• OPINION

  Care across lifespans

  Oped, Postbag, Published on 05/04/2024

  » Re: "Gender gaps in politics and business", (Opinion, March 30).

• OPINION

  Vested interests

  Oped, Postbag, Published on 05/03/2024

  » Re: "A B1tn bridge to success", (BP, Feb 25).

• OPINION

  Poor playgrounds

  Oped, Postbag, Published on 18/11/2023

  » A sign of a thriving city is one that provides safe and accessible playgrounds for its children. While Bangkok is to be commended for its plans to implement over 100 pocket parks, the state of many existing playgrounds in our existing parks leaves much to be desired.

• OPINION

  Double standards

  Oped, Postbag, Published on 09/09/2023

  » Re: "Chadchart fumes as AC project nixed", (BP, Sept 8).

• OPINION

  Take on the junta

  Oped, Postbag, Published on 11/12/2021

  » Re: "Junta court hands Suu Kyi 4 years for incitement," (BP, Dec 7).

• OPINION

  Economic puzzle

  Oped, Postbag, Published on 06/11/2021

  » Re: "4 new holidays to lift economy," (BP, Nov 5).

• OPINION

  Incomplete strategy

  News, Postbag, Published on 28/03/2020

  » There is an incompatibility between closing bars but not closing public transport, which raises the question of the effectiveness of the current measures that have been taken.

• OPINION

  Mass testing best

  News, Postbag, Published on 21/03/2020

  » The most effective and cheapest way of controlling the Covid-19 pandemic will be to conduct mass testing of the population, as urged by eminent French infectious diseases expert Dr Didier Raoult. He has pointed out that cheaply mass produced testing equipment is already available and is being used effectively in South Korea. Countries, including Thailand, should build up this mass testing capability as fast as it can and test as many people as possible. That way it will be possible to isolate only those who test positive and it also makes it possible to treat those who start showing symptoms early which boosts the chance of a favourable outcome for them. This will be far more effective than locking down entire populations of people who are not infected and causing a massive economic dislocation in the process. In Thailand's case, it may cost US$325 million (10.5 billion baht) to test the entire population, but that would be a drop in the bucket compared to the $8 billion cost of a 5% decline in GDP.

• OPINION

  Trumping the truth

  News, Postbag, Published on 23/10/2018

  » In recent years it seems that politicians are so ready to offer up any nonsense as their version of the truth that the average citizen is finding it ever harder to know what to believe.

• OPINION

  Land of smiles is grim

  News, Postbag, Published on 10/09/2018

  » Re: "Expat survey puts Thailand fourth in Asean", (Online, Sept 8).

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