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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?
Relying on law
Oped, Postbag, Published on 05/07/2022
» Re: "City protest plan needs a few tweaks", (Opinion, July 4).
Not going to happen
Oped, Postbag, Published on 15/08/2020
» Re: "No place for bad apples", (Editorial, Aug 14).
Fuzzy Thai logic
News, Postbag, Published on 19/10/2019
» Historically, fear of communist regimes has been used by politicians to keep them alive, strive and win elections. In the USA, politicians always create a hostile enemy and introduce a powerful fear factor to get elected. For most of the last century, the USA treated China, the Soviet Union, Cuba and Sandinistas as a threat to democracy and the whole world. First, it was Soviets, later China, and in this new century, al-Qaeda and the Islamic State became the new threat. And now they have a new enemy -- immigrants from across the border from Mexico and South America. A whole generation of Americans grew up dreaming about communists taking away their freedom and democracy. Sadly, even today a big lobby of Cuban immigrants in Florida keeps those fears alive.
The Rules of idiocy
News, Postbag, Published on 23/06/2019
» Another totally useless committee has been established. This body, according to local media reports, is to lecture about the prevention of forest fires and indiscriminate burning.
Unworkable nonsense
News, Postbag, Published on 31/03/2019
» I could not disagree more with the conclusion of Observant Citizen in his March 29 letter that the Thai voting system should result in the party who wins the popular vote taking priority over the party with the highest number of seats.
Get to the root of it
News, Postbag, Published on 21/12/2018
» Re: "Media warned against revisiting past unrest", (BP, Dec 19).
Rankings no surprise
News, Postbag, Published on 04/10/2018
» Re: "Rankings not be-all, end-all for Thai unis", (BP, Oct 3).
Reckless statements
News, Postbag, Published on 30/09/2018
» Re: "DSI: Grounds to charge GT200 distributors" (BP, Sept 28).
Facebook fiasco
News, Postbag, Published on 18/05/2017
» Thailand announced to the world that it may block Facebook in a matter of days for non-compliance with court orders. Then officials discover they hadn't conveyed the court orders to Facebook.