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Interrogate The ‘Facts’
News, Postbag, Published on 27/09/2015
» Re: “Confessions are key” (PostBag, Sept 26).
Cronyism runs deep in our society
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 29/09/2015
» Three incidents during the past week point to one crucial problem that will keep Thailand from advancing, despite it being elected head of the G77 bloc of developing countries at the United Nations.
Agribusiness behind haze
News, Editorial, Published on 30/09/2015
» Indonesia's infamous haze has caused so much trouble in our region that Singapore is mulling legal action. Long proud of its own record of cleanliness, the city-state is often viewed through a blanket of unhealthy smog it has no direct control over. Singaporean authorities have served legal notices to five large Indonesian companies. At least one of them -- Asia Pulp and Paper -- is a multinational and would be affected by even a local Singapore court decision.
Colour-coded politics rears ugly head amid bomb probe
News, Nattaya Chetchotiros, Published on 01/10/2015
» Before he left his post as national police chief, Pol Gen Somyot Poompunmuang dropped a political bombshell by implicating the anti-government red shirts in the Erawan shrine bombing.
The great trans-Pacific free-trade charade
Joseph Stiglitz, Published on 04/10/2015
» As negotiators and ministers from the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries meet in Atlanta in an effort to finalise the details of the sweeping new Trans-Pacific Partnership, some sober analysis is warranted. The biggest regional trade and investment agreement in history is not what it seems.
Coal is not clean
News, Postbag, Published on 03/10/2015
» EGAT and Banpu Plc must be very pleased with their PR campaign if the large headline in your esteemed newspaper (BP, Sept 21) is any measure.
Honour pledges, PM
News, Postbag, Published on 06/10/2015
» I don’t want to diminish Vint Chavala’s pleasure at the prime minister’s achievements at the United Nations (PostBag, Oct 4), but nevertheless need to point out that Thailand was actually proposed as next chairman of the G77 during Yingluck Shinawatra’s tenure as premier. But I suppose it was a relief the vote still went Thailand’s way, despite the country’s dubious distinction of being a military dictatorship.
Double standards
News, Postbag, Published on 08/10/2015
» My congratulations to Maj Chalermchai Matchaklam, paroled after 14 years in jail for murdering the then-Yasothon governor. If he continues his good behaviour, he need not serve the remainder of his sentence.
Seeing politics via the Chuvit phenomenon
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 09/10/2015
» As Thailand's popular rule is in deep freeze under an undisguised military dictatorship, few dare to speak out for fear of intimidation and temporary detention. One exception for all Thailand watchers to follow is Chuvit Kamolvisit. What he has been saying speaks volumes about the current state of Thai politics.
Crippling US economy is a pipe dream
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 01/08/2015
» Besides sleeping pills, we need a daily dose of fantasy to make life tolerable. A fantasy that we could bankrupt the US by boycotting American products after the cocky imperialist has branded us a hotbed of human trafficking (Starbucks and McDonald’s for starters, but excluding Facebook because that would be masochistic).