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Reform Thai prisons
Oped, Postbag, Published on 13/02/2024
» Re: "Illicit drug limit set for dodging jail", (BP, Feb 11).
Just a charade?
Oped, Postbag, Published on 21/02/2024
» Re: "No legal let up for 'sick' Thaksin", (BP, Feb 20).
Transit tune-up
Oped, Postbag, Published on 14/02/2024
» Re: "PM orders shakeup at airport", (BP, Feb 6).
What about us?
Oped, Postbag, Published on 15/02/2024
» Re: "Govt working on visa-free travel deal", (BP, Feb 13).
Mole-like existence
Oped, Postbag, Published on 23/01/2024
» Re: "Dark skies on agenda as haze hits early", (BP, Jan 6).
Not how I recall it
Oped, Postbag, Published on 16/01/2024
» Re: "Call to end alcohol ban", (BP, Jan 15). Is history being rewritten? 1972? In happier and somewhat simpler times, I was drinking or purchasing beer cheerfully during the afternoon back in the early 1980s and subsequently anywhere in Thailand.
14th-floor saga
Oped, Postbag, Published on 19/01/2024
» Re: "Don't call Thaksin an inmate, says Corrections Dept", (BP, Jan 16). The saga surrounding Thaksin Shinawatra has reached higher than the 14th floor of the Police Hospital, where he is being treated for multiple ailments, including claustrophobia, which he could get if he were languishing in a small prison cell.
Short-term thinking
Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/01/2024
» Re: "Govt vows cut in energy prices", (BP, Jan 2). Instead of temporarily cutting energy prices, PM Srettha should heed Lao Tzu's wise words: "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime." For example, Energy Minister Pirapan Salirathavibhaga is mulling subsidising oil for farmers. But when the handout ends, farmers will revert to their old ways.
Debt doldrums
Oped, Postbag, Published on 30/12/2023
» Re: "Will foreign investors still be wooed", (Opinion, Dec 28).