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Phuket airport fiasco
Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/03/2026
» Re: "AoT must justify charge", (Editorial, Feb 23).
The time I really put my foot in it
Oped, Roger Crutchley, Published on 19/10/2025
» A half-hearted spring-cleaning session at home during the week came to a welcome halt when I unearthed a couple of my father's wartime RAF books under a pile of disintegrating paperbacks. The Air Ministry books, published more than 80 years ago, always serve as a reminder of when as a kid I made a faux pas of embarrassing proportions.
Flat fare flaw
Oped, Postbag, Published on 10/07/2025
» Re: "20-baht flat rate fare gets the nod", (BP, July 9).
Stepping up HIV fight
Oped, Editorial, Published on 30/06/2025
» The recent news of Gilead Sciences' groundbreaking new HIV preventative drug, Lenacapavir, offers a beacon of hope in the fight against HIV. With a remarkable 96% efficacy in reducing HIV infection and the convenience of only two injections per year, Lenacapavir holds the potential to be a true game-changer in the global effort to halt the transmission of HIV.
Unite to solve neglected diseases
Oped, Muhammad Radzi Abu Hassan, Published on 29/04/2025
» The successful collaboration between the health ministries of Malaysia and Thailand, industry partners in Egypt and Malaysia, and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) to bring a new hepatitis C antiviral drug -- ravidasvir -- to market in 2022 was an important milestone. For years, a 12-week course of treatment using sofosbuvir cost between $70,000 (2.34 million baht) and $80,000, putting it out of reach for many in the Global South. But ravidasvir -- a safe and effective alternative when combined with sofosbuvir -- costs far less, averaging less than $500 per course.
Covid's lessons have now all been forgotten
Oped, Antara Haldar, Published on 03/01/2025
» In December 2019, as the world was looking ahead to a new year, a novel virus was quietly spreading in China. Soon, the Covid-19 pandemic would bring the world to a grinding halt, forcing billions of people into unprecedented lockdowns and shuttering economies worldwide. Five years on, we are still grappling with the effects of this "grey rhino": a high-probability risk that was nonetheless neglected or ignored.
Is the 'middle-income trap' real?
Oped, Keun Lee, Published on 31/12/2024
» The term "middle-income trap" refers to the tendency of fast-growing developing economies to lose momentum well before they achieve high-income status. First introduced by World Bank economist Indermit Gill and the Brookings Institution's Homi Kharas in 2007, the concept has since become the subject of intense debate among economists.
Nobody really wants to be a Nazi, but....
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 27/12/2024
» 'Alternativ fur Deutschland" (AfD) means "The Alternative for Germany", and the alternative on offer is fascism. Not actual Naziism, but the AfD uses fascist rhetoric and tactics to attract German voters. It has also attracted some improbable foreign admirers.
No-show Prawit
Oped, Postbag, Published on 05/10/2024
» Re: "Call to probe Prawit absences", (BP, Sept 26).
From tears to action
Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/10/2024
» Re: "20 kids, 3 teachers perish in bus blaze", (BP, Oct 2).