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  • OPINION

    Well, after that things can only get better

    News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 27/12/2020

    » What a dreadful year. We found ourselves having to tackle a whole new vocabulary and most of the words were enough to make even the most optimistic among us depressed. It all began in March with "self-isolation", a horrible expression inferring you have become a hermit, hidden away, exiled, incommunicado, which in fact is exactly what we were.

  • OPINION

    Face slappers beware

    News, Postbag, Published on 27/11/2018

    » Re: "Angry smoker apologises for slapping hotel staffer", (BP, Nov 24).

  • LIFE

    Looking back to look forward

    B Magazine, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 16/09/2018

    » With two successful horror films -- Chanthaly and Dearest Sister -- under her belt, Laos' first female director Mattie Do is currently engrossed in shooting her third film, a science-fiction thriller called Bor Mi Vanh Chark (The Long Walk), at a location that's a 30-minute drive from country capital Vientiane.

  • OPINION

    All in the planning

    News, Postbag, Published on 11/01/2018

    » In a Jan 9 report on the withdrawal of plans for a "skywalk" over the Chao Phraya River, Deputy Bangkok governor Jumpol Sampaopol stated that "similar walkways had been built in many big cities including London and Paris".

  • OPINION

    Perils of police reform

    News, Postbag, Published on 08/07/2017

    » I'm glad that PM Prayut Chan-o-cha is reforming the police at long last, but he shouldn't reinvent the wheel. In 2006, then-prime minister Gen Surayud Chulanont, former army chief and member of our beloved King Rama IX's Privy Council, appointed retired Pol Gen Vasit Dejkunjorn, former chief of police, to head a distinguished commission for this very purpose.

  • THAILAND

    Project Singapore gathers pace

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 23/04/2017

    » Bangkok is a semi-province under the central regime, "governed" (literally) by a police general, Aswin Kwanmuang. He was working at City Hall when the general prime minister tapped him on the shoulder last October and dubbed him Baron of Bangkok, lord of all that the military regime doesn't want to bother with.

  • ADVANCED NEWS

    Luxury airline food for rich & famous

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 02/05/2013

    » Billionaire's wife suddenly craves rare food 15 minutes before her private jet leaves Bangkok? Time for luxury service at Bangkok's private jet terminal.

  • ADVANCED NEWS

    Rubber craze

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 11/02/2011

    » Skyrocketing rubber prices have triggered a rush to plant rubber trees.

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