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Sub-equipped boat to search for Malaysia flight MH370
Associated Press, Published on 03/01/2018
» JOHANNESBURG: A US-based company has dispatched a boat into the Indian Ocean in hopes of resuming the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, even though the company doesn't have a contract to do the job.
A year of living dangerously in Thailand
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 05/01/2018
» They were supposed to be in power for the royal transition but they have stayed too long and now want to win an unavoidable election.
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.
Outsider PM bid puts democracy at risk
News, Editorial, Published on 14/01/2018
» Several developments in recent weeks have reignited speculation over the prospect of junta leader Prayut Chan-o-cha becoming a non-elected premier after the general election.
On handling the gentlemen of the press
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 14/01/2018
» It is hardly a secret that the Thai prime minister is not exactly enamoured with the media. The press can admittedly at times be a pain in the posterior for those in power. It cannot be much fun having microphones shoved in your face after breakfast every morning by a scrum of journalists asking awkward questions about watches, submarines and elections.
Writing’s on wall for our democracy
Oped, Kong Rithdee, Published on 27/01/2018
» The other day I saw some graffiti in a public toilet. It read, ars longa, vita brevis. Art is long, life is short, as the popular translation goes. Like a street artist, I decided to vandalise it, scratching out and changing the first bit with my poor Latin: dictatura longa, vita brevis. Dictatorship is long, life is short.
No lenders here
News, Postbag, Published on 30/01/2018
» Re:"Govt faces down poll boss drama", (BP, Jan 29).
Words to the wise
News, Postbag, Published on 23/02/2018
» My daughter in Australia, knowing my love of the English language, recently sent me a list of archaic and now almost forgotten words that are so delightfully expressive that I believe they should be revived.
Farmers pitch rubber barter
News, Published on 25/02/2018
» Farmers have urged the government to help shore up the price of rubber by bartering with foreign countries for military equipment and vehicles.
Putin boasts of new-generation 'invincible' weaponry
AFP, Published on 01/03/2018
» MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin boasted Russia has developed a new generation of hypersonic missiles in his state of the nation address on Thursday, warning global powers they must now reckon with Moscow's military might.