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Narrative challenged
Oped, Postbag, Published on 11/12/2025
» Re: "Thailand's delicate stance with Israel", (Opinion, Dec 9). As a Jew living in Thailand for over 20 years, I must admit I was not happy with what I read. Indeed, found a number of statements to be offensive: The second paragraph implies that Israel's response to the terrorist attack on Oct 7, 2023, was "genocide" -- a term coined in 1944 to describe Hitler's campaign to exterminate all European Jews, and defined as "the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group".
Vascular woes
Postbag, Published on 20/09/2025
» Re: "Heart disease now hitting younger Thais", (BP, Sept 17).
Give Pita a chance
News, Postbag, Published on 20/05/2023
» Re: "Senators slow to warm to Pita's PM bid", (BP, May 17).
Suppression doomed
Oped, Postbag, Published on 06/03/2021
» A new generation young people is readying itself to tackle the problems passed on to them by previous generations: the climate emergency, economic inequality and the decomposition of cultural integrity. The spirit of transformation towards sustainability and social justice has not only emerged in Thailand but globally. The willingness to co-create a just and flourishing society in harmony with nature irrespective of the enormous burdens from the past manifests itself in the region as the "Milk Tea Alliance": young people in Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan and now even more strongly in Myanmar, India (farmers' protests supported by youth), and likely to be the case also in Malaysia and Indonesia.
A knee-jerk reaction
Oped, Postbag, Published on 13/02/2021
» I take a somewhat different view from that of David Brown in his Feb 11 letter on what Australia's reaction to the latest Myanmar coup should be.
Misconceived notions
News, Postbag, Published on 15/02/2020
» Re: "Professionalise army", (PostBag, Feb 12).
How to steal a nation
News, Postbag, Published on 25/01/2020
» Re: "Government's competence in question", (Opinion, Jan 24).
Think more of earth
News, Postbag, Published on 24/01/2020
» Re: "SEC comes at cost to locals", (Editorial, Jan 23).
Law is for everyone
News, Postbag, Published on 21/12/2019
» It was reported earlier this week that the army admitted to killing three unarmed civilians in the deep South.
Why reinvent it?
News, Postbag, Published on 30/10/2019
» Following the recent comments on the proposal to universally fit vehicles with GPS, it seems that the Transport Minister may have proposed a solution without defining a problem. The problems seem to include abysmally poor and unchecked standards of driving, not the inability to locate a vehicle which may be subject of criminal proceedings.