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Media relations in disarray
News, Postbag, Published on 20/09/2015
» Re: “Cops blame media after probe stalls” (BP, Sept 18).
Distracted by noise
News, Postbag, Published on 18/09/2015
» Re: “Smashing up beliefs no way to instil order”, (Opinion, Sept 16).
Put police on trial
News, Postbag, Published on 15/09/2015
» Thailand's most experienced forensic pathologist, Khunying Porntip, is a valuable, national asset. The lady has successfully discredited the dubious DNA match police investigators used to accuse the two Myanmar men in the Koh Tao murder case. I hope the judge in this case will rule judiciously, and not bow to political pressure from the UK, the police or even General Prayut. He is, I’m sure a person who would frown on pressure for a guilty verdict to please others.
Justice at last
News, Postbag, Published on 05/09/2015
» Three loud chaiyos for the Phuket Provincial Court in acquitting two Phuketwan news website journalists over a report implicating the Thai navy in human trafficking (BP, Sept 2).
Imperfect intelligence
News, Postbag, Published on 23/08/2015
» I read Achara’s column, “Respect human rights in bomb probe” (Opinion, Aug 21), with interest. Then I asked myself if it is fair to accuse the government’s intelligence agencies of having no prior knowledge of the Erawan bombing.
Alien laws rethink
News, Postbag, Published on 17/08/2015
» I wholeheartedly agree that the poor English published on the Ministry of Labour website is an embarrassment. However, the main issue is that the laws governing banned professions for foreigners (aliens) is desperately outdated and in need of a quick and thoughtful revision.
Going ballistic
News, Postbag, Published on 12/08/2015
» I noticed that the diagram (reproduced from the white paper issued by the Deputy Prime Minister’s Office) in “Subs plan tests navy to sink or swim”, (BP, Sunday, Aug 9) features not a Chinese-built S26T, the subject of the proposed purchase by the Royal Thai Navy, but rather a slightly bigger and infinitely more menacing Soviet/Russian Typhoon Class ballistic missile nuclear submarine.
Trade pact is needed
News, Postbag, Published on 10/08/2015
» Re: “Time to rethink our economic strategy”, (Editorial, Aug 9).
Cambodian Justice Defended
News, Postbag, Published on 09/08/2015
» Re: “ ‘Show trial’ jails activists, CNRP figures” (BP, July 22).
What’s Thai policy?
News, Postbag, Published on 08/08/2015
» In an effort to counter China’s provocative launch of missiles during the 1996 crisis in the Taiwan Strait, the US staged the largest display of American naval power in Asia since the Vietnam War.