay'", (BP, Nov 21).
Stirring the pot
Oped, Postbag, Published on 24/06/2023
» Re: "Defiant student activist returns to school, again", (BP, June 19).
Why Sinovac?
News, Postbag, Published on 01/06/2021
» Re: "Inoculation drive to focus on Bangkok", (BP, May 30).
Boost borrowing
Oped, Postbag, Published on 21/05/2021
» Re: "No money left to ease Covid blues", (Opinion, May 13).
Toothless Asean
Oped, Postbag, Published on 26/02/2021
» Re: "Myanmar needs help", (Editorial, Feb 25).
'Pretenderloin' not so bad
News, Postbag, Published on 13/12/2020
» Eric Bahrt in his Dec 12 letter is back again with his "Meat is murder" campaign. I'm not in agreement with Eric, but this time he did touch a sympathetic nerve. During the late 50s when Chicago was the meat packing capital of the USA, (and I was still a teenager), I was taken on a tour of the Swift and Armor meat slaughterhouses and packing plants. I vomited copiously at the disgusting spectacle before me, and swore never to eat another piece of meat. I lasted about a year before I recanted and had a burger. Did I learn my lesson? Yes Eric, I did. But I'm still carnivorous.
PM out of control
News, Postbag, Published on 14/09/2020
» It appears Nate Naksuk, the prosecutor who let the Red Bull scion off the hook, has not only been exonerated, but also has been appointed as a senior prosecutor to central Bangkok district.