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Narrative challenged
Oped, Postbag, Published on 11/12/2025
» Re: "Thailand's delicate stance with Israel", (Opinion, Dec 9). As a Jew living in Thailand for over 20 years, I must admit I was not happy with what I read. Indeed, found a number of statements to be offensive: The second paragraph implies that Israel's response to the terrorist attack on Oct 7, 2023, was "genocide" -- a term coined in 1944 to describe Hitler's campaign to exterminate all European Jews, and defined as "the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group".
Court backs fairness
Oped, Editorial, Published on 10/09/2025
» The focus of the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions ruling on the "14th-floor saga" should not be seen as merely marking Thaksin Shinawatra's final fall from grace.
No Thatcher, is she
Oped, Postbag, Published on 28/07/2025
» Re: "Wartime requires a prime minister with full authority, (InQuote, July 25).
14th floor back again
Oped, Editorial, Published on 02/06/2025
» The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) deserves a praise for launching a probe into another case of a wealthy recipient of privileged treatment who spent a month in a special patient room on the 14th floor of Police General Hospital (PGH).
Africa's example to end malaria
Oped, Jean Kaseya, Published on 26/05/2025
» Despite being preventable and curable, malaria has continued to claim African lives. In 2023, the continent accounted for about 95% of the 597,000 deaths from malaria worldwide, 76% of which were children under the age of five.
Hypertension hides in plain sight
Oped, Jos Vandelaer & Renu Garg, Published on 15/05/2025
» Thailand's economy has surged. Its health care system is admired. Yet a silent killer is quietly stealing lives, straining hospitals, and sapping the nation's future. That killer is hypertension -- and it's hiding in plain sight.
Local-only jobs
Oped, Postbag, Published on 21/02/2025
» Re: "Cops nab Chinese tour guide", (BP, Feb 8).
Better late than never
Oped, Editorial, Published on 20/12/2024
» It is better late than never, they say. As such, the Medical Council's belated decision to launch an in-depth investigation into the professional ethics of doctors who treated former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra at the Department of Corrections' hospital and Police General Hospital deserves some praise.
I never panic, but I'm panicking now
Oped, Lydia Polgreen, Published on 23/11/2024
» For over a month now, my mother has been pestering me about her missing passport. It was in her closet, she said, and suddenly it was gone. It was expired, and renewing would be easier if she had the old one. She had no immediate travel plans, just a vague desire to visit Ethiopia, the country where she was born and raised, at some point in the future.
For trans people, a doctor's visit can be a dilemma
Oped, Natalie Yeh, Published on 22/10/2024
» Nine years ago, when I spotted blood in my ejaculate, I made an appointment to see my urologist. I quickly found myself to be the only woman in the waiting room. A handful of men surrounded me, and I could see the gears turning in their heads, wondering why a person who presented as and looked like a woman was waiting alongside them.