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Fair probe for 'ATK doctor'
Oped, Editorial, Published on 20/08/2025
» When Dr Supat Hasuwannakit, chair of the Rural Doctor Society, led a mission to help Bangkok combat the deadly Covid-19 pandemic in 2021 by providing ATK test kits, he won plaudits and awards from the government.
Will US military aid to Ukraine tip the scales?
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 24/04/2024
» 'I've said before, you do the right thing and you let the chips fall where they may," said Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives. The chips being the 10 or 20,000 extra Ukrainians who died needlessly during the six months when the Republican Party blocked the sending of any more US military aid to Ukraine.
A life seeks nuance in free-market gospel
Oped, Jennifer Szalai, Published on 25/11/2023
» In writing her new biography of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, known throughout his long life for his cheerful endorsement of deregulation and free markets, Jennifer Burns certainly had her work cut out for her. Reflecting on how controversial her subject was, she says that one of her goals was “to restore the fullness of Friedman’s thought to his public image”. She depicts Friedman, who died in 2006 at 94, as a victim of a “bipartisan assault”, besieged by radicals on the left and populists on the right who decry the “neoliberalism” that he so ardently promoted. “As he increasingly came to symbolise a political movement,” she writes, “the nuance and complexity of his ideas was lost”.
Test kit snags worsen
Oped, Editorial, Published on 20/01/2022
» The threat posed by the highly transmissible Omicron coronavirus variant makes rapid testing more than necessary. Yet the high prices of test kits and shortage of supply have made containing the pandemic that much harder.
Schools need more jabs
Oped, Editorial, Published on 28/10/2021
» The nation's sluggish campaign to vaccinate school-age children has thrown the plan to fully reopen schools into disarray.
New test kit mystery
Oped, Editorial, Published on 08/10/2021
» Antigen test kits (ATK), used in detection of the coronavirus, are now more than just a medical device; they are also the latest strategic tool for reopening business and activities.
Thamanat saga allows peek into the PM's mind
Oped, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 29/09/2021
» Is the game over? The three Big Ps -- Gen Prayut, Gen Prawit and Gen Anupong aka Big Pok -- seem to have secured power as they vowed to be brothers till death do they part while the deposed former deputy agriculture minister Thamanat Prompow appears to have faded away.
Sinovac makes sense
Oped, Postbag, Published on 20/08/2021
» Re: "Why more Sinovac?," (Editorial, Aug 18).
Toxic Apple 'candy'
Oped, Postbag, Published on 18/08/2021
» Re: "Apple defends child protection features over privacy concerns", (Online, Aug 14).
Covid self-test kit woes
Oped, Editorial, Published on 13/08/2021
» The Ministry of Public Health has made the right move with its policy of providing 8.5 million free Covid antigen self-testing kits to the public. The kits offer some hope for efforts to contain the pandemic. They will enable early detection and timely treatment -- keys to reducing serious illness while protecting the healthcare system from collapsing.