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Supachai lays out vision for the future
Business, Published on 16/03/2013
» Supachai Panitchpakdi, the secretary-general of the UN Conference on Trade and Development, feels productivity improvement and speedy regional integration must be the top priorities of Asian countries to raise their well-being and help create a more stable world economy.
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Lottery lost its way
News, Published on 16/05/2015
» Re: “Lotto ‘tigers’ just a tale”, (Opinion, May 14).
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Fiscal unhappiness
News, Published on 08/06/2015
» In the past few months the government has declared prolonged holidays to increase domestic spending. Now the government is apparently doing the opposite by ending the national 300-baht daily minimum wage after a meeting with business owners (BP, June 6).
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Daydream believer
News, Published on 20/06/2015
» Re: “Top cop lends support to legalising casinos”, (BP June 18).
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Plan doesn’t hold water
News, Postbag, Published on 31/07/2015
» Re: “Govt targets water waste”, Editorial, July 30. So officials are going to be punished if they don’t save water by at least 10%. How quaint; how foolish. Who is going to do the monitoring? Perhaps there will now be water police to join those litter police who jump on tourists who throw cigarette butts in the streets.
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Songkran needs facts
News, Postbag, Published on 05/08/2015
» Last week, I almost wrote in praise of Songkran Grachangnetara for his exceptional suggestions on ways to solve Thailand’s development problems (“Thailand urgently needs to tackle development traps”, Opinion, July 28).
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Making a smart move
News, Postbag, Published on 15/08/2015
» The Office of Basic Education Commission (Obec) decided to introduce the Smart Classrooms project to replace the tablet PC project for students which was scrapped by the National Council for Peace and Order. The 1.17-billion-baht leftover budget, which was earlier earmarked to procure tablets for Mathayom 1 students in the North and Northeast, would be shifted and will be complemented by 3 billion baht from the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology.
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TV better than UK aid?
News, Postbag, Published on 21/08/2015
» I would like to congratulate Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha for his insightful comments, when asked about the UK’s offer of assistance in the investigation of the bombing at the Erawan Shrine (BP, Aug 20). He said: “Do you want foreign countries to intervene in every issue?... It is a breach of sovereignty... There is no need to get outsiders involved.”
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An alternate UN
News, Postbag, Published on 24/08/2015
» Re: “Need for change clear as UN turns 70”, by Jeffrey D Sachs (BP, Aug 23).
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Thais can be brutal
News, Postbag, Published on 29/08/2015
» I read with some incredulity the comment by the police general who is heading the investigation into the Aug 17 bombing, that a Thai group was unlikely to have carried out the attack because it was “too brutal for Thais to inflict on their compatriots”.
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