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Creepy toys
Oped, Postbag, Published on 15/06/2024
» Re: "Doll seller faces charges over undelivered orders", (BP, June 11).
Blighted regime
Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/01/2022
» Re: "Card holders can now use any hospital", (BP, Jan 3). Minister Anutin Charnvirakul's characterisation of his ministry's new policy of allowing cardholders to access any hospital as a "New Year's gift" to cardholders is illustrative of one of Thai society's most toxically dysfunctional structural elements: namely the largely unchallenged acceptance in Thailand that a major role of government in a democratic polity should be to dole out largesse to its citizen-supplicants.
Lessons from history
News, Postbag, Published on 02/08/2020
» The Covid-19 debate in Thailand is increasingly about the fate of the highly restrictive measures that have proved so successful in containing the plague (putting Thailand No.1 in its management of the crisis in WHO ratings), and easing them off to kick-start an economy that is rapidly going down the drain.
No shelter for strays
News, Postbag, Published on 13/03/2018
» Re: "Time to bite bullet on rabies scourge", (Editorial, March 11).
Morality vs morale
News, Postbag, Published on 07/02/2018
» Re: "Prawit won't resign, to stay on in 'national interest'," (Online, Feb 5).