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Bewildering rules
Oped, Postbag, Published on 17/06/2025
» Re: "Liquor law may be eased further", (BP, May 17).
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).
Student self-help
Postbag, Published on 03/03/2024
» Re: "Govt to recruit 40K school janitors", (BP, Feb 29).
Hymn to power
Oped, Postbag, Published on 20/04/2022
» Re: "'Soft power' is not built upon sweet music", (Opinion, April 19), and "Milli's sticky rice and mango stunt grabs world's attention", (BP, April 18).
Times are changing
News, Postbag, Published on 15/02/2021
» At a time when the anti-dictatorship student protesters are back on the streets it was interesting to see your article about Bangkok's trains not being just for the rich.
A silly syllabus
Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/11/2020
» Former Education Minister Somsak Prissananantakul favours providing students with a better understanding of history (BP, Nov 3), so long as a process known as chamra prawattisat be undertaken, in which academics with differing opinions come together to agree on a standard interpretation. This proposal sums up much of what is wrong with Thai education, and perhaps Thai culture as well. Why have a standard interpretation of history? So it can be crammed down students' throats for later regurgitation on command? History is like a photograph. It captures events from a specific angle, with a specific depth of field, and perhaps through various filters. Why not expose students to multiple interpretations and let them, through discussion, identify the biases in each and, in the process, develop critical thinking skills?
Loud wake-up call
News, Postbag, Published on 09/03/2020
» There is a media frenzy going on worldwide over the latest coronavirus and nowhere more voraciously than here in Thailand.
Learn from the past
News, Postbag, Published on 02/05/2019
» Re: "Empire strikes back in Game of Thanathorn", (Opinion, April 30). I agree that the political conflict between the Thai military and the Future Forward Party (FFP) leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit will be a long-drawn one -- and clearly there is no end in sight.