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30-baht scheme needs attention
Editorial, Published on 12/10/2025
» If we are to listen to what the National Health Security Office (NHSO) has told us, everything has been running smoothly with the universal healthcare programme, better known as the 30-baht scheme.
Reform clergy with your wallet
Editorial, Published on 03/08/2025
» The recent sex scandal involving high-ranking monks has shaken public faith to the core. But the responses from the clergy, the state, and the public all miss the point. This crisis in Thai Buddhism is not about monks and sex -- it's about monks and money. Address the problem incorrectly, and the sex scandals and temple corruption will never end.
MORE case a wake-up call
Oped, Editorial, Published on 28/11/2022
» A recent scandal concerning unusual trading in the stock market is a wake-up call for authorities and brokers to come up with measures to plug loopholes in the capital market.
Keys to the kingdom?
Oped, Editorial, Published on 16/07/2022
» A bold initiative by Deputy Interior Minister Niphon Bunyamanee to allow rich foreigners to purchase plots of land and property requires a serious review.
Savers need protection
News, Editorial, Published on 14/04/2022
» The latest embezzlement case to hit the headlines regarding a savings cooperative is just the tip of a financial-wrongdoing iceberg.
Keeping up with crypto
Oped, Editorial, Published on 06/12/2021
» Thailand's digital financial service industry is doing well when giant retail businesses have intergrated cryptocurrency into their business transactions.
Better guardians needed online
News, Editorial, Published on 24/10/2021
» The recent news of a bank card scam that affected over 10,000 Thai bank account holders should make consumers take pains to protect themselves from online fraudsters ahead of the year-end shopping season.
Bank fraud shock
Oped, Editorial, Published on 21/10/2021
» Reports of rampant online bank fraud has caused fear among holders of bank accounts and credit cards. News reports say about 130 million baht has been withdrawn from over 10,000 of debit and credit card accounts in unauthorised transactions during the first half of this month.
Fuzzy logic in party loans
Oped, Editorial, Published on 23/09/2020
» The decision of the Election Commission (EC) to clear 31 political parties of illegal borrowings could cause further confusion regarding the organic law on political parties.
Preventing monopolies
News, Editorial, Published on 13/03/2020
» After 18 years as a toothless tiger, Thailand's newly revamped Office of the Trade Competition Commission (OTCC) is facing two big challenges to its mission of preventing market monopolies.