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  • OPINION

    O-net morality test serves no purpose

    News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 12/01/2018

    » In a bid to ensure Thai children grow up as decent citizens, the authorities have come up with an ambitious plan: to amend a national exam to weigh up their goodness and morality.

  • OPINION

    A bit of convenience is a breath of fresh airport

    Life, Peerawat Jariyasombat, Published on 05/02/2015

    » Airport taxis have yet again become the talk of the town. Last month, when a Japanese man took an airport taxi, instead of being charged the standard 35 baht fee, the driver insisted on a starting rate of 75 baht.

  • OPINION

    Postbag: Losing his religion

    News, Published on 24/07/2014

    » Re: “Defending Buddhism” (PostBag, July 23). I thank David Brown for clarifying the meaning of a religion.

  • OPINION

    New court off to flying start

    News, Published on 28/09/2013

    » Almost lost amid the congratulations and backslapping that accompanied the opening of Suvarnabhumi airport's new tourist court this week were some scary statistics. In the first eight months of this year, as many as 1,980 users of the seven-year-old terminal tried to file legal complaints after falling victim to a scam, fraud or other form of criminal activity. Granted, this is only a tiny percentage of the 150,000 passengers using the facility daily but it is safe to assume other victims simply suffered in silence and decided to spend future vacations elsewhere.

  • OPINION

    Pickpockets, loose women, boasters and bluffers

    News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 26/05/2013

    » One memorable scene from the 1968 hit musical Oliver! featured Fagin teaching urchins the art of pickpocketing to the tune of You've Got To Pick A Pocket or Two. Fagin's message seems to have been adopted worldwide, as there is hardly a country that doesn't have a pickpocket problem, although one suspects there aren't too many in North Korea. According to the Daily Mail, in Britain alone last year there were an estimated 1,700 cases a day.

  • OPINION

    Paradise lost as evil rears its ugly head

    News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 05/01/2013

    » In my heyday, I was at the fabled Koh Phangan's full moon parties - three times - where I practised English, Swedish, Spanish, German and Hebrew, then walked the moonlit, vomit-strewn beach, enjoyed (meaning eating) local mushrooms, lit a bonfire of international camaraderie and watched the psychochemical clouds drift like memories into the dark Gulf of Thailand.

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