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Recycling SOS
Oped, Postbag, Published on 03/12/2024
» Re: "Fees to encourage sorting of rubbish", (BP, Nov 27).
Consider nature
Oped, Postbag, Published on 23/11/2024
» Re: "1 more dead dugong found", (BP, Nov 19).
Loy Krathong challenges
Oped, Editorial, Published on 09/11/2023
» The Srettha Thavisin government, together with the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) and local administration agencies, are hoping the forthcoming Loy Krathong festival will help stimulate the economy ahead of the New Year.
No to navy salvage
Oped, Postbag, Published on 01/04/2023
» Re: "Vessel yet to be salvaged", (BP, March 30).
A flawed tax policy
Oped, Postbag, Published on 01/01/2023
» Re: "Land tax loophole endangers our environment," (Opinion, Dec 29).
Land tax loophole endangers our environment
Oped, Kitichate Sridith, Published on 29/12/2022
» The public is little aware of the problem, but a new land tax is Thailand's most environmentally destructive policy in the 21st century so far. Taxing land and buildings is a standard policy around the world, and it makes good economic sense. That's why parliament in 2019 passed the law in question -- the Land and Building Tax Act, which went into effect in 2020, imposing annual tax rates ranging from 0.01% to 1.2% or more on the value of the land.
Rivers need urgent care
Oped, Editorial, Published on 08/11/2022
» Today, Thailand celebrates Loy Krathong, a festival held to honour the mythical goddess Phra Mae Kongkha -- the personification of the kingdom's rivers.
Appraising the PM
Oped, Postbag, Published on 30/08/2022
» Re: "PM pressured over defence role", (BP, Aug 26).
Profiting on faith
Oped, Postbag, Published on 27/08/2022
» Re: “Keeping the faith”, (Business, Aug 22). Absent any supporting statistics, let us take it on faith as reported that “Large numbers of Thais are turning to superstition to help make sense of an increasingly fraught and unstable world”. But is that really an excuse for business to cash in by pandering to wild claims of dubious merit?
Taxing for nature
Oped, Postbag, Published on 11/08/2022
» Re: "BMA to levy land taxes in full," (BP, Aug 8).