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  • THAILAND

    'Rambo' led international team of hitmen

    Published on 28/09/2013

    » NEW YORK - The American arrested in Phuket on drug trafficking charges led a group of former military snipers who killed people for money, US officials say.

  • OPINION

    Foolish pride

    News, Postbag, Published on 21/05/2023

    » Re: "MFP victory one for the history books", (Opinion, May 20).

  • WORLD

    Modern medicine in ancient Rome

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 02/07/2023

    » Doctors are generally held in high regard today, but Romans of the first century were sceptical, even scornful, of medical practitioners, many of whom ministered to ailments they did not understand. Poets especially ridiculed surgeons for being greedy, for taking sexual advantage of patients and, above all, for incompetence.

  • OPINION

    Let pupils design uniforms

    News, Postbag, Published on 06/11/2022

    » Re: "Casual dress allowed at college exams," (BP, Nov 5).

  • OPINION

    Jab move 'baffling'

    News, Postbag, Published on 22/02/2021

    » Re: "Thailand again defends decision not to join jab alliance", (BP, Feb 15).

  • BUSINESS

    Asia's century, China's year

    Asia focus, Published on 30/12/2019

    » Way back when 1999 was winding down, pundits were telling us that the Asian Century was about to dawn. That prediction has not yet been fully realised, but few would disagree that 2019 belonged to China. Over the past 12 months, the top headlines have been about the bruising trade war with America, defiant protests in Hong Kong against Beijing's tightening grip, and the rise of a surveillance state that is herding hundreds of thousands into "re-education" camps on its western fringes. Below, the Asia Focus team looks back on a busy and sometimes troubling 2019.

  • OPINION

    Kingpins remain untouched

    News, Postbag, Published on 20/05/2018

    » A <i>Bangkok Post</i> report this week showed 36 foreign nationals and one Thai were detained during tourist police-led raids on 104 locations across the country in the early hours of Thursday.

  • BUSINESS

    Ban on trans fat could boost palm oil

    Business, Published on 04/01/2018

    » The proposed ban on trans fat will force restaurants and cooking oil makers to modify their products, but the change may be a boon to the palm oil sector, an industry heavily supported by the government's Palm Oil and Palm Oil Industries Development Strategy.

  • THAILAND

    'I sold the piano and bought a camera'

    Spectrum, Published on 03/12/2017

    » Journalism requires taking risks beyond the regular (and sometimes legal) call of duty. When breaking news happens or an injustice is found lurking in the shadows, journalists are often the first ones there to shed light on the stories that impact society's most marginalised. It requires a deep passion for sharing people's stories with the rest of the world.

  • THAILAND

    Putting traditional Chinese medicine to the test

    News, Adam Minter, Published on 17/09/2015

    » Toad skins and turtle shells aren't the cures most westerners turn to when they learn they've developed cancer. But in China, the market for traditional remedies like these grew 35% last year, twice as fast as the overall anti-cancer market. Though the effectiveness of these treatments is unproven, Western doctors, elite medical institutions and pharmaceutical companies are starting to put them to the scientific test.

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