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'Built to burn'
News, Postbag, Published on 18/04/2019
» Re: "#Pray for Notre Dame", (BP, April 16). I join the rest of the world in weeping for the disastrous Notre Dame fire -- but The New York Times reported that Vincent Dunn, a fire consultant and former New York City fire chief, said "These cathedrals and houses of worship are built to burn. If they weren't houses of worship, they'd be condemned."
Emissions lawsuit tipped to scare VW out of US market
News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 07/01/2016
» The US government's lawsuit against Volkswagen threatens the German automaker with such heavy penalties that, in hindsight, it may not have been worth it for VW to be present in the US market at all.
Keystone cops
News, Postbag, Published on 25/09/2015
» It will be easy for the Samui court to see that police have, indeed, botched their investigation into the most foul rape/murders of two British backpackers and don’t have credible evidence against the two defendants.
Yingluck’s assets don’t excite
News, Bangkok Post, Published on 28/06/2015
» Re: "Graftbusters reveal B38m surge in Yingluck's assets," (BP, June 27).
Postbag: Grains of mistruth
News, Published on 15/10/2013
» The Bangkok Post published a penetrating editorial on Oct 10 (''Rice scheme woes mount'', Opinion), outlining the World Bank's estimate that the rice scheme has incurred losses of 400 billion baht in just two years.