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Curse of casinos
Oped, Postbag, Published on 09/05/2025
» Re: "Senate to invite PM to explain casino-entertainment complex bill", (BP, May 8).
All should compete
Postbag, Published on 22/09/2023
» Re: "Agency jittery over visa loophole", (BP, Sept 20).
Cop bribery queries
Oped, Postbag, Published on 25/01/2023
» Re: "DSI suspends five officers suspected in Nauru consul embezzlement case," (BP, Jan 22) and "DSI must clear up image," (Opinion, Jan 20).
Regal exemplar
Oped, Postbag, Published on 15/09/2022
» Re: “Crowds brave the night to pay respects,” (BP, Sept 14).
Dhamma bums
Oped, Postbag, Published on 10/03/2022
» Re: "Senior monk arrested for B110m embezzlement", (Online, March 8).
Free drug convicts
Oped, Postbag, Published on 22/05/2021
» Re: "Mass parole no solution", (Editorial, May 20).
Irrational sentence
News, Postbag, Published on 21/02/2020
» "A former abbot of Wat Sa Ket (Golden Mount) was sentenced to a suspended jail term of 36 months and fined 27,000 baht for embezzlement of 69.7 million baht in temple funds", read your online report concerning the politely termed "malfeasance" of a senior monk and a bunch of criminals from the National Office of Buddhism.
Fuzzy Thai logic
News, Postbag, Published on 19/10/2019
» Historically, fear of communist regimes has been used by politicians to keep them alive, strive and win elections. In the USA, politicians always create a hostile enemy and introduce a powerful fear factor to get elected. For most of the last century, the USA treated China, the Soviet Union, Cuba and Sandinistas as a threat to democracy and the whole world. First, it was Soviets, later China, and in this new century, al-Qaeda and the Islamic State became the new threat. And now they have a new enemy -- immigrants from across the border from Mexico and South America. A whole generation of Americans grew up dreaming about communists taking away their freedom and democracy. Sadly, even today a big lobby of Cuban immigrants in Florida keeps those fears alive.
The Rules of idiocy
News, Postbag, Published on 23/06/2019
» Another totally useless committee has been established. This body, according to local media reports, is to lecture about the prevention of forest fires and indiscriminate burning.
Respect for Prem
News, Postbag, Published on 30/05/2019
» Re: "Gen Prem leaves rich legacy", (Editorial, May 27). With great sadness we learn of the passing of Gen Prem Tinsulanonda, in my humble opinion, the statesman of the 20th century, a great soldier, a great peacemaker and a great communicator in difficult times, a reconciler who again united the nation and kingdom from its turmoil with communism.