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  • OPINION

    A painful ride with a certified horn honker

    Roger Crutchley, Published on 04/02/2024

    » Despite the frustration of sitting in endless jams, I've always felt Bangkok motorists display remarkable restraint when it comes to using horns. Unlike many cities in the world it is rare to hear a chorus of angry car klaxons. Things are admittedly a bit different on the provincial highways with buses and trucks not averse to giving a blast on their air horns with the clear message "Get out of the way."

  • OPINION

    Poster boys and girls near final straight

    News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 30/04/2023

    » Try as you might you just cannot escape the forthcoming election with all those posters dangling from lampposts and the few remaining trees. The posters have been there for several months now and some are beginning to look a little the worse for wear, especially after this week's welcome rain in Bangkok. There is possibly nothing less appealing than a soggy political poster... apart from a soggy politician.

  • OPINION

    Gifts That Give Back

    Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 17/12/2021

    » Are you feeling generous this holiday season? Perhaps, you're planning to buy gifts for your loved ones but, at the same time, you can extend your good wishes to those less fortunate than you. Here are a few gift ideas to spread the spirit of giving.

  • OPINION

    Breaking down the global supply chain breakdown

    Oped, Published on 30/11/2021

    » Rescuing Christmas from the supply-chain Grinch won't be easy. To make it happen, policymakers and business leaders need to take an expansive approach, paying attention to logistics beyond our clogged-up harbours.

  • OPINION

    You make your own luck in this life

    Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 14/09/2020

    » Tham Nakha (Naga Cave), which was unveiled as a new attraction in Phu Langka National Park in Bung Kan province two months ago, was closed indefinitely last week by an order of the Natural Resources and Environment Minister Varawut Silpa-archa.

  • OPINION

    Durian for the heart in far South

    News, Supapohn Kanwerayotin, Published on 14/07/2020

    » 'From Bannang Sata Yala," along with PromptPay details for contactless payment, read the sign at the back of a pickup truck parked across the street from the mosque next to Thong Lor Metropolitan Police Station. This is a find on my neighbourhood roaming day. Because at this time of year I would usually have set myself up in Pattani as a launchpad for the annual durian eating season in three southern border provinces. In my pre-corona blueprint, the imagined highlight would be an-all durian day along multiple stalls lining the roadside of Ton Sai, a spot in Narathiwat where a work trip in July 2019 placed me in the divine durian abode. A large fruit picked, weighed and cut open by a lady vendor produced the prettiest plump golden mounds -- the most delicious durian I have ever wrapped my taste buds around. Amid oohs and aahs from Thai colleagues who had actually just finished another fruit before our arrival, plus the expression on my face while relishing that mouthful, must have boosted the courage in a foreign expert I was interpreting for to brave an encounter. Still, that pile of terrifying spiky fruit apparently overwhelmed his other colleagues who opted out. A globetrotting development expert, he nodded his approval as he finished his piece with no trace of aversion.

  • OPINION

    Take action on monkey use

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 08/07/2020

    » Denial alone won't help. To disprove the allegations of monkey abuse in Thailand's coconut business, the Commerce Ministry has no other option but to face up to the matter.

  • OPINION

    Life in Equations

    Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 01/06/2018

    » Here are a few funny equations to summarise the Bangkok way of life to lighten the mood, when the weather is grey and gloomy.

  • OPINION

    The paradox of pity

    Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 21/05/2018

    » Thais are notoriously hopeless when it comes to the songsarn factor. Translated to English, the word means to pity or feel sorry for -- a trait ingrained in Thais as much as to be sabai sabai and never on time.

  • OPINION

    Life without populism

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 06/05/2018

    » Once upon a time in a land very, very far away with a "government by the people, for the people" there was a plan to fix recalcitrant taxi drivers and make them pick up passengers, politely, and then to reward the drivers with a fare increase. And that plan was carried out in the faraway country, and passengers were happy to reward deserving, hard-working, uncomplaining taxi drivers.

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