• OPINION

  Tax havens are fuelling autocracy

  Oped, Published on 23/02/2023

  » People have been trying to dodge paying taxes since time immemorial, but globalisation has turned tax avoidance and evasion, as well as money laundering, into a lucrative business model. Over the past few decades, offshore tax havens such as the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Cyprus, and Ireland have enabled corporations and wealthy individuals to conceal profits and private wealth on an unprecedented scale.

• OPINION

  The trials and tribulations of Melania Trump

  News, Maureen Dowd, Published on 23/04/2024

  » Outside my office, there is a picture of the Slovenian Sphinx visiting the Egyptian Sphinx, taken during a 2018 photo shoot in Giza nine months after Melania Trump was blindsided by the steamy news about her husband and Stormy Daniels.

• OPINION

  Echoing a film's murderous blueprint

  News, New York Times, Published on 12/08/2016

  » The three miners befriended a lonely, luckless man and offered him work down an iron mine in eastern China.

• OPINION

  School policy merits praise

  News, Editorial, Published on 17/10/2018

  » The Ministry of Education has delivered a rare and welcome policy change for students. A laudable new regulation that was delivered out of the blue addresses the problem of teenage pregnancies in a positive manner. This commendable decision comes in the wake of a serious black eye to the system.

• OPINION

  Trump associates' legal woes have a political cost

  News, Published on 23/08/2018

  » It's the kind of momentous bad news that rarely happens to any presidency: On Tuesday, Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was found guilty on eight counts of tax fraud and other crimes, while the president's former attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, admitted he made illegal campaign contributions at the instruction of then-candidate Trump.

• OPINION

  Subs plan could sink govt fortunes

  News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 24/08/2020

  » Even when the economy is thriving, with high GDP figures, we expect the government to spend rationally. Therefore, the government's decision to go ahead with the 22.5 billion baht submarine purchase at a time when the country is struggling amid economic contraction, millions are out of work because of Covid-19 restrictions and depend on state assistance, has understandably triggered outrage.

• OPINION

  More thoughts on the post-Covid world

  Oped, Chartchai Parasuk, Published on 27/08/2020

  » News about Covid-19 vaccine development in Russia and other countries offers a ray of hope the pandemic could be ending soon and the world economy may return to normal.

• OPINION

  Temples no longer safe for children

  News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 30/10/2019

  » News about monks' sexual misconduct has become so frequent that it no longer shocks. But the latest scandal involving a rapist, paedophile monk makes my blood boil.

• OPINION

  Youth start clock ticking on old guard

  News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 03/03/2018

  » Let's hand the torch to the young, for the world of cynical adults requires a dose of youthful idealism.

• OPINION

  Our ‘saviours’ say shut up, put up, pay up

  News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/04/2015

  » Death and taxes are the only two sure things in life, so the joke goes. I had a nice time at the tax office last week, three days before the deadline. It wasn’t a “fun time”, which is impossible, but nice enough in my dealings with a courteous tax lady who performed her arithmetic gifts with a pencil and calculator, smiling and helpful in her office full of paper and weary-looking taxpayers — some of them street vendors and odd-jobbers, I gathered. There’s something Kafka-esque about a visit to the Revenue Office: The mild dread (of what?), the anxious wait and, above all, the wild guess about the bureaucratic labyrinth that delivers our payment into the invisible state coffers.

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