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Debt doldrums
Oped, Postbag, Published on 30/12/2023
» Re: "Will foreign investors still be wooed", (Opinion, Dec 28).
In good faith
Oped, Postbag, Published on 24/09/2022
» Re: "Support for nuns long overdue", (Editorial, Sept 18).
Emerging monkeypox threat
News, Published on 07/08/2022
» Thailand has now found four monkeypox patients, including the first Thai woman last Friday. Given the apparent rise in infections, the Ministry of Public Health has come under pressure to formulate control and treatment measures.
The varieties of climate-driven medical risk
Oped, Published on 04/08/2022
» When natural disasters force people to pack a bag and flee to safety, important items are often forgotten. Following California's 2007 wildfire season, estimates were that for every household at least one person left behind prescription medication during evacuation. Likewise, when Hurricane Harvey threatened to flood my own mother's Texas home in 2017, she forgot to grab her medication in her rush to escape the storm's path -- even though she was normally meticulous when packing for a trip.
Bahtist meditation
News, Postbag, Published on 13/04/2022
» Re: "Temple graft shows need for reform", (Opinion, April 11).
Superbugs lurk in local food systems
Oped, Published on 06/04/2022
» When you think of antibiotics, the first thing that probably comes to mind is a doctor prescribing treatment to a sick person. But the vast majority of antibiotics used are actually given to animals on factory farms. This overuse of antibiotics in the agricultural sector is fuelling a global health crisis, with antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" killing more than one hundred Thais every day.
Sandbox saga
News, Postbag, Published on 13/07/2021
» Re: "Two more visitors test positive for virus in Phuket", (BP, July 12).
Mixed messages
Oped, Postbag, Published on 10/06/2021
» Re: "Disparity worsens ocean pollution," (Opinion, June 9).
Anutin must go
Oped, Postbag, Published on 28/04/2021
» Re: "Anutin defies calls to quit health post," (BP, April 26).
Anutin puts his faith in Chinese vaccines
News, Post Reporters, Published on 14/04/2021
» Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has defended the quality of the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine following reports that Chinese-made vaccines "don't have very high protection rates".