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Ban toxic glyphosate
News, Postbag, Published on 26/05/2018
» According to a May 24 report, the Hazardous Substance Committee, in reference to a ban on three toxic pesticides, said "there were insufficient studies confirming they were health hazards", and thus have allowed their continued use. One of the three is glyphosate, known as "Roundup".
Waste of public money
News, Postbag, Published on 23/03/2018
» With the approval of a 150-billion-baht budget, the junta government plans for massive handouts to villages nationwide before the next election.
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?"
Trump in the swamp
News, Postbag, Published on 26/12/2017
» Re: "Ethical dilemmas", (PostBag, Dec 25).
Unhealthy leadership
News, Postbag, Published on 08/11/2017
» I found reading Atiya Atchakulwisut's Tuesday column, 'Rocker Toon's noble cause is just too great' very depressing.
Contempt for tradition
News, Postbag, Published on 07/11/2017
» For two nights in a row in Chiang Mai, Thais were setting off firecrackers until six in the morning during the Loy Krathong festival, constantly waking up the entire neighbourhood.
A medieval fantasy
News, Postbag, Published on 05/09/2017
» Re: "Great escapes... and some not so great", (Postscript, Sept 3).
Towering infernos?
News, Postbag, Published on 28/06/2017
» In the wake of the Grenfell inferno, British authorities tested the eternal cladding (panels widely used to insulate buildings and improve their appearance) of 60 high-rise apartment buildings for the required fire resistance (BP, June 27).
Follow Buddha's wisdom
News, Postbag, Published on 28/05/2017
» In her May 25 article, "How our education sustains dictatorship", Sanitsuda Ekachai outlines clearly how the militarisation of Thai education harms not only education, infamously failing for decades, but also how the pernicious effects of the centralised command over young minds oozes out to pervade all of Thai society, to the great harm of society, politics and morals. The malaise does indeed start in the official Thai education hierarchy.
An 'uber' opportunity
News, Postbag, Published on 13/03/2017
» Re: "Dept plans Uber meeting over legality" (BP, March 11).