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Drama and pageantry
Oped, Editorial, Published on 12/10/2024
» Despite the Miss Grand International (MGI) Organisation's aim to promote peace, the beauty contest involving Cambodia has been anything but peaceful over the past few days.
Suvarnabhumi can shine again
Editorial, Published on 10/03/2024
» When it was opened to the public in 2006, Suvarnabhumi Airport reflected the mood and aspirations of the entire nation. The airport's main terminal -- a sprawling glass-and-steel structure that covered an area of about 500,000 square metres before its subsequent expansions -- was designed to look like a floating pavilion, its undulating canopy creating an illusion of space. The airport's design language is worlds apart from Don Mueang's, and the message to arriving passengers that Thailand, like its gleaming, brand-new airport, is open and ready to take a step into modernity was clear.
Too lax on Covid curbs?
Oped, Editorial, Published on 06/01/2023
» This Sunday, the Great Wall of Covid quarantine in China finally will be lifted, with millions of Chinese travellers set to make their first overseas trip in three years after an outbound travel ban that has been in place since January 2020.
Sex attacks too common
Oped, Editorial, Published on 02/12/2022
» It is not overly dramatic to say that not a single day goes by without reports of sexual violence -- from bouts of domestic violence and date rape to homicides committed against women and even young girls.
Time to step into sub deal
Oped, Editorial, Published on 18/11/2022
» The government should have stepped in when a party contracted by the state failed to meet its obligations.
Indian ban over the top
News, Editorial, Published on 27/04/2021
» Fact: the Covid-19 situation is India continues to worsen. Also a fact: the rising number of infections there makes India the second-worst affected country in the world, just behind the United States.
Help Thais come home
Oped, Editorial, Published on 31/03/2020
» As the tough war against the coronavirus gets under way, the Prayut Chan-o-cha government is facing growing calls to review flight check-in directives that make it difficult for Thais abroad wishing to come home. And it should listen seriously to the voices of those in trouble.
Lockdown the best option
Oped, Editorial, Published on 18/03/2020
» Temporarily locking down the country is vital if the government is still entertaining any hopes of containing the coronavirus outbreak here.
Hun Sen finds a Thai ally
News, Editorial, Published on 08/11/2019
» What is as troubling as the ruling Cambodian regime's ruthless crackdown on opposition leaders, as recent developments over the past few days have shown, is how willingly the Thai government has cooperated with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen.