• OPINION

  Keep an eye on wages

  News, Editorial, Published on 01/09/2022

  » As the government last week approved long-awaited increases in the minimum wage, it must also roll out staunch measures to ensure the cost of living is well under control, with minimal impact on the public.

• OPINION

  Fight the PM2.5 war for clean air now

  Oped, Published on 12/05/2021

  » The annual toxic haze season in over, and now that the public has into forgotten about it, there's another health hazard -- known as Covid-19 -- to worry about.

• OPINION

  Why is the world economy slowing?

  News, Published on 23/06/2020

  » According to Bank of Korea's figures for 2019, South Korea's household debt is rising by an estimated US$100,000 (3.1 million baht) every minute, amounting to a whopping US$1.7 trillion today. Every day, more than 100 South Koreans are declared bankrupt. Meanwhile, the government's debt has skyrocketed to a total of US$693 billion, increasing by 111 trillion won (2.83 trillion baht) in just six months in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

• OPINION

  Dust in the wind and down the throat

  News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 06/10/2019

  » You know there's something amiss in Bangkok when you wake up to the sounds of birds coughing. Well maybe it wasn't quite that bad, but this week our feathered friends sounded decidedly under the weather. So it came as no surprise to read the gloomy headlines about "toxic smog" returning to Bangkok.

• OPINION

  Gearing up for an EV world

  Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 18/09/2017

  » It's welcome news for the environment when China sets out to ban the production and sale of gasoline and diesel vehicles. Even though there's no definite timetable yet, the announcement by the world's largest automobile market is already diving up the shares of automakers and battery makers in Asia, including the Chinese electric vehicle (EV) leader BYD.

• OPINION

  Car revolution spells end of combustion engine era

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 15/09/2017

  » France and the United Kingdom recently announced that they will ban the sales of petrol and diesel-engined cars from 2040. The Lower House of the Dutch parliament has passed a law banning such sales from 2025. India says it will institute a similar ban by 2030.

• OPINION

  BRT chop a step in wrong direction

  News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 08/02/2017

  » At first I thought it was the seven-year itch that made the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) attempt to break up with the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) service. But subsequently, I've realised it has something to do with City Hall's unequal treatment of different groups of commuters.

• OPINION

  With our tuk tuks, let's copy the Dutch

  News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 02/02/2017

  » Love at first sight was how a group of Dutch people referred to their affection for tuk tuks when they spotted the vehicles while in Thailand in the early 2000s.

• OPINION

  The kindness of strangers

  Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 12/05/2014

  » My faith in humankind has been restored. And all because of a car breakdown.

• OPINION

  Hey big spender, save a little space for me

  Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 10/07/2013

  » This month my trustworthy Japanese car turns 15. With so many scratches and dents on her body, she's like an old lady with lots of wrinkles and hollows. The poor car surely deserves restoration, if not retirement. But her engine still runs strong, and it would be sad to see her being sent to a scrapyard and treated as junk.

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