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Ode to Gorbymania
News, Postbag, Published on 01/09/2022
» Re: "World hails 'one-of-a-kind' ex-Soviet leader Gorbachev", (Online, Aug 31).
Profiting on faith
Oped, Postbag, Published on 27/08/2022
» Re: “Keeping the faith”, (Business, Aug 22). Absent any supporting statistics, let us take it on faith as reported that “Large numbers of Thais are turning to superstition to help make sense of an increasingly fraught and unstable world”. But is that really an excuse for business to cash in by pandering to wild claims of dubious merit?
Drug resistance
News, Postbag, Published on 14/08/2022
» Re: "Lift antiviral drug curbs," (Editorial, Aug 8).
Steep fines not enough
News, Editorial, Published on 24/08/2018
» The carnage on Thailand's roads, ranked the second deadliest in the world in 2015, is driven by a wide range of factors. In a bid to lessen the horrific slaughter and improve road safety, the Department of Land Transport (DLT) recently came up with a harsh solution, aimed at keeping unlicensed drivers off the roads.
Windfall tax will lead to greater fairness
News, Anusorn Tamajai, Published on 19/07/2018
» For the first time ever, Thailand is to collect a tax on inflated property prices pushed by transport infrastructure projects, known as the land windfall tax.
Road plan is off the rails
News, Published on 24/02/2018
» In its push to build a new expressway in parallel with the planned Brown Line monorail route in Bangkok, the government does not seem to have come up with a good business case beyond the need to make use of 281 abandoned pillars on the Kaset-Nawamin road -- ghosts from the 1990s. That is not a compelling enough reason.