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Bangkok Port 'a viable casino site'
News, Post Reporters, Published on 25/01/2025
» The Transport Ministry has given the green light for Bangkok Port to house an integrated entertainment complex.
Hotel fined B1.3m for removed gargoyle statue
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 29/12/2023
» The company operating the Bazaar Hotel Bangkok has paid a fine of 1.3 million baht for allowing Khru Kai Kaew, a controversial half-god, half-demon represented by a gargoyle-like sculpture, to be installed on its rented premises.
Court asked to help shift 'demon' statue
News, Post Reporters, Published on 26/08/2023
» A major shareholder of the Bazaar Hotel Bangkok has petitioned a court for the removal of the controversial Khru Kai Kaeo statue from its premises on Ratchadaphisek Road.
13 warrants issued over 'macau888'
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 06/02/2023
» The Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants against 13 suspects, including alleged owner Chaiwat "Benz Demon" Kajornboonthavorn, relating to the macau888 gambling network.
Prayut invokes epic myth to hammer opposition
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 18/02/2022
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha hit back at opposition parties on the first of a two-day general debate on Thursday, dismissing accusations that the government had abused its power and citing an epic Hindu tale about good triumphing over evil known as the Ramakien.
Throwing paint is not peaceful protest
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 31/08/2020
» The throwing of blue paint by Bottom Blues Band lead singer Chaiamorn Kaewwiboonpan at a police officer during an anti-establishment rally in front of Samran Rat police station on Friday is definitely not a form of "paint as protest", a symbolic public act listed in The Politics of Nonviolent Action by Gene Sharp.
Don't let the pandemic turn into pandemonium
News, Sandro Calvani and Apichai Sunchindah, Published on 04/08/2020
» In the 17th-century epic poem Paradise Lost, the English poet, John Milton, recounts the biblical story of the temptation by Satan to abuse the fruits of the creation, leading to the fall of Adam and Eve and their punishment of being expelled from the Garden of Eden. In describing such a dramatic change of the human condition, Milton coined the term "pandemonium". It literally means abode of all demons (or hell), from the Greek word pan-, "all", and daimon, "demon(s)". In fact, in that story the cause of the devastating crisis is demoniac bad advice given and accepted by the then two human beings. After the recent experience of one of the worst global calamities of our time, due to Covid-19, many governments are trying to contain humankind's risks of losing the paradise of the modern world order and the promised quality of life in the third millennium.
New life for THAI
News, Postbag, Published on 26/05/2020
» Re: "THAI tries to stick the landing" (BP, May 18).
Tantrum turns deadly
News, Post Reporters, Published on 09/01/2020
» The opinion piece, "Was the killing of Iran's Soleimani justifiable?" on Jan 8 misses the point. The point is that Donald Trump was feeling frustrated about a number of things (being impeached, the attack on the embassy in Iraq) and some dim-witted general gave him the option of lashing out to express his frustration and he did. Afterwards, all his enablers are trying to make it sound like some rational, well thought out decision, but in fact, it wasn't much different than a small spoiled child impulsively lashing out in anger because things weren't going his way.
Putting out the growing wildfire of hate speech
News, Antonio Guterres, Published on 29/06/2019
» Around the world, hate is on the march.