• News & article

  Conviction politics

  Oped, Postbag, Published on 07/05/2021

  » Re: "Charter court rules Thamanat qualified to serve as MP", (Online, May 5).

• News & article

  Unfounded beliefs

  News, Postbag, Published on 22/02/2020

  » Re: "Historic ruling offers pro-choice hope", (Opinion, Feb 21).

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  A silly syllabus

  Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/11/2020

  » Former Education Minister Somsak Prissananantakul favours providing students with a better understanding of history (BP, Nov 3), so long as a process known as chamra prawattisat be undertaken, in which academics with differing opinions come together to agree on a standard interpretation. This proposal sums up much of what is wrong with Thai education, and perhaps Thai culture as well. Why have a standard interpretation of history? So it can be crammed down students' throats for later regurgitation on command? History is like a photograph. It captures events from a specific angle, with a specific depth of field, and perhaps through various filters. Why not expose students to multiple interpretations and let them, through discussion, identify the biases in each and, in the process, develop critical thinking skills?

• News & article

  Jab move 'baffling'

  News, Postbag, Published on 22/02/2021

  » Re: "Thailand again defends decision not to join jab alliance", (BP, Feb 15).

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  Time to pipe down?

  News, Postbag, Published on 05/09/2019

  » I sympathise with expats who are living a miserable life because of the controversial TM30 form which many expats believe is a tool to pressure them to pack up and leave.

• News & article

  Immigration woes

  News, Postbag, Published on 30/03/2020

  » Re: "End tourist paper chase", (Editorial, March 28).

• News & article

  Thank you, 'Mali San'

  News, Postbag, Published on 24/08/2019

  » We Thais owe many, many thanks to "Mali-San" or Ms Megumi Morimoto, 46, a freshman at Kasetsart University's Sakolnakorn campus. As shown by the clip on Facebook by Udomsak Nak-chang-in and on television, she's been blocking motorcyclists from illegally riding their bikes on the sidewalk at Rumsalee intersection, thus protecting pedestrians from being run over. She's done this over 100 times. Although local bikers have beaten her up four times, Thai onlookers have rescued her.

• News & article

  Open your eyes

  News, Postbag, Published on 27/06/2019

  » Re: "FFP must clarify", (PostBag, June 25). Does Vint Chavala seriously believe, or believe that anyone else believes, that Thailand needs the amazing excess of army generals living high off the nation? For what, exactly? The most conspicuous achievement of that extraordinary number of army generals has for many decades been to protect the existence of generals busily plotting political careers allied to unusual wealth, which many suspect to be the primary reason Thailand has been so afflicted by military coups against its form of democratic government with a constitutional monarchy.

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  Pulling hens' teeth

  News, Post Reporters, Published on 05/06/2019

  » After the debacle we have witnessed in the last few weeks with "experienced" politicians pushing for ministerial positions, going back on their previous promises to voters and looking for power incommensurate with their electoral results, the Future Forward Party's problem with a "young and boisterous" member seems rather minuscule.

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  Varawut's ignorance

  News, Postbag, Published on 26/08/2019

  » After the death of yet another dugong, Environment Minister Varawut Silpa-archa, a former investment banker and football enthusiast, offered a public apology for failing to save Jamil's life.

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