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Many faces of Olympic triumph
News, Howard Chua-Eoan, Published on 15/08/2024
» I was a messy Olympics fan. During the Games in Paris, I rooted for several national delegations. Because I was born in the Philippines, I cheered for the Filipinos. I'm ethnic Chinese, so I was thrilled by the achievements of China, Hong Kong and, uhm, Chinese Taipei. I'm an American citizen, so I'm happy when Team USA is No 1 (or 2 or 3). I live in London, so whenever the UK medalled, I experienced frissons of delight.
Climate change is killing our summer
News, Niall Ferguson, Published on 31/07/2023
» Most of us have an idea of summer in our heads. It generally involves beaches. Americans head to their coasts -- avoiding only fog-shrouded San Francisco -- and Europeans to the Mediterranean or Aegean. We all strip down to near nakedness and sit around in the sun, occasionally frolicking in the ocean waves. We aim to return home tanned and toned. If you come from another planet and don't know what I am talking about, watch the Barbie trailer.
Foreigners arrested over glove, face mask scams
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 01/10/2020
» Foreigners have been arrested for involvement in multi-million-baht rubber glove scam and face mask fraud.
Eroding freedoms
News, Postbag, Published on 25/10/2019
» In the last five years there appears to have been an insidious creep towards a police state.
Enforcement first
News, Postbag, Published on 03/08/2019
» Re: "Need for speed will not help solve gridlock", (Opinion, Aug 2).
Body of missing Filipino found
News, Achadthaya Chuenniran, Published on 20/07/2019
» PHUKET: A body believed to be of one of two missing Filipinos was found on Freedom Beach yesterday.
Demystifying the road to clean air
News, Noah Kittner & Sopitsuda Tongsopit, Published on 18/04/2019
» Bangkok has in recent months experienced dangerous levels of air pollution.
China could outrun US next year ... or never
News, David Fickling, Published on 11/03/2019
» Remember when Japan was going to become the world's biggest economy?
Profiting from animal cruelty
News, Postbag, Published on 16/12/2018
» Re: "Viral elephant photo spurs zoo probe", (BP, Dec 13). It is a total disgrace to the heartless operator of this "zoo" as well as all the visitors. None of them have ever expressed any empathy or disgust about the horrible exploitation of these poor creatures. After all, isn't it the symbol and pride of the national flag since 1820?
Give renewable energy a chance
News, Sopitsuda Tongsopit, Published on 30/03/2018
» The Minister of Energy announced this week the government will stop purchasing electricity from renewable power projects for the next five years. The reasoning is that such projects have caused retail electricity tariffs to jump by 20-25 satangs per unit, and that the electricity system has enough installed capacity for now.