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Do 'road safety' right
News, Editorial, Published on 31/12/2020
» In a bid to curb traffic fatalities during the forthcoming New Year holidays, the Prayut Chan-o-cha government has launched a centre to ensure road safety and accident reduction.
Zoo flaws need taming
Oped, Editorial, Published on 17/10/2020
» It has been two weeks since the fatal shooting of Suriya Saengpong, head of the Zoological Park Organization of Thailand (ZPOT), while on an inspection trip to Songkhla Zoo. The gunman, who was the victim's subordinate, committed suicide after the killing.
Cheerleading without fans
News, Editorial, Published on 11/10/2020
» It seems like the Royal Thai Army can't catch a break lately.
Toxic tea will not stamp out critics
News, Editorial, Published on 23/08/2020
» Early Thursday morning, a routine flight from Siberia to the Russian capital Moscow made an emergency landing in Omsk after a passenger, Alexei Navalny, a fierce anti-corruption campaigner and Kremlin critic, fell violently ill after drinking a cup of tea.
Boss' great flight from justice
News, Editorial, Published on 26/07/2020
» In December 2010, 16-year-old Praewa, who didn't have a licence, crashed her Honda Civic into a passenger van on a Bangkok expressway, killing nine. She belongs to a prominent family. Her punishment? A two-year suspended sentence.
Muzzle on free speech persists
News, Editorial, Published on 26/04/2020
» The erosion of free expression continues in Thailand. In Reporters Without Borders (RSF)'s annual 2020 World Press Freedom Index, Thailand dropped four spots, ranking 140th out of 180 countries on the open media barometer, placing it one spot below Myanmar.
UN must act to defuse tensions
News, Editorial, Published on 05/01/2020
» After the killing of Iran's top military commander Maj Gen Qassem Soleimani by the US on Friday morning, the world is gripped with worry over a new round of proxy war between the world power and its arch enemy.
Fatal flaws in speed strategy
News, Editorial, Published on 02/01/2020
» The high traffic-related death toll during the New Year celebrations should make the Prayut Chan-o-cha government realise that a plan to increase speed limits may not really be a good idea.
Breaking the PM2.5 cycle
News, Editorial, Published on 25/12/2019
» Thailand is notorious for its ad hoc responses to recurring and foreseeable problems-- from seasonal flooding and drought to fatal road accidents during holidays. In recent years, dangerously unhealthy smog caused by fine dust particles known as PM2.5 has become another predictable threat that has drawn some recent "long-term" measures from the government, though these appear to be too broad.
Conscription's time is up
News, Editorial, Published on 16/11/2019
» There are many good reasons why the Future Forward Party's (FFP) bill to replace military conscription with a system of voluntary enrolment should be passed by parliament. One of them is that it will, for the first time, let young men, especially those from poor families, decide their own future. Another is that it will force the military to re-assess the usefulness and review its use of this chunk of the defence personnel, who several times have suffered grave human rights abuses and fatalities.