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  Unabated madness

  News, Postbag, Published on 15/04/2016

  » Here in Pattaya, Songkran apparently started on Tuesday on Beach Road but unfortunately it has also started to infect the roads back from the sea. Foreigners are roaming the streets and dominating the bars firing high-powered water guns into the faces of motorcyclists.

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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.

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  Lessons from history

  News, Postbag, Published on 16/04/2016

  » I have just finished reading the third novel in Robert Harris's brilliant trilogy based on the life of Cicero. It's about politicians who struggle to practise and defend democracy, but fail because of the corruptibility and greed of many of them. The politicians are divided, and some favour allowing the all-powerful general, Julius Caesar, to take control of the empire.

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  Makes no sense at all

  News, Postbag, Published on 22/04/2016

  » In order to "increase customer satisfaction", a Thai bank, which previously issued debit cards allowing people to withdraw cash at the ATMs of many other banks, has now issued a newer version which only allows withdrawals from the issuing bank.

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  Think more carefully

  News, Postbag, Published on 15/02/2016

  » T Hinker ("Abused by the men in orange", Postbag, Feb 14) is accurate in referring to the corrupt commercialism of Thai Buddhism. But when he refers to Buddhism as a "simple philosophy of naive intent" it is he who is being naive.

• News & article

  Enterprising temples

  News, Postbag, Published on 29/04/2016

  » Re: "Department defends Tiger Temple Co licence", (BP, April 27).

• News & article

  A form of madness

  News, Postbag, Published on 02/05/2016

  » John Wells in his April 30 letter, "90-day form frenzy", suggests immigration officials invite ridicule on the country because of a recent form.

• News & article

  There must be reform

  News, Postbag, Published on 22/02/2016

  » Re: "Of military, monks and an unholy mess" (Commentary, Feb 20).

• News & article

  The rich get richer...

  News, Postbag, Published on 01/01/2016

  » Re: "Reform under this regime is an uphill task", (Opinion, Dec 23).

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  Don’t be so surprised

  News, Postbag, Published on 04/01/2016

  » Re: “Thais fear AC English barrier”, (BP, Jan 2).

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