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Polls no panacea
Oped, Postbag, Published on 17/02/2024
» Re: "The perils of too much democracy", (Editorial, Feb 10).
What's the incentive?
Oped, Postbag, Published on 03/12/2022
» Re: "Thailand predicted to fail on EV target", (BP, Nov 30).
Ashes of democracy
Oped, Postbag, Published on 06/02/2021
» Re: "Myanmar coup sparks Asean concern", (Opinion, Feb 5).
Zero-baht notes?
News, Postbag, Published on 27/01/2020
» I doubt there can be anyone in Thailand who does not have personal experience of the endemic corruption at all levels of government and officialdom, whether it be 200 baht paid to a policeman for speeding or some other imagined driving offence, to a thousand baht or more demanded by a bureaucrat to expedite a simple government transaction.
Pareena catches break
News, Postbag, Published on 26/01/2020
» Local media reported last week that coalition MP Pareena Kraikupt will get off scot-free from charges of encroaching on protected land because she's returned the land to the Agricultural Land Reform Office (Alro) and Royal Forest Department, both of which are suddenly too busy to pursue charges against this influential lady.
How to steal a nation
News, Postbag, Published on 25/01/2020
» Re: "Government's competence in question", (Opinion, Jan 24).
Political hodgepodge
News, Postbag, Published on 08/07/2019
» Re: "The evolving Thai political fault lines", (Opinion, July 5). I must agree with everything Thitinan Pongsudhirak has pointed out. This military-led conservative coalition distrusts open politics and a fair, democratic game of elections, constitutions, and political parties and civil society.
Orwellian Thailand
News, Postbag, Published on 20/06/2019
» Re: "Climate of fear must end", (Editorial, June 19).
Ultras vs zombies
News, Postbag, Published on 14/06/2019
» Re: "Calls for blood must be nipped in bud," (Opinion, June 12).
Trumping the truth
News, Postbag, Published on 23/10/2018
» In recent years it seems that politicians are so ready to offer up any nonsense as their version of the truth that the average citizen is finding it ever harder to know what to believe.