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Many gates, no bars
Oped, Postbag, Published on 10/02/2018
» Let’s see now. First there was watchgate, then we had copgate and now we have poachgate. Will the gates ever stop? No. Because this is amazing Thailand and we all know the elites don’t do jail time.
Lost in the dark?
News, Postbag, Published on 08/02/2018
» Without doubt the Thai public is about to witness an extravaganza worthy of a Disney cartoon epic that will clearly demonstrate the innocence of a magnificently wealthy construction tycoon caught up in a hunting event (BP, Feb 7).
Down the rabbit hole
Oped, Postbag, Published on 03/02/2018
» Help me, somebody, I think I must have fallen down a rabbit hole and found myself in a world as crazy as Alice did. In this strange, topsy-turvy world the people who ousted an elected government, an action usually considered more serious than sedition is now arresting protesters and dissidents for actions and speech inciting people to rebel against their government.
Avoid like the plaque
News, Postbag, Published on 25/01/2018
» I was a little heartened to read Thitinan Pongsudhirak: "It has become open season -- to take the military government to task" (Opinion, Jan 19).
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.
All in the planning
News, Postbag, Published on 11/01/2018
» In a Jan 9 report on the withdrawal of plans for a "skywalk" over the Chao Phraya River, Deputy Bangkok governor Jumpol Sampaopol stated that "similar walkways had been built in many big cities including London and Paris".
Speed really kills
News, Postbag, Published on 10/01/2018
» Re: "Toll still worst in the world", (Editorial, Jan 8).
No new beginnings
News, Postbag, Published on 06/01/2018
» Re: "A year of living dangerously in Thailand", (Opinion, Jan 5).
Courtesy unreturned
News, Postbag, Published on 28/11/2017
» There is a lot of whining over allegedly poor English displayed throughout Thailand (PostBag, Nov 26).
Justify the action
News, Postbag, Published on 24/10/2017
» Eric Bahrt in his Oct 22 letter, "A moral responsibility", has a point in asking for the moral calculus behind animal experimentation to be made more explicit and that these experiments should be justified on moral grounds.