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Stand up, 'People'
Oped, Postbag, Published on 05/09/2020
» Re: "Time to elect city governor", (Editorial, Sept 4).
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Hazy booze ideas
Oped, Postbag, Published on 13/06/2020
» The approach to alcohol in Thailand needs some serious review and new structure. Thailand has great food and great food goes with nice wine and that is in the Mediterranean style and fits with tourism and lifestyle.
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Endless debt cycle
News, Postbag, Published on 05/10/2019
» Re: "Handouts not the solution", (Editorial, Oct 4).
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Poor meant to suffer
News, Postbag, Published on 21/09/2019
» Re: "Ubon flood saga catches govt napping", (Opinion, Sept 20). The whole problem has many answers. Corruption, low education, but mostly the higher-ups just don't care about poor people and especially those from the North and Northeast even more so.
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Judicial 'puzzlement'
News, Postbag, Published on 10/05/2019
» "It's a puzzlement…" as Yul Brynner said in the musical production of The King and I. The appeal court increased the prison term for the killer Benz driver, but justice has not run its course in a similar case, involving a rich company owner's Benz that slammed into a little compact car, killing the driver who was a policeman and his wife, and seriously injuring their daughter. Indeed, it is not a "puzzlement" at all.
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Government lottery
News, Postbag, Published on 20/04/2019
» The current impasse with Thai politics in selecting a prime minister might never be resolved due to the problems with the rules as stipulated in the 2017 charter. Obviously, the rules were inadequate because there is no readily available solution.
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Dead music
News, Postbag, Published on 14/04/2019
» As the Songkran festival starts I am left wondering "When did the music die" to misquote a certain Don McLean.
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Blind loyalty
News, Postbag, Published on 14/12/2018
» It is so poignant to read the words of Michael Cohen.
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The joke of law
News, Published on 01/12/2018
» The impressively slow progress on Premchai Karnasuta's case for alleged poaching in a national wildlife sanctuary can surprise no one (Editorial, Nov 30). It exemplifies perfectly why Thai people do not trust Thai justice, or rather, Thai rule of law posing as justice. Even when the law manages to be just, it is applied with seemingly blatant discrimination to protect corrupt hi-so types who are members in good standing of the old boys club while coming down mercilessly on the poor and powerless, who correctly see it as being created by traditional hi-so types to keep the masses in their place underfoot. We need not imagine where Premchai would be today had he been an aged peasant picking mushrooms illegally.
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A poll, not a conclave
News, Postbag, Published on 10/11/2018
» Re: "Foreign poll observers 'not needed'", (BP, Nov 7).
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