• News & article

  Postbag: High performance puzzling

  News, Published on 12/10/2014

  » Please forgive my lack of modesty. I get quite a smug feeling when I complete all three of the Bangkok Post crosswords at the weekend. The English-style cryptic on Saturdays is quite different to the American-style, two of which appear on Sunday. I think the description of "easy" for the smaller of the two Sunday offerings is flippant at best.

• News & article

  Liberalise lease laws

  News, Postbag, Published on 29/01/2016

  » An argument often heard in Thailand is that to extend leases or grant ownership rights to foreigners would betray sensitivity to the history of colonisation in Southeast Asia. But Thailand has not been subject to colonisation and is seldom seen to be overly sensitive to its neighbours' problems or transgressions, unless they directly impact the kingdom.

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  Publicity never bad

  News, Postbag, Published on 16/02/2016

  » Thanks for your brave attempt at clarifying what bridge is and is not (Life, Feb 15). One of the unintended consequences of the saga is that the Pattaya bridge club, small by international standards, is now the most famous in the entire world, with several hundred newspaper and TV reports and tens of thousands of comments on blogsites talking about it. The tale has also made Jeremy Watson (the organiser) and myself (the founder, in 1994) the best-known bridge players throughout the five continents even though our standards sadly fall short of the brilliance usually required for notoriety.

• News & article

  Having it both ways

  News, Postbag, Published on 18/02/2016

  » The Bangkok Post reported on Tuesday that monks demonstrating at Phutthamonthon have made two demands: Firstly, that Buddhism be declared the official state religion in the new constitution, and, secondly, that the prime minister should stop government agencies from interfering in matters relating to the monastic community.

• News & article

  Same story with Tibet

  News, Postbag, Published on 26/02/2016

  » Re: "China not in the wrong", (PostBag, Feb 25).

• News & article

  Blessing in disguise?

  News, Postbag, Published on 29/03/2016

  » With the failure of negotiations with the Chinese government, the junta plans to drastically chop the length of the delayed Thai-Sino high-speed train to just a third of the original plan.

• News & article

  Prayut losing his cool

  News, Postbag, Published on 31/03/2016

  » Re: "PM says he won't take more jibes" (BP, March 29).

• News & article

  No adjusting the data

  News, Postbag, Published on 06/04/2016

  » Based on the size and scope of the Panama Papers leak and the fact that it will keep investigators busy for years, it undoubtedly deserves the acronym PPL.

• News & article

  Power of finance

  News, Postbag, Published on 08/04/2016

  » The Panama Papers leak reinforces the long-held suspicion that it is financial power that is shaping this world.

• News & article

  Define 'referendum'

  News, Postbag, Published on 13/04/2016

  » Re: "State spies out on prowl for referendum mischief", (BP, April 11).

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