• News & article

  Poor playgrounds

  Oped, Postbag, Published on 18/11/2023

  » A sign of a thriving city is one that provides safe and accessible playgrounds for its children. While Bangkok is to be commended for its plans to implement over 100 pocket parks, the state of many existing playgrounds in our existing parks leaves much to be desired.

• News & article

  Cop bribery queries

  Oped, Postbag, Published on 25/01/2023

  » Re: "DSI suspends five officers suspected in Nauru consul embezzlement case," (BP, Jan 22) and "DSI must clear up image," (Opinion, Jan 20).

• News & article

  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?

• News & article

  Let's see Vicha report

  Oped, Postbag, Published on 21/05/2022

  » Re: "Nate probe a let-down", (May 19).

• News & article

  Time to call on India

  Oped, Postbag, Published on 26/03/2021

  » Re: "Thailand must be a friend to Myanmar people", (Opinion, March 24).

• News & article

  Dictator apologist

  News, Published on 15/12/2018

  » Re: "PM blasts Thaksin's charter rewrite proposal", (BP, Dec 14).

• News & article

  Bad marketing

  News, Postbag, Published on 24/02/2018

  » How could all five markets at the Seri Villa housing estate, Prawet, have been operating illegally, with some violating the building code as well? The markets have been operating in plain sight for years, with customers jamming streets with parked cars. BMA governor Pol Gen Aswin Kwanmuang is to be praised for quickly checking on the Prawet markets and vowing to review all 364 markets in Bangkok.

• News & article

  Allow peaceful protests

  News, Postbag, Published on 22/02/2018

  » I fully sympathise with those protesting against the junta's reneging on Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's promise, made in a press release co-signed by US President Donald Trump, to hold free and fair elections this November. They have every right to peacefully protest within the law.

• News & article

  Brutalised and brutal

  News, Postbag, Published on 29/11/2017

  » It appears to me that brutal military training hardens the heart and makes it difficult for military leaders to have empathy.

• News & article

  Nothing to crow about

  News, Postbag, Published on 20/11/2017

  » The junta is flapping and crowing about Thailand having moved up on the World Bank's Index, "Ease of Doing Business for 2018", from 46th to 26th, a giant leap of 20 paces. Hmm...

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