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No to Land Bridge
Oped, Postbag, Published on 29/04/2025
» Re: "Govt presses ahead with Land Bridge", (BP, April 26).
Share the blame
Oped, Postbag, Published on 30/01/2021
» Re: "Stipend fiasco reveals flaws", (Editorial, Jan 28). Many elderly Thais inadvertently received monthly living allowances for years, sometimes decades, without being aware that they were ineligible.
Vaccine foolery
Oped, Postbag, Published on 15/01/2021
» Re: "Questions over Chinese vaccine", (BP, 14 Jan). I've maintained for a long time that the reason the Thai government preferred the SinoVac Biotec Chinese vaccine was that it came cheaper than the Western vaccines. Malaysia is now also questioning the effectiveness.
Not if but when
News, Postbag, Published on 30/06/2020
» In her June 29 commentary, "It's now time to scrutinise govt 'aid' packages," Khun Paritta Wangkiat mentioned: "if the government fails to assure transparency and efficiency of spending"....... If? Let's face it, that's a certainty.
'Built to burn'
News, Postbag, Published on 18/04/2019
» Re: "#Pray for Notre Dame", (BP, April 16). I join the rest of the world in weeping for the disastrous Notre Dame fire -- but The New York Times reported that Vincent Dunn, a fire consultant and former New York City fire chief, said "These cathedrals and houses of worship are built to burn. If they weren't houses of worship, they'd be condemned."
A taxing argument
News, Postbag, Published on 24/03/2019
» A reader in his March 23 letter makes a fair comment on two-tiered pricing for foreigners. But he then goes on to quantify the government's policy of a two-tiered charging system by saying that some farang do not pay taxes. I would dispute this. I am assuming by "some farang" he means tourists, as all foreigners living and working here pay tax in one form or another.
Damned if you do ... but they don't
News, Postbag, Published on 06/01/2019
» Re: "History repeats as graftbusters fall flat", (Opinion, Jan 4). Surasak Glahan's commentary on the frustrating dearth of objectivity, independence, fortitude and integrity of the National Anti-Corruption Commission is largely on the mark.