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Election 'reform' is a sham
News, Postbag, Published on 02/09/2018
» Re: "Limited primary vote draws flak", (BP, Aug 30).
Poverty extremes
News, Postbag, Published on 17/06/2018
» Re: "Time for new chapter in tackling poverty," (Opinion, June 14).
Unequal eyes of the law
News, Postbag, Published on 10/03/2018
» Re: "Law is an ass when dealing with the elite", (Opinion, March 9).
Allow peaceful protests
News, Postbag, Published on 22/02/2018
» I fully sympathise with those protesting against the junta's reneging on Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's promise, made in a press release co-signed by US President Donald Trump, to hold free and fair elections this November. They have every right to peacefully protest within the law.
Biblical timekeeping
News, Postbag, Published on 15/02/2018
» In his Feb 12 column, Khun Veera Prateepchaikul said: "Poaching probe shows signs of slippage. Forty-eight days! Why so long for a case which is not complicated at all?"
Happy mafia
News, Postbag, Published on 13/02/2018
» Re: "Drug gangs use Thailand as transit point to Malaysia", (BP, Feb 12).
Surakiart's key role
News, Postbag, Published on 04/02/2018
» Former foreign minister Surakiart Sathirathai says one of the objectives of the government-appointed advisory board he heads in Myanmar is to narrow the "big gap of international interpretation and domestic interpretation of what happened in Rakhine state".
Same, same...
News, Postbag, Published on 28/08/2017
» The Shinawatra family in Thailand shares similarities with the Barisan Nasional (National Front) coalition, the successor of the three-party alliance coalition in Malaysia that has ruled that country ever since independence in 1957.
Service off the rails
News, Postbag, Published on 27/07/2017
» In recent weeks, I have made several trips between Ubon Ratchathani and Bangkok, mostly using the new "Special Express Train Service" (in first class), which offers a rail service that, in the 21st century, could best be described as "adequate".
Perils of police reform
News, Postbag, Published on 08/07/2017
» I'm glad that PM Prayut Chan-o-cha is reforming the police at long last, but he shouldn't reinvent the wheel. In 2006, then-prime minister Gen Surayud Chulanont, former army chief and member of our beloved King Rama IX's Privy Council, appointed retired Pol Gen Vasit Dejkunjorn, former chief of police, to head a distinguished commission for this very purpose.