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Dubious tax plan
Oped, Postbag, Published on 06/10/2025
» Re: "Minister pledges to finally implement B300 tourism tax", (Business, Oct 4).
UN turns 80 amid wave of global crises
Oped, John J Metzler, Published on 02/07/2025
» Amid wars, global strife and massive refugee dislocations, the current global scene is overwhelmed with crises ranging from the Middle East to Ukraine and a dozen African conflicts, which rarely make the news. The contemporary world situation in many ways resembles 1945 and the end of WWII. There's a strange deja vu of a history most people do not know or would rather forget.
Painting Pakistan
Oped, Postbag, Published on 30/04/2025
» Re: "India and Pakistan troops exchange fire", (World, April 28).
The Houthi threat to global shipping
Oped, John J. Metzler, Published on 28/03/2025
» Amidst the unpredictable arc of crisis shadowing the Middle East, the systemic and sustained merchant shipping attacks in the Red Sea persist. The culprits are a shadowy but lethal Iranian proxy force, the Houthis, who use their control of mountainous parts of the Yemeni coast to launch missile, drone and speedboat attacks on vital shipping lanes connecting the Mediterranean with the Gulf of Aden.
Riding the issue
Oped, Postbag, Published on 01/03/2025
» Re: "Ethics in Thailand's elephant tourism?", (BP, Feb 23).
Make America Great Again heads to Panama
Oped, Ruti Teitel, Published on 04/01/2025
» US President-elect Donald Trump clearly does not intend to pursue a "good neighbour" policy. He has been mocking Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by calling him "governor" while proclaiming that a country of 40 million people should become the 51st US state. His first telephone conversation with Mexico's new president, Claudia Scheinbaum, had to be followed by Ms Scheinbaum politely saying that she had agreed to none of the terms Mr Trump claimed that she had.
Kitchen heats up
Oped, Postbag, Published on 27/09/2024
» Re: "If you are not ready for legal scrutiny", (InQuote, Sept 26).
Junta has it wrong
Oped, Postbag, Published on 07/03/2024
» Re: "Thai MPs hold Myanmar seminar over junta's objection", (BP, March 2) & "Myanmar now an 'endless nightmare'", (BP, March 3).
Juggling funds
Oped, Postbag, Published on 02/03/2024
» Re: "EC asked to probe minister's shares", (BP, Feb 26).
Welcome to the really silly season
Oped, Roger Crutchley, Published on 24/12/2023
» It's Christmas Eve and we are well into the Jinger Ben season in Thailand (Jingle Bells to the uninitiated). But in these dodgy times one suspects there might not be too much jingling going on. Nonetheless, considering all the gloomy news of late, a couple of weeks of being a bit daft offers a welcome break. So we might as well make the most of the Jinger Ben jollity, like a lady teller at my bank who was sporting some rather cute rabbit ears.