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  Having it both ways

  News, Postbag, Published on 18/02/2016

  » The Bangkok Post reported on Tuesday that monks demonstrating at Phutthamonthon have made two demands: Firstly, that Buddhism be declared the official state religion in the new constitution, and, secondly, that the prime minister should stop government agencies from interfering in matters relating to the monastic community.

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  Let's clear the air

  News, Postbag, Published on 30/09/2017

  » As a way of highlighting the government's commitment to wealth and not health I would like to bring public attention to several recent articles printed in your fine newspaper.

• News & article

  Poor deserve the help

  News, Postbag, Published on 14/01/2016

  » The government will help rubber farmers by buying rubber at an above-market price. I suggest that instead of helping everybody in the rubber sector, which would be a next-to-impossible job, the government focus on the poorest.

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  Their own worst enemy

  News, Postbag, Published on 14/02/2016

  » Re: “Army prepares to step up rocket-system technology” (BP, Feb 13).

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  Slaves to irrationality

  News, Postbag, Published on 22/12/2015

  » Despite our technological progress, all too often we humans remain slaves to irrationality, prone to be led by gut feelings rather than facts, fearing and mistrusting what we do not understand. The popular reaction to genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) seems a prime example of these tendencies. In Michael Setter’s recent goldmine of non-sequiturs on this topic, I was particularly taken by the following example:

• News & article

  Expats are a resource

  News, Postbag, Published on 26/10/2015

  » I’ve been reading about retirees in Thailand recently. Why is the Thai government so unwilling to take advantage of their expertise in their selective areas?

• News & article

  A deadly combination

  News, Postbag, Published on 29/10/2015

  » Re: “Using religion to polarise”, (Editorial, Oct 28).

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  Questionable law

  News, Postbag, Published on 12/11/2015

  » Well done to Sanitsuda Ekachai (Opinion, Nov 11) for boldly asking questions about the suspicious detention deaths of two people accused of lese majeste. Defending the good name of our monarchy is of paramount "national" importance here, but every opaque and questionable use of this law has a negative impact on the institution it is trying to defend.

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  Time to get real

  News, Postbag, Published on 19/11/2015

  » Bob Irwin in his Nov 17 letter "A partisan post" suggests the BP has changed shirts from yellow to red. Having been an avid reader and writer of letters for almost nine years, there does seem to have been a change in editorial stance over the years.

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  Looking closer at TPP

  News, Postbag, Published on 26/11/2015

  » Re: “What the TPP pact means for Thailand”, (PostBag, Nov 25). The Trans-Pacific Partnership is in part about trade, but it also directly serves the interests of multinational corporations who seek to benefit from a single regulatory environment to be established among all TPP member nations. It is not only about labour law but most significantly about labelling requirements for food and patent protection for medicines.

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