• OPINION

  Go easy on the car seats

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 12/05/2022

  » A new regulation that makes car seats for children mandatory seems to have come at a bad time. Motorists are complaining the requirement will add to their plight with regard to the surging cost of living.

• OPINION

  Covid lessons from abroad

  News, Editorial, Published on 04/10/2021

  » Thailand plans to waive its mandatory quarantine requirement in Bangkok and four other tourist destinations -- Chiang Mai, Chon Buri, Hua Hin, Phetchaburi -- from Nov 1 to vaccinated foreign visitors.

• OPINION

  Give Arkhom a free hand

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 06/10/2020

  » After more than one month without a finance minister, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has finally named Arkhom Termpittayapaisith, former transport minister during the junta tenure, to the top position.

• OPINION

  Wage hike offers only small relief

  News, Editorial, Published on 29/12/2019

  » The new minimum daily wage rate, with a few baht increase depending on location, will take effect as of Wednesday in what is dubbed a tiny new year's gift for labourers.

• OPINION

  Challenge of contagion

  News, Editorial, Published on 05/03/2020

  » The exodus of illegal workers from South Korea, the world's No.2 hotspot for Covid-19, has given rise to grave concerns that the disease which has claimed more than 3,200 lives worldwide may well become a pandemic.

• OPINION

  Ailing patient needs help

  News, Editorial, Published on 03/02/2020

  » The novel coronavirus outbreak has sent a shock wave to the world economy, and Thailand is among countries bearing the brunt of the impact.

• OPINION

  'Deeds' under microscope

  News, Editorial, Published on 01/07/2019

  » When deputy Democrat Party leader Nipit Intarasombat floated an allegation that the return of land title deeds to debtors, who used them as collateral to borrow from loan sharks, held at ceremonies in a number of provinces was fake, many people were not surprised.

• OPINION

  Tourist tax could work

  News, Editorial, Published on 28/05/2019

  » The government's fresh initiative to charge a tax on tourists who visit Thailand is not a bad idea. But it should not be executed until the government has mapped out an effective plan to manage and allocate the potentially huge revenue generated from the levy.

• OPINION

  Don't rush Thai-Sino rail

  News, Editorial, Published on 15/06/2017

  » The Prayut Chan-o-cha government is set to use Section 44 to speed up the Thai-Sino railway project which is behind schedule due to legal and technical reasons.

• OPINION

  Asean media under attack

  News, Editorial, Published on 22/01/2018

  » A free press is the key test of whether a nation has true freedom of speech. Across the region, every country is failing the test. In communist Vietnam and all the way to the resurgent army controllers in Myanmar, governments are arresting, imprisoning and strongly intimidating the media.

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