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Come to the party, PM
News, Postbag, Published on 08/03/2018
» Many of the 40 plus new political parties want Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to continue as PM, post-election. But some newbies want the post-election inter-party negotiations to be deadlocked to the point where the junta-selected and elected MPs can join to choose Gen Prayut as an "outsider" PM.
Bad marketing
News, Postbag, Published on 24/02/2018
» How could all five markets at the Seri Villa housing estate, Prawet, have been operating illegally, with some violating the building code as well? The markets have been operating in plain sight for years, with customers jamming streets with parked cars. BMA governor Pol Gen Aswin Kwanmuang is to be praised for quickly checking on the Prawet markets and vowing to review all 364 markets in Bangkok.
Undoing of the web
News, Postbag, Published on 17/02/2018
» Re: "Watch-scandal shenanigans sully decent debate", (Opinion, Feb 15, 2018).
Surakiart's key role
News, Postbag, Published on 04/02/2018
» Former foreign minister Surakiart Sathirathai says one of the objectives of the government-appointed advisory board he heads in Myanmar is to narrow the "big gap of international interpretation and domestic interpretation of what happened in Rakhine state".
Beware fool's dream
News, Postbag, Published on 16/01/2018
» Re: "Graft a 'human trait'", (PostBag, Jan 15).
Leave Yingluck be
Oped, Postbag, Published on 13/01/2018
» Re: "Officials 'must capture Yingluck'," (BP, Jan 12). We should all extend our sympathy to the government for having to resist pressure from various sources to pursue extradition proceedings against Yingluck Shinawatra.
Indoor farm hope fades
News, Postbag, Published on 22/11/2017
» Re: "The future of farming is moving indoors", (Asia Focus, Nov 20).
Blessed in junta land
News, Postbag, Published on 20/10/2017
» I cringe every morning when I turn the pages of the <i>Bangkok Post</i> and run into the daily government bashing mostly by foreign readers in PostBag.
Missing the point
News, Postbag, Published on 18/10/2017
» Andre Machielsen in his Oct 16 letter, "It's the corruption", takes me to task for supposedly failing to take note of the corruption which plagued the Pheu Thai government's rice-pledging scheme, but in doing so he misses the point of my imaginary exam question to imaginary students of politics and economics.
Misquoting the Baron
News, Postbag, Published on 01/09/2017
» Re: "Prayut slams Thaksin's 'tyranny' tweet", (BP, Aug 31).