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  • OPINION

    Drunk logic at play

    News, Postbag, Published on 12/07/2015

    » Re: “Stores get 30 days to move booze off shelf” (BP, July 11).

  • OPINION

    Selfishness prevails

    News, Postbag, Published on 24/07/2015

    » Re: "Open Your eyes", (Postbag, July 23). Privilege has certainly won out in Thailand and citizen obligations seem to have been redefined to directions from above.

  • OPINION

    Education pipe dream

    News, Postbag, Published on 25/07/2015

    » Re: “Education reform not for timid”, (Opinion, July 23). This suggests a hopeless outcome for our lamentable schooling, but this really depends on your definition of “education”.

  • OPINION

    Praise for OAG

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 27/07/2015

    » Three chai-yos for the Office of the Attorney-General in indicting 72 suspects, including army lieutenant-general Manas Kongpan for alleged involvement in trafficking Rohingya migrants in Songkhla, bringing the total accused to 120 ("OAG seeks indictments for 72", BP, July 25).

  • OPINION

    Let’s Do China a Favour

    News, Postbag, Published on 02/08/2015

    » Re: “Subs a waste of money” (PostBag, Aug 1).

  • OPINION

    Reuters due for thanks

    News, Postbag, Published on 04/08/2015

    » PM Prayut Chan-o-cha should thank Reuters for its investigative reporting, partially quoted by Phuketwan, which exposed the trafficking of Rohingya migrants and won Reuters a Pulitzer prize. Absent their expose, Gen Prayut might not have undertaken his highly commendable actions against this foul trade.

  • OPINION

    Songkran needs facts

    News, Postbag, Published on 05/08/2015

    » Last week, I almost wrote in praise of Songkran Grachangnetara for his exceptional suggestions on ways to solve Thailand’s development problems (“Thailand urgently needs to tackle development traps”, Opinion, July 28).

  • OPINION

    What’s Thai policy?

    News, Postbag, Published on 08/08/2015

    » In an effort to counter China’s provocative launch of missiles during the 1996 crisis in the Taiwan Strait, the US staged the largest display of American naval power in Asia since the Vietnam War.

  • OPINION

    Subs claim sinks

    News, Postbag, Published on 11/08/2015

    » Re: “Subs plan tests navy to sink or swim”, (BP, Aug 9) offers a balanced analysis of the Royal Thai Navy’s case for submarines. The RTN’s main “justification” — to make other countries “stand in awe” — is weak. We already have the region’s second-largest naval force, behind Indonesia and ahead of Vietnam, yet with no conflict in sight. So, who are we going to stare down?

  • OPINION

    Going ballistic

    News, Postbag, Published on 12/08/2015

    » I noticed that the diagram (reproduced from the white paper issued by the Deputy Prime Minister’s Office) in “Subs plan tests navy to sink or swim”, (BP, Sunday, Aug 9) features not a Chinese-built S26T, the subject of the proposed purchase by the Royal Thai Navy, but rather a slightly bigger and infinitely more menacing Soviet/Russian Typhoon Class ballistic missile nuclear submarine.

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