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Be realistic on traffic laws
News, Editorial, Published on 04/05/2018
» Over the past few weeks, there have been two proposals to regulate traffic. One was a proposal for harsher punishments for drivers blocking ambulances, and the other was a move by the Expressway Authority of Thailand (Exat) to curb speeding on expressways.
Soldiers to enforce traffic laws during festivities
News, Post Reporters, Published on 27/03/2018
» Soldiers will be brought in to help enforce traffic laws during the Songkran festival next month, which will again see drunk drivers having their vehicles temporarily impounded, according to defence spokesman Kongcheep Tantravanich.
Japan to amend traffic laws to promote self-driving vehicles
Reuters, Published on 04/03/2022
» TOKYO: Japan's government plans to amend traffic laws to allow level four autonomous vehicles to drive on some roads and will ask lawmakers to approve the change as early as this month.
Enforce existing laws
News, Postbag, Published on 25/08/2018
» Re: "Motorists slam police road safety crackdown", (BP, Aug 23).
Laws thwart justice
News, Postbag, Published on 25/11/2019
» We should remember that law and justice may be related concepts but they are not the same. In an ideal political system, laws are constructed in an attempt to ensure that justice is done.
Confusing poll laws
News, Postbag, Published on 26/04/2019
» Am I alone in having trouble understanding the rules and regulations of politicians involved in this latest voting escapade, or are their others equally as baffled as myself?
Labour laws outdated
News, Postbag, Published on 21/01/2023
» Re: "Complaints grow against migrant 'job snatchers', " (BP, Jan 18).
Reform lending laws
Oped, Postbag, Published on 03/09/2025
» Re: "Buy now, bankrupt later", (Business, Sept 1). Little is ever said about the so-called many (often SET-listed) prolific finance companies here, which charge very high interest rates, levy late fees very quickly, and impose other strict rules that are often, may we say, not very consumer-finance friendly.
Stuck in traffic
Asia focus, FT Confidential Research, Published on 26/02/2018
» Congestion was a major political issue in the 2016 Philippine presidential race, which President Rodrigo Duterte won partly on a promise to tackle it. But Filipinos expect the roads to become clogged further as Mr Duterte's infrastructure projects encounter delays.