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฿1,000 fine not enough
News, Postbag, Published on 07/09/2018
» What? Only a 1000-baht fine for people using the hard shoulder on elevated roads and expressways preventing emergency vehicles like ambulances from reaching their destinations and risking horrific accidents like the one that happened this week?
A shallow argument
News, Postbag, Published on 10/06/2018
» Re: "Kingdom's global standing firm as nation digs in heels", (Opinion, June 6).
Pigs at the trough
News, Postbag, Published on 17/03/2018
» Re: "Hollow promises", (PostBag, March 15). I share Burin Kantabutra's frustration over the lack of progress in dealing with entrenched graft and corruption in Thailand.
Axes to grind
News, Postbag, Published on 06/03/2018
» There is a story in the March 4 edition of the Sydney Morning Herald with fascinating parallels to recent Bangkok Post headlines about the "Axe Ladies".
NACC soft on graft?
News, Postbag, Published on 23/01/2018
» I am beginning to think that NACC stands for the "national association for the criminally corrupt".
A paragon of virtues
News, Postbag, Published on 31/12/2017
» As Pliny the Younger noted, "Example [is] the surest method of instruction."
Lighting the way
News, Postbag, Published on 27/12/2017
» The sad reality of all the road carnage in Thailand is that, even with strict traffic law enforcement and widespread public relations and education programmes, it will take at least a generation to change the driving habits of the current population.
Barking up the wrong trees
News, Postbag, Published on 08/10/2017
» Re: "City takes axe to heritage", (Editorial, Oct 7).
Snouts in the trough
News, Postbag, Published on 11/05/2017
» Veera Prateepchaikul summed it up in his May 8 comment, "Raging red bull runs rings around lame ducks", for every man, woman and child in Thailand.