• OPINION

  Did Apec elite taste enough of Thailand?

  Oped, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 26/11/2022

  » What lasting benefits will Thailand enjoy having just wrapped up its hosting of Apec 2022 -- a global trade forum held in Bangkok last week? How will the much-touted meeting make Thailand better off in the long run? And will the excited chatter about a "BCG" economy ever amount to more than an acronym few working in those targeted sectors can decypher to give a full name to?

• OPINION

  When it twigged Thailand was different

  News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 17/04/2022

  » For the third year running we have experienced muted Songkran celebrations, and I for one won't complain if it remains that way for a while. Of course there have been a few naughty tourists who have broken the water-throwing protocols, but maybe the heat got to them.

• OPINION

  Caution needed in far South

  Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 14/02/2013

  » There is good cause for many of us to feel proud of, and to commend, the marines at a make-shift base in a rubber plantaion in Narathiwat’s Bacho district who fought off the major onslaught by well-armed Islamist insurgents early Wednesday morning.

• OPINION

  Human rights need priority

  News, Editorial, Published on 30/05/2023

  » Apolice investigation into the killing of a Lao exiled political activist in Ubon Ratchathani province on May 17 is moving quietly.

• OPINION

  Micro-suicide drones a real Xmas t(h)reat

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 21/12/2022

  » Some lucky boys and girls are going to find micro-suicide drones in their stockings this Christmas! Get your orders in now!

• OPINION

  As govt babbles, people feel the Covid curb pain

  Oped, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 29/06/2021

  » What can be the reason why the government seems to be making it increasingly difficult, if not downright painful, for people to cope with Covid-19?

• OPINION

  China ambush in Himalayas threatens peace

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 19/06/2020

  » Never bring a knife to a gunfight, the saying goes, but China does it differently. It brings clubs.

• OPINION

  Theme tune that lasts the test of time

  News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 17/05/2020

  » Watching the BBC World Service's Panorama documentary on the coronavirus situation, it struck me that it is one of the few TV offerings in which the theme music is just right. You wouldn't want to hear it too often, but its distinctive authoritative tones with a hint of foreboding, suggests the show is of some substance, which it usually is. It was surprising to discover that this serious music was adapted by Francis Lai from the soundtrack of the 1966 hit film, Un Homme et Une Femme (A Man and a Woman), basically a love story. The music, which has introduced Panorama for nearly 50 years, is called Aujordhi C'est Toi (Today it's You). Well, that's enough French for one day.

• OPINION

  Turkey's anxious Erdogan takes on the world

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/02/2020

  » Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not an "Islamist", in the extreme sense of the word. He doesn't wear a suicide vest, he doesn't behead people, he doesn't even go around holding one finger up in the air to signify his hatred of those who fail to acknowledge the One True God. But he certainly does like the Islamists a lot.

• OPINION

  Fallout from Ja New attack hurts govt

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 01/07/2019

  » Fingers are pointing at the government with accusations about its indifference to, or ignorance of, political violence; or even complicity in the violence itself over the brutal attack on anti-junta political activist Sirawith "Ja New" Seritiwat by four unidentified perpetrators in Klong Sam Wa district in Bangkok on Friday.

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