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Already over-charged
News, Published on 03/01/2012
» We have all read in the news lately that the electricity generating authority is committing itself to buy even more electricity from the proposed new dams at Xayaburi and Koh Kang even though recent articles state that we have excess capacity now. And with that commitment comes higher charges for consumers who cannot use it. What the electric company needs to do is drastically improve on its current service.
The fuel is CNG, even when used in NGVs
News, Published on 11/01/2012
» For more than a decade the PTT has been leading the Thai people in calling Compressed Natural Gas ''NGV''. So this has become the standard household term here in Thailand, while the rest of the world properly calls it CNG.
Getting ready for 'free flow' of opportunities in AEC
News, Prasarn Trairatvorakul, Published on 12/01/2012
» Global citizenship is linked to the relationship between an individual and the state. Since we now live in a virtual world connected by technology, today's global relationship should perhaps be better defined as an association with economic opportunities available to an individual, irrespective of physical presence.
Wear black to mourn Ministry of Education
News, Published on 14/01/2012
» Re: ''Give our kids a better deal'' (BP, Editorial, Jan 13). As today is Children's Day, it must have been coincidental that the Bangkok Post's editorial highlighted the fact that a third of Thailand's 15 million youths are failing through the cracks.
Think you know what's happening in the world around you?
Guru, Sumati Sivasiamphai, Published on 20/01/2012
» Well, Guru doesn't and we need your help! See if you can answer these amazingly difficult questions and win yourself the joy of being right!
Migration in 2012: challenging ingrained impunity
News, Andy Hall, Published on 21/01/2012
» At cabinet meetings during Thailand's floods, migration was absent from the political agenda. No specific response was apparently required. Officials reported no "host agency" and neither the Labour, Interior nor Foreign ministries assumed direct responsibility. Law enforcement agencies monitor migrants closely and surely knew how the floods impacted on them, however.
Well, just another week at the airport
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 22/01/2012
» It hasn't been the most auspicious of starts to the year for Suvarnabhumi airport. First we had the ugly ''slapping of ears'' incident in which a senior airport official tried to show how superior he was, but only achieved the opposite by humiliating a subordinate who ended up with a damaged eardrum.
Trading security for the tourist dollar
Life, Kamolwat Praprutitum, Published on 26/01/2012
» The beauty of Thailand, for some, is that one can enter and exit the country almost as easily as walking in and out of a 7-Eleven.
Help for Thailand's most marginalised
News, Published on 29/01/2012
» The magnitude of the problem doesn't excuse the inadequate policies of successive Thai governments, nor does it absolve the business sector of its responsibility to treat the workforce it depends on with fairness and respect