• OPINION

  Assault on the game

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 18/03/2022

  » 'Shocking moment footballer FLOORS opponent with Muay Thai elbow", "Thai footballer fired for brutal elbow attack on rival", "Thai footballer sacked by Bangkok FC after shocking attack".

• OPINION

  UK pivot could be good for Thais

  News, Editorial, Published on 25/07/2021

  » This weekend the UK's HMS Richmond has entered Thai territorial waters to conduct a joint military exercise with the Royal Thai Navy. It represents the first visit of a Royal Navy ship to Thailand since HMS Daring visited in 2014. Notably, it is the first engagement of the UK Carrier Strike Group with an Asean nation as part of the UK government's commitment to becoming "a persistent, credible and reliable presence in the Indo-Pacific".

• OPINION

  Media put lives at risk

  News, Editorial, Published on 13/02/2020

  » The work of some overzealous journalists who covered the mass shooting by a non-commissioned soldier on Saturday in Nakhon Ratchasima sparks serious questions about poor judgement, if not breaches of ethics.

• OPINION

  The war on Christianity

  News, Editorial, Published on 26/04/2019

  » There's a war going on -- against a religion whose name is often treated as an embarrassing footnote. It's a war against Christianity, and while its tentacles of hatred reach across the globe, they were seen most horrifically in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday with multiple deadly suicide blasts.

• OPINION

  Speak out on barbarism

  News, Editorial, Published on 02/04/2019

  » While the world is fixated on Brunei's plan to fully implement Islamic Sharia law, which will see draconian punishments such as stoning to death for offences such as adultery and sodomy, as well as amputation for theft, the Association of Southeast Nation (Asean) has remained silent on the matter. How disappointing.

• OPINION

  Today is no day for guns

  News, Editorial, Published on 12/01/2019

  » While pictures of five-year-old Prince George, the son of Prince William and Kate Middleton, playing with a pretend gun stirred public debate in Britain last June about whether a fascination with military hardware is damaging to little children, the majority of the Thai public has been at ease with something far more worrying for years.

• OPINION

  Military digs a bigger hole

  News, Editorial, Published on 01/10/2018

  » A middleman in the purchase of the militarily useless, strategically harmful "black box hardware" for the army has been sentenced, twice, to a prison term of 19 years. Ex-businessman Sutthiwat Wannakij was convicted by the Don Muang district court for his part in the purchase of the fake bomb detectors known as GT200. The military men involved in this shameful saga more than 10 years ago have never been brought to justice. They include several of those in high positions in the military regime and National Council for Peace and Order.

• OPINION

  Rethink this London trip

  News, Editorial, Published on 18/09/2018

  » Just when it seemed the story had plumbed the depths, the unsavoury claim of a June 25 drugging and rape on already infamous Koh Tao has turned worse. Pol Maj Gen Surachate "Big Joke" Hakparn has announced an imminent trip to London. There, he claimed late last week, he intends to interrogate the 19-year-old woman who claims to be the victim. Pol Maj Gen Surachate, the high-profile deputy chief of the Tourist Police Bureau, has quite loudly doubted the woman's claim she was a crime victim. He said his London visit could end up proving the rape claim was false.

• OPINION

  Volunteers and success

  News, Editorial, Published on 04/07/2018

  » The successful search and the coming rescue of the Wild Boar football team is one of our finest moments. The 12 boys and coach were found and then broadcast on video to the nation by skilled and tenacious divers who refused to take a step or stroke backwards for 10 agonising days. They are heroes. So are the hundreds, Thai and foreigner, who supported them directly, as are the thousands who backed them actively.

• OPINION

  Prayut goes to Europe

  News, Editorial, Published on 19/06/2018

  » Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is to fly to Europe tomorrow, landing first in London and then proceeding to Paris. The trip has been ballyhooed for a month by regime spokesmen as a culmination of sorts. They have been trying to sell the notion that the four-year battle for international acceptance and recognition has finally become a fact. Those spokesmen are not giving a realistic picture.

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