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Tariff talks are unlikely to go as planned
Oped, Chartchai Parasuk, Published on 24/07/2025
» It is only a week away from the Aug 1 deadline when the 36% reciprocal tariff levied on Thai exports to the US will take effect.
Corrupt monks have lost their way
Oped, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 14/07/2025
» Just as Thailand was about to celebrate Asalha Bucha Day and the start of Buddhist Lent, the nation was gripped by the biggest sex scandal ever to rock its clergy. How irony.
Time to regroup?
Oped, Postbag, Published on 17/09/2024
» Re: "Asean's united front amid global shifts", (Opinion, July 30).
Cost of taxation
Oped, Postbag, Published on 26/07/2024
» Re: "Guard against foreign crime", (BP, July 23). The appearance of a billboard advertising citizenship for investment programmes should not be met with shock by the Thai government.
20 years of errors can't be fixed easily
Oped, Chartchai Parasuk, Published on 30/05/2024
» I have a strong feeling that piecemeal measures are what the economy is going to get from the government to combat Thailand's long-standing economic problems.
Welfare guns need axing
Oped, Editorial, Published on 18/11/2023
» The Interior Ministry's new gun control policy may induce a sense of relief among the public -- and at least the government is doing something to rein in the increasingly ominous spate of gun violence.
Pheu Thai stuck in digital wallet trap
Oped, Chairith Yonpiam, Published on 21/10/2023
» The Pheu Thai Party is facing a Catch-22 situation over its controversial digital wallet scheme, which has drawn heavy criticism.
Pita and the 'Myth of Sisyphus'
Oped, Kong Rithdee, Published on 15/07/2023
» 'The Gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight."
To reconstruct Turkey, rebuild its democracy
Oped, Daron Acemoglu & Cihat Tokgöz, Published on 04/04/2023
» The devastating earthquakes that killed more than 50,000 people in Turkey (and at least 7,000 in northern Syria) in February have exposed deep-rooted problems in the run-up to potentially epochal presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14. Turkey, it is now clear, needs more than a change of government; it needs a fundamental transformation of its politics and economy. That means confronting the hugely powerful construction lobby and attempting to rebuild the country's flailing democracy.