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Unfolding failure
Oped, Postbag, Published on 19/10/2023
» Re: "Old and poor: Thailand sleepwalking towards ageing crisis", (BP, Oct 16).
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Power corrupts – with help from higher-ups
Life, Patcharawalai Sanyanusin, Published on 13/02/2023
» I don't know whether our tourism will be affected by recent coverage of Taiwanese actress Charlene An's police extortion case. It made big headlines in Thai media for weeks and was reported in many international media outlets as well.
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A complex deal: Iran, nukes, oil, Israel, Russia
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 18/03/2022
» As with most re-marriages between the same partners, the participants are not exactly starry-eyed. They have just figured out that the old deal was just better than no deal at all.
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Thailand becoming even more amazing
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 14/11/2021
» With the kingdom opening up again the Tourist Authority of Thailand have announced that they are primarily interested in "quality tourists". What exactly constitutes a quality tourist is not entirely clear, but one suspects it's a polite way of saying anyone with lots of money. No riff-raff or hoi polloi please.
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The four-horse race to be Yoshihide Suga's successor
Oped, Published on 25/09/2021
» Last month, I wrote, "Unless [Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide] Suga acts quickly, more lives will be lost, and his own political position may become yet another victim of the virus." This has now come to pass.
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Jack Ma's lesson
News, Postbag, Published on 30/11/2020
» Given the poor English language proficiency of Thais, what can Jack Ma teach us about learning English?
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In Zimbabwe, literature is protest
Oped, Published on 10/10/2020
» In November 2017, when a military coup removed Robert Mugabe as Zimbabwe's head of state after 37 years of rule, euphoria gripped the whole country. Many saw it as an end to "the house of hunger" -- the title of a widely read 1978 novel by Dambudzo Marechera that described the people's suffering under tyranny.
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Crocodile tiers
Oped, Postbag, Published on 11/08/2020
» Re: "I won't be ripped off", (PostBag, Aug 6).
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Thailand needs more 'wonder women'
News, Published on 07/08/2019
» Mae Phloi, born circa 1882, is a period Thai fictional character in Si Phaen Din (The Four Reigns), a minor courtier married into an aristocratic life. And Wonder Woman is … you know, Wonder Woman. Gal Gadot, or Lynda Carter, if you grew up in the 70s. They both have incredibly long legs.
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