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Myanmar poll to test region
News, Editorial, Published on 27/12/2025
» Tomorrow, eligible voters in Myanmar will return to the polls in a general election organised by the State Security and Peace Commission (SSPC), the military-appointed body overseeing the process.
Cable car divide
News, Editorial, Published on 31/05/2025
» With its digital cash wallet scaled back and its casino entertainment policy under fire, the Pheu Thai Party has been in search of a good news story, and so in the past week, it touted the building of a cable car in Loei province's Phu Kradueng National Park.
New space race to the Moon's South Pole
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 16/08/2023
» Don't say "Moon Race". Perish the thought! But there is a race to land on the Moon, and the Russians are cheating. Well, sort of cheating.
Will gentrification respect city's people?
Oped, Kong Rithdee, Published on 28/06/2023
» We've lived for over a century in the shadow of grandeur: near the Customs House, known to Thais as rongpasi. "We" means my maternal family and the community of Haroon Mosque. Each day before sunrise, the muezzin's sing-song call rings through the neighbourhood, carried on the river wind towards the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, the French Embassy and Assumption Cathedral.
UN envoy and SAC: more than tit for tat
News, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 23/08/2022
» When the United Nations Secretary-General's special envoy met recently with the military junta leader of a pariah state, the expectation was probably that it would start with an exchange of pleasantries and then be followed by some serious discussion. Of course, nobody would know what the two touched upon during their closed-door meeting. That was not to be.
Farewells teach us all to live for the moment
Oped, Thana Boonlert, Published on 01/07/2022
» When we bid farewell to something, it marks the end of a relationship. Saying it gives us a sense of ending. Saying goodbye reminds us of how vulnerable and uncertain our life is.
Thailand not so bad
Oped, Postbag, Published on 20/11/2021
» So many letters to PostBag are negative, complaining about the government, military coups, the bureaucracy, the judicial system, inequality, immigration regulations, Section 112, incompetent Covid management, and much more.
A tortuous, but successful, journey
News, Lekha Shankar, Published on 29/07/2021
» There's something strange and surreal when a flight from India to Thailand takes 10 times longer, and the price is 10 times higher.
India needs to review ties with junta post-coup
News, Nehginpao Kipgen & Prasanna Kumar, Published on 09/02/2021
» As India's gateway to Southeast Asia, Myanmar weighs high on New Delhi's strategic calculations -- especially following the military coup on Feb 1 -- and its return to military rule has forced strategic thinkers in New Delhi back to the drawing board.
Peta's complaint about monkeys isn't totally nuts
Oped, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 08/07/2020
» When I heard that coconut products from Thailand had been banned from supermarkets in London, as a result of a campaign by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta), I wasn't surprised. Peta is known to take the welfare of all types of animals seriously.