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Let's clear the air
News, Postbag, Published on 30/09/2017
» As a way of highlighting the government's commitment to wealth and not health I would like to bring public attention to several recent articles printed in your fine newspaper.
Makes no sense at all
News, Postbag, Published on 22/04/2016
» In order to "increase customer satisfaction", a Thai bank, which previously issued debit cards allowing people to withdraw cash at the ATMs of many other banks, has now issued a newer version which only allows withdrawals from the issuing bank.
Lessons from history
News, Postbag, Published on 16/04/2016
» I have just finished reading the third novel in Robert Harris's brilliant trilogy based on the life of Cicero. It's about politicians who struggle to practise and defend democracy, but fail because of the corruptibility and greed of many of them. The politicians are divided, and some favour allowing the all-powerful general, Julius Caesar, to take control of the empire.
Rule interpretation
News, Postbag, Published on 14/04/2016
» Mr Maurice Jones, I'm afraid you have been away from Thailand too long.
Sanctioned deaths
News, Postbag, Published on 25/02/2016
» In your editorial "Officials in a haze", (BP, Feb 23), concerning the smoke haze in northern Thailand that has been increasing since 2007, you pin most of the blame on large agro-companies burning vegetated land to clear it for corn plantations, and the accompanying ill-effects on people's health.
Publicity never bad
News, Postbag, Published on 16/02/2016
» Thanks for your brave attempt at clarifying what bridge is and is not (Life, Feb 15). One of the unintended consequences of the saga is that the Pattaya bridge club, small by international standards, is now the most famous in the entire world, with several hundred newspaper and TV reports and tens of thousands of comments on blogsites talking about it. The tale has also made Jeremy Watson (the organiser) and myself (the founder, in 1994) the best-known bridge players throughout the five continents even though our standards sadly fall short of the brilliance usually required for notoriety.
Think more carefully
News, Postbag, Published on 15/02/2016
» T Hinker ("Abused by the men in orange", Postbag, Feb 14) is accurate in referring to the corrupt commercialism of Thai Buddhism. But when he refers to Buddhism as a "simple philosophy of naive intent" it is he who is being naive.
Use power wisely
News, Postbag, Published on 10/02/2016
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has come out to apologise to the public for having lost his temper recently. I think most Thais understand his situation quite well and are ready to forgive him.
Gracious in defeat
News, Postbag, Published on 20/01/2016
» Somsak Pola in his PostBag letter on Tuesday noted Taiwan election loser Eric Chu conceded defeat graciously. Then he said Thais won’t do that. He is wrong.
Rights are universal
News, Postbag, Published on 07/12/2015
» I respectfully disagree with letter writers who claim that Americans have no practical knowledge of Thailand and criticise the recent comments of the US ambassador (“Bahrt misses the mark” and “Criticism of Davies is fair”, PostBag, Dec 6).