• OPINION

  Is Ma's 'magic' really worth weaving?

  News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 26/04/2018

  » Jack Ma makes a phenomenal success again. During his high-profile trip to Thailand which gained heavy media attention, the businessman announced he would invest more than 11 billion baht in the country.

• OPINION

  Failing over rights, failing ourselves

  News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 08/09/2017

  » As they posed before the media cameras, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and his Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen were all smiles. According to their official statement, they were both looking for joint prosperity as the two countries aim to boost cooperation.

• THAILAND

  Getting the green light on electric cars

  Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 30/10/2016

  » As of Sept 30, Thailand had 52 electric sedans on the road. There are roughly 1.3 million electric cars on the roads worldwide, but with fears batteries will flatten in traffic or flooding will lead to lasting damage, Thai drivers have been slow on the uptake.

• OPINION

  Police should learn from torture saga

  News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 30/08/2021

  » The outrage committed by seven police at Nakhon Sawan Muang police station, in which they are accused of torturing and killing a drug suspect under their custody, would have disappeared unless a grisly video clip of the deed was exposed on social media.

• OPINION

  Subs plan could sink govt fortunes

  News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 24/08/2020

  » Even when the economy is thriving, with high GDP figures, we expect the government to spend rationally. Therefore, the government's decision to go ahead with the 22.5 billion baht submarine purchase at a time when the country is struggling amid economic contraction, millions are out of work because of Covid-19 restrictions and depend on state assistance, has understandably triggered outrage.

• OPINION

  Adopt the 'new normal' until vaccine is here

  News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 04/05/2020

  » Partial lifting of travel curbs in Phuket last Friday resulted in heavy traffic as many people, several of whom were migrant workers, scrambled to checkpoints in their bid to get back to their home provinces.

• OPINION

  Virus-induced racism does no one any good

  News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 10/02/2020

  » As the novel coronavirus spread from the Chinese city of Wuhan across the country and to other continents, a wave of anti-Chinese sentiment has surfaced around the world.

• OPINION

  Toxic chemicals row back to square one

  News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 04/12/2019

  » Last week, the National Hazardous Substances Committee (NHSC) left many people baffled when it did a U-turn and decided to halt the ban on the herbicide glyphosate and delay the one on the herbicide paraquat and pesticide chlorpyrifos.

• OPINION

  Don't drag the press into fake news mess

  News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 25/11/2019

  » Known for her constant criticism of the opposition, Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) MP for Ratchaburi, Pareena Kraikupt, has been unusually quiet when it comes to speaking of her controversial ownership of land plots which allegedly are located in a land-reform zone.

• OPINION

  #MeToo movement not quite there yet

  News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 20/08/2018

  » For several months, the world has witnessed the rise of the #MeToo Movement, with a number of women coming forward to speak up about their trauma as victims of sexual assault and harassment. In many parts of the world, including India and China, the movement has gone beyond sexual harassment to the call for ending sexism. In particular, women's groups in China lashed out at the state-run media which denied sexual misconduct while in reality it is well known that sexism is still an issue, with some employers specifying "men only" or "men preferred" in job ads.

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