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  • OPINION

    The civilian factor

    News, Postbag, Published on 04/04/2016

    » Thank you for publishing my keynote address on "Democratic Governance: Striving for Thailand's New Normal" to the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand on March 23.

  • OPINION

    Stone dead

    News, Postbag, Published on 03/03/2016

    » Re: "Superstition the way?", (PostBag, March 2).

  • OPINION

    Prayut losing his cool

    News, Postbag, Published on 31/03/2016

    » Re: "PM says he won't take more jibes" (BP, March 29).

  • OPINION

    Water solution urgent

    News, Postbag, Published on 10/03/2016

    » More than half of the provinces are currently at risk of running out of water for household use this year, yet Thailand is blessed with abundant rainfall.

  • OPINION

    Puzzled by crooks list

    News, Postbag, Published on 11/03/2016

    » Re: "Government targets over 6,000 'top villains'", (BP, Mar 9).

  • OPINION

    Same story with Tibet

    News, Postbag, Published on 26/02/2016

    » Re: "China not in the wrong", (PostBag, Feb 25).

  • OPINION

    Liberalise lease laws

    News, Postbag, Published on 29/01/2016

    » An argument often heard in Thailand is that to extend leases or grant ownership rights to foreigners would betray sensitivity to the history of colonisation in Southeast Asia. But Thailand has not been subject to colonisation and is seldom seen to be overly sensitive to its neighbours' problems or transgressions, unless they directly impact the kingdom.

  • OPINION

    Publicity never bad

    News, Postbag, Published on 16/02/2016

    » Thanks for your brave attempt at clarifying what bridge is and is not (Life, Feb 15). One of the unintended consequences of the saga is that the Pattaya bridge club, small by international standards, is now the most famous in the entire world, with several hundred newspaper and TV reports and tens of thousands of comments on blogsites talking about it. The tale has also made Jeremy Watson (the organiser) and myself (the founder, in 1994) the best-known bridge players throughout the five continents even though our standards sadly fall short of the brilliance usually required for notoriety.

  • OPINION

    Having it both ways

    News, Postbag, Published on 18/02/2016

    » The Bangkok Post reported on Tuesday that monks demonstrating at Phutthamonthon have made two demands: Firstly, that Buddhism be declared the official state religion in the new constitution, and, secondly, that the prime minister should stop government agencies from interfering in matters relating to the monastic community.

  • BUSINESS

    Global oil supply more fragile than you think

    Business, Published on 31/08/2015

    » Many oil companies had trimmed their budgets heading into 2015 to deal with lower oil prices. But the rebound in April and May to US$60 per barrel from the mid-$40s suggested that the severe drop was merely temporary.

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