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Kosovo to launch visa free scheme
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 12/11/2023
» Kosovo and Thailand are planning to adopt a visa exemption scheme for the people of both countries to celebrate 10 years of bilateral relations.
Hear the people sing
News, Postbag, Published on 08/05/2023
» Re: "No questions asked", (PostBag, May 7) & "Neighbours, Asean states meet in Delhi over crisis", (BP, April 27).
La paix est féminine. Peace is feminine
News, Helene Budliger Artieda & Sarah Taylor & Sibille de Cartier & Ulpiana Lama, Published on 19/03/2022
» March is the month of Francophonie. We also just celebrated International Women's Day. This year, these two celebrations are related by one thread -- the call for Peace. La Paix, the French word for Peace, is feminine. This month, we pay tribute to the tremendous contribution of women towards global peace. We also renew our commitment to peace and cooperation.
Durian for the heart in far South
News, Supapohn Kanwerayotin, Published on 14/07/2020
» 'From Bannang Sata Yala," along with PromptPay details for contactless payment, read the sign at the back of a pickup truck parked across the street from the mosque next to Thong Lor Metropolitan Police Station. This is a find on my neighbourhood roaming day. Because at this time of year I would usually have set myself up in Pattani as a launchpad for the annual durian eating season in three southern border provinces. In my pre-corona blueprint, the imagined highlight would be an-all durian day along multiple stalls lining the roadside of Ton Sai, a spot in Narathiwat where a work trip in July 2019 placed me in the divine durian abode. A large fruit picked, weighed and cut open by a lady vendor produced the prettiest plump golden mounds -- the most delicious durian I have ever wrapped my taste buds around. Amid oohs and aahs from Thai colleagues who had actually just finished another fruit before our arrival, plus the expression on my face while relishing that mouthful, must have boosted the courage in a foreign expert I was interpreting for to brave an encounter. Still, that pile of terrifying spiky fruit apparently overwhelmed his other colleagues who opted out. A globetrotting development expert, he nodded his approval as he finished his piece with no trace of aversion.
Blind justice
News, Postbag, Published on 01/12/2019
» The Forestry Department just announced that Palang Pracharath MP Pareena Kraikupt's poultry farm does, indeed, intrude on protected forest and government land plots reserved for landless farmers -- but when the coalition MP protested innocence, the department promptly said that it would remeasure the plots.
Fake news promises
News, Postbag, Published on 29/06/2019
» Re: "Who decides on fake news?", (Editorial, June 28).
'Thai-style' human rights raises questions
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 14/01/2019
» The detention of an 18-year-old Saudi runaway and a Bahraini footballer are just recent examples of the Thai-style approach to international human rights issues that usually puts concerns over Thailand's bilateral ties with other nations before the rights and safety of individuals.
Licence misguidance
News, Postbag, Published on 24/08/2018
» Re: "Motorists slam police road safety crackdown", (BP, Aug 23).