• OPINION

  Clergy reform long overdue

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 09/05/2023

  » The recent downfall of a well-known monk has again exposed a darker reality beneath the serene surface of Thai Buddhism: monks' sexual misconduct and the theft of temple funds.

• OPINION

  Bribe case demands police response

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 14/12/2020

  » It takes two to tango. Likewise, it takes two consenting parties to commit an offence of bribery -- that is one who offers or gives the money or other reward and the other who receives the offering as a means of influencing his actions.

• OPINION

  No police apology for monk's violent arrest

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 28/05/2018

  » Nobody doubts why the Crime Suppression Division police had to make the arrest of Phra Buddha Isara, the abbot of Wat Or Noi in Nakhon Pathom, before dawn of May 24 at his living quarters on the temple grounds.

• OPINION

  Yingluck trial puts govt unity drive to test

  News, Anucha Charoenpo, Published on 31/07/2017

  » Thailand's political polarisation has become intractable, dragging on for at least a decade and with no hope in sight of a speedy resolution under this military government.

• OPINION

  Police have job on their hands

  News, Anucha Charoenpo, Published on 16/07/2017

  » Following the dreadful massacre of a family in Krabi's Ao Luk district last Monday, national police chief Pol Gen Chakthip Chaijinda has responded with some quick and sound decisions. He has assigned "first-class" investigators to handle the probe into the killing, which left eight people dead and three seriously injured. He even flew to the province himself a day after the incident to lead the investigation.

• OPINION

  You have a choice

  News, Published on 17/11/2014

  » Eric Bahrt’s comment in his Nov 15 letter “Childish expectations” ends with, “But the real lesson to be learned here is that once you lose your freedoms there are no guarantees you’re going to get them back”.

• OPINION

  The raid that never was

  News, Published on 25/09/2014

  » What actually happened at a shophouse in tambon Non Tap of Nong Rua district of Khon Kaen on Sept 18 is now the subject of investigation by a panel set up on the orders of Pol Lt Gen Dejnarong Sutthicharnbancha, commissioner of the Provincial Police Region 4 Bureau.

• OPINION

  Where have all the real Ja Choeys gone?

  News, Saritdet Marukatat, Published on 03/02/2014

  » Actions speak much louder than a YouTube series, and police top brass should be aware of this. The police force is using "Ja Choey", a police dummy, to improve its increasingly bad image after becoming a target of protesters' criticism within their campaign to oust caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

• OPINION

  Where did the fish go?

  News, Published on 18/05/2013

  » Re: ''Marine parks close for reef recovery'' (BP, May 16). If the pattern of previous years is repeated, the dive sites at Surin and the Similan will not ''recover from damage caused by tourists'' as you state. What will happen is likely to be far worse. Local boats will move in, take most of the reef fish to sell at Chatuchak and elsewhere, and when the tourists return on Nov 1, we will be hearing the question, Where have all the fish gone? as we always do.

• OPINION

  Too hasty on Akeyuth case

  News, Published on 13/06/2013

  » The murder of high-profile investor and Thaksin regime opponent Akeyuth Anchanbutr has come as a shock to the public, especially his supporters, who are familiar with his whistle-blowing exposes of scandals implicating the Shinawatra clan on his Thai Insider website, including the Four Seasons Hotel incident.

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