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Landed interest
News, Postbag, Published on 29/05/2022
» Re: "Dems swoop on Pareena's House seat," (BP, May 23).
Give tourists a hand
Oped, Postbag, Published on 15/03/2022
» Re: "Hotels 'helping' stranded tourists", (BP, March 13).
NACC takes the lead
Oped, Postbag, Published on 12/02/2021
» The NACC is to be highly praised for its courage in finding Palang Pracharath Party MP Pareena Kraikupt guilty of extreme ethical misconduct for having a 771-rai poultry farm in a national forest (BP, Feb 11).
Buddhist disconnect
Oped, Postbag, Published on 06/11/2020
» Re: "Putting virtues first", (Opinion, Nov 6).
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?
Blind justice
News, Postbag, Published on 01/12/2019
» The Forestry Department just announced that Palang Pracharath MP Pareena Kraikupt's poultry farm does, indeed, intrude on protected forest and government land plots reserved for landless farmers -- but when the coalition MP protested innocence, the department promptly said that it would remeasure the plots.
Make facts available
News, Postbag, Published on 13/11/2019
» Re: "PPRP MP Parina under fire for Ratchaburi poultry farm," (BP, Nov 12).