• OPINION

  Tax havens are fuelling autocracy

  Oped, Published on 23/02/2023

  » People have been trying to dodge paying taxes since time immemorial, but globalisation has turned tax avoidance and evasion, as well as money laundering, into a lucrative business model. Over the past few decades, offshore tax havens such as the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Cyprus, and Ireland have enabled corporations and wealthy individuals to conceal profits and private wealth on an unprecedented scale.

• OPINION

  Blueprint on how to communicate on climate change

  Oped, Published on 20/08/2021

  » On Aug 9, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a group of leading scientists and academics, published its "6th Assessment Report". While boasting over 14,000 individual studies, the spotlight was on its headline statement's very first sentence: "It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land."

• OPINION

  Reclaiming American greatness

  Oped, Published on 17/09/2020

  » Julia Jackson, the mother of Jacob Blake, a young black man from Kenosha, Wisconsin, who was shot seven times in the back by police, got it right when she said, "America is great when we behave greatly." Sadly, for the past four years, President Donald Trump has been leading America in the exact opposite direction.

• OPINION

  Fanaticism, hate speech and Buddhism

  Oped, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 09/09/2020

  » If your ultra-royalist friends say we need to uphold the Nation-Religion-Monarchy state ideology to protect the country's peace, order and national identity, ask them whose nation and what religion they are talking about.

• OPINION

  Poor suffer from smog created by uncaring rich

  News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 04/02/2019

  » Trying to find N95 respirators -- a type of facial mask that can deal with small particles or PM2.5 -- is a troublesome task for many people living in smog-hit Bangkok.

• OPINION

  Smoked out? Not yet

  Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 19/11/2018

  » No one disputes that cigarettes can kill. Each year smoking accounts for 7 million deaths worldwide -- that's seven times more than those attributable to the world's deadliest animal, the mosquito.

• OPINION

  Mixing monks with money corrupts clergy

  News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 20/06/2018

  » Fear and fury is gripping the clergy. Following the arrest and defrocking of high-profile monks for temple corruption, temples nationwide are fearful of financial inspections while monks are up in arms against the idea of prohibiting them from receiving money from the laity.

• OPINION

  Consumers made to pay for government sins

  News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 14/09/2017

  » Is this government becoming broke and hatching a new "sin tax" plan to force allegedly sinful consumers like us to pay more? I couldn't help but raise this speculation with a friend over possible price hikes in alcohol, cigarettes and coffee, when new excise tax rates take effect this Saturday.

• OPINION

  It's enough to make you turn to drink

  News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 26/06/2017

  » As Buddhist Lent approaches, the puritan ethic of alcohol abstinence is being brushed-up and preached again. As if the many insensible laws curbing alcohol consumption in the nanny state of Thailand are not enough, the Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth) is spending tax money on its annual campaign pursuing unrealistic goals with a laughable strategy.

• OPINION

  Conscripted to fight an invisible war

  News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 08/04/2017

  » Until April 12, the biggest annual lottery will keep Thai men on edge: the military draft.

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