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Section 112 is untouchable
Oped, Postbag, Published on 08/11/2024
» Re: "Section 112 won't fix itself", (Editorial, Nov 7).
Revamping child policy
News, Editorial, Published on 10/01/2024
» For National Children's Day on Saturday, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has promised no more dinosaur displays at the Government House like the ones the previous administration used to hold.
A curious place to find 'Lady Liberty'
Roger Crutchley, Published on 09/07/2023
» A headline which caught my eye in last Sunday's Post was "Highway 12 to economic heaven" with a report concerning the rich potential of this route which stretches west to east from Tak on the Myanmar border to Mukdahan, just this side of the Mekong River from Laos.
Profiting from vice
News, Postbag, Published on 21/12/2022
» Re: "Rich couple arrested for operating gambling, pornography websites" (BP, 16 Dec).
#ProtestIdeas
Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 31/07/2020
» Accompanying the student-led protests against the government that continue to spread in many provinces, are new hashtags. #ไอเดียออกม๊อบ (unofficially translates to #IdeasForMob) is the latest one that has caught my eyes. Thai twitter users use the hashtag to come up with ways to make the protest more fun and interesting. Leave it to Thais to find lighter sides of things. Here are a few examples. g
New virus, new vocab
News, Postbag, Published on 14/04/2020
» In the age of the coronavirus, few people will care, as I do, about the virus's impact on language. But despite its many negative effects (like, for instance, death), the virus has enriched our collective vocabulary.
Weathering the Covid storm
Life, Pattarawadee Saengmanee, Published on 02/03/2020
» The novel coronavirus outbreak has become a hot topic at home and in the office, something we've talked about almost every day as the health authorities try to educate people how to protect themselves from infection. Specialists have suggested that people shouldn't panic, but I can't help feeling nervous.
Once upon a time it was smooth as silk
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 27/10/2019
» Judging from what a leading executive of Thai Airways International (THAI) said last week, the national airline is in a spot of bother and needs to turn things around quickly. Quite what the solution might be is unclear, although one suspects a "miracle" would come in quite handy. It is common knowledge that things have not been "smooth as silk" for many years.
Stop the arms race
News, Postbag, Published on 20/10/2019
» After a half-century of our "Advancing Partnership for Sustainability" Asean, why do we (Asean members) still invest huge money for ridiculous military devices like a jet fighter, destroyer and submarine but our precious forests are still destroyed by bush fire every year which produces a tremendous amount of pollution.