• OPINION

  Longer hours welcome

  News, Editorial, Published on 16/10/2023

  » The government's plan to extend the opening hours of nightspots nationwide is welcome. If implemented, the move will be a tonic that revitalises the country's tourism sector. Downstream operators in tourism, such as taxi drivers, transporters and food vendors, will also benefit from the extension, creating benefits for the wider economy.

• OPINION

  Pattaya bent out of shape

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 26/10/2022

  » The lack of respect for the law evidenced during a raid at Club One Pattaya, a popular pub in Chon Buri, last weekend is nothing short of shocking.

• OPINION

  Opening an old wound

  News, Editorial, Published on 06/10/2022

  » Today the nation again commemorates the Oct 6, 1976 massacre of leftist protesters on a college campus during a violent crackdown by police and right-wing paramilitaries, one of the most tragic incidents to blight Thailand's history.

• OPINION

  Indian ban over the top

  News, Editorial, Published on 27/04/2021

  » Fact: the Covid-19 situation is India continues to worsen. Also a fact: the rising number of infections there makes India the second-worst affected country in the world, just behind the United States.

• OPINION

  Safe opening needs clarity

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 22/01/2021

  » In an abrupt move, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) on Thursday decided to ease lockdown measures for 13 business types with conditions, starting this morning.

• OPINION

  Re-opening hits snags

  News, Editorial, Published on 07/05/2020

  » Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha is mulling the next stage of partial reopening, considering a two-hour limit for visits to shopping malls and restricting the number of shoppers allowed to enter at one time.

• OPINION

  High time to come home

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 08/05/2020

  » The Prayut Chan-o-cha government is making the right move in opening the doors to more Thais stranded overseas. Now the government must accelerate that process to meet demand.

• OPINION

  Black arts at BACC

  News, Editorial, Published on 26/09/2019

  » Ongoing turmoil at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) is threatening to sabotage the city's bid to become a global cultural crossroads.

• OPINION

  Volunteers and success

  News, Editorial, Published on 04/07/2018

  » The successful search and the coming rescue of the Wild Boar football team is one of our finest moments. The 12 boys and coach were found and then broadcast on video to the nation by skilled and tenacious divers who refused to take a step or stroke backwards for 10 agonising days. They are heroes. So are the hundreds, Thai and foreigner, who supported them directly, as are the thousands who backed them actively.

• OPINION

  Rohingya plight is out of control

  News, Editorial, Published on 10/09/2017

  » The ongoing humanitarian crisis of the plight of the Rohingya people in Myanmar is raising alarm bells not just among the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) but also as far as the United Nations. The crisis that has re-emerged after a year of silence has killed hundreds, possibly many more, Rohingya people, and close to 150,000 people have had to seek shelter in neighbouring Bangladesh. About 100,000 people are awaiting to seek refuge.

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