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People want change
Oped, Postbag, Published on 09/09/2025
» Re: "Most Thais want parliament dissolved immediately, charter change: poll", (BP, Sept 7).
Respectful intention?
Oped, Postbag, Published on 27/06/2025
» Re: "Clip scandal grows by day", (Editorial, June 23). The Thai government is hanging by a thread after a leaked call shredded the credibility of 38-year-old Paetongtarn Shinawatra. The respectful term "uncle" is not inappropriate for the elder Hun Sen, the 72-year-old, longest-serving former PM and father of the current leader of Cambodia.
Theatre of white refugees from South Africa
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 16/05/2025
» As my flight landed in South Africa on Sunday, I looked in vain for the plane that was due to take off with the first 49 white, Afrikaans-speaking "refugees" of the many thousands who are supposedly going to find safety from racist persecution in Donald Trump's United States.
Trump: Neither unique nor irreplaceable
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 16/07/2024
» Almost everybody who feels obliged to comment about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump is currently insisting that "violence has no place in American politics", but of course it has. Four US presidents have been assassinated while in office, and three others (now including Mr Trump) have been injured in assassination attempts.
Political tsunami sweeps Southern Hemisphere
Oped, John J. Metzler, Published on 26/10/2023
» 'It's the last bus stop in the world," a former New Zealand prime minister once told me while he was visiting New York. Indeed a remote South Pacific island nation of merely 5 million, known for the Kiwi, its All Blacks Rugby team, and some pretty good wines, was sadly hobbled by a woke progressive government who turned the once idyllic place into a land beset by inflation, unaffordable housing and rampant crime and gangs.
Which rules count?
Oped, Postbag, Published on 22/07/2023
» Re: "Pita leaves chamber after court suspension ruling", (BP, July 20 ).
Diluting language
Oped, Postbag, Published on 02/05/2023
» Re: "Language travails", (PostBag, April 30), and "Spelling it out", (PostBag, May 1).
Culprits were local
Oped, Postbag, Published on 11/04/2023
» Re: "Forest suffers 'worst wildfire in 20 years'," (BP, April 7).
Heroic effort
Oped, Postbag, Published on 09/02/2023
» Re: "Rescuers save trapped toddler from deep well," (BP, Feb 8).
Road death lottery
Oped, Postbag, Published on 24/01/2023
» Re: "11 burned to death in Korat van crash," (Online, Jan 22).