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Vulgarity on display
News, Postbag, Published on 09/12/2017
» While watching some poor old half-naked, badly deformed saleng struggle to push his empty ramshackle cart along the road this morning, I thought of the vulgar ostentatious display of wealth by our clearly insecure deputy prime minister this week.
Army is the suspect
News, Postbag, Published on 27/11/2017
» The army should stop insisting it can impartially investigate the death of army cadet Pakapong "Moei" Tanyakan on campus, for "The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons" (Ralph Waldo Emerson).
The gravity of the matter
News, Postbag, Published on 19/11/2017
» Re: "Don't only blame drivers for road tragedies" (Opinion, Nov 18).
Towering infernos?
News, Postbag, Published on 28/06/2017
» In the wake of the Grenfell inferno, British authorities tested the eternal cladding (panels widely used to insulate buildings and improve their appearance) of 60 high-rise apartment buildings for the required fire resistance (BP, June 27).
Follow Buddha's wisdom
News, Postbag, Published on 28/05/2017
» In her May 25 article, "How our education sustains dictatorship", Sanitsuda Ekachai outlines clearly how the militarisation of Thai education harms not only education, infamously failing for decades, but also how the pernicious effects of the centralised command over young minds oozes out to pervade all of Thai society, to the great harm of society, politics and morals. The malaise does indeed start in the official Thai education hierarchy.
Too long for a lease
News, Postbag, Published on 18/04/2017
» Re: "P-move opposes 99-year leases for foreign investors", (BP, April 17).
Lost in translation
News, Postbag, Published on 02/03/2017
» I enjoyed Somsak Pola's comments in his March 2 letter, "Writing without rules" about the Thai vs English languages. However I take exception to: "The problem with Grade 6 students, however, is not regarding writing. It is about misspelling, using slang and colloquialisms which should be easy to fix. Mai pen rai."
Chaos on its way
News, Postbag, Published on 23/02/2017
» Re: "The BRT, should it stay or should it go?" (BP, Feb 22).
Children need more protection
News, Postbag, Published on 20/11/2016
» Swedish ambassador Staffan Herrstrom's piece in Saturay's paper ("Never choose violence against children", Opinion) couldn't have come at a better time.
Farang 'all the same'
News, Postbag, Published on 28/09/2016
» Re: "Man's body cut up with chainsaw", (BP, Sept 27).