• OPINION

  About politics

  News, Published on 14/05/2016

  » The referendum result may well be the deciding factor in whether the next general election slated for next year will see Pheu Thai take its place in the starting line-up.

• OPINION

  Lost in the post

  News, Published on 26/01/2013

  » I read with interest your article regarding the expansion of the Thai Post Office International Parcel Service. It sounds absolutely great, let's hope it works better than their current core business. I live 50 kilometres north of Nakhon Sawan.

• OPINION

  Postbag: City poll causes road hell

  News, Published on 06/02/2013

  » I have a suggestion that I think has some merit. I believe that the Bangkok governor candidate who has the fewest of these great big campaign posters that block the view from bus stops should automatically be declared the winner. That person at least shows that he has some regard for the common folk on the street. And at some stops it is virtually impossible to watch for approaching buses without standing on the street.

• OPINION

  Developing by managing demographics

  News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 27/09/2019

  » Once upon a time, it was feared that the earth would become overcrowded and its inhabitants unable to find enough to eat. This fear has not only proved unfounded but it has gone in the opposite direction. What almost every nation fears now is a decline in inhabitants as the birth rate cannot keep up with the longevity of the aged and elderly, imposing unsustainable burdens on working-age segments of the population. Every region is afflicted with this demographic predicament, especially in affluent societies where the birth rate decline is acute, such as Japan.

• OPINION

  Invite the cambodians to return

  News, Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 22/06/2014

  » Myanmar, Lao and Cambodian workers — legal or illegal — we need them back. Their fears are understandable, having come from countries that were torn apart by civil wars, countries that have brutal histories of military regimes.

• OPINION

  World heritage site status threatened

  News, Published on 27/04/2014

  » The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has stepped up a war against the logging of Siamese rosewood. For years, the illicit trade of this pricey wood has been rampant in the Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex, a world heritage site, in the country's eastern region.

• OPINION

  Give cabbies a fare go

  News, Published on 31/08/2013

  » Re: "Cabbies seek to stall gas price hike" (BP, Aug 27).

• OPINION

  Bird risk far from paltry

  News, Published on 09/02/2013

  » Dr Nithi Mahanonda (''No need to chicken out'', Life, Feb 5) makes good points about the health problems associated with eating chicken.

• OPINION

  How about a few new laws for Thailand?

  News, Songkran Grachangnetara, Published on 19/01/2013

  » The following are some of the new laws which I think if judiciously implemented would make a lot of sense and bring happiness to the general public. No doubt readers will be able to come up with some of their own new laws too.

• OPINION

  Cambodian clarification

  News, Published on 17/11/2012

  » I am writing with regard to Gregory Poling and Alexandria Sander's commentary, ''EAS offers Cambodia chance to restore its reputation'', (Nov 14), which is full of ignorance and misunderstanding.

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