Showing 1 - 10 of 3,657
Bangkok gets better
Oped, Postbag, Published on 24/04/2026
» Re: "What's up, governor?", (Editorial, April 23). The editorial presents a cautious view of Chadchart Sittipunt's tenure, but risks overlooking the scale of everyday improvements across the city.
Vaping menace shifting more into childhood
Oped, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 23/04/2026
» The news of primary school children posting themselves vaping on Instagram is a warning sign. Viral images of young students vaping or smoking e-cigarettes have now become strikingly casual and performative, speaking volumes about how far the problem has gone.
Borrowing blindspot
Oped, Postbag, Published on 23/04/2026
» Re: "The question is not borrowing", (InQuote, April 22). Indeed, that is a golden bar of borrowings as expressed simply by our Financial Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Ekniti Nitithanprapas. If no care is taken on how we spend someone's money once in their hands, then disaster can be expected if accountability in due time to bondholders on how they spend it and follow through is not seriously there.
Water crisis still unsolved
Oped, Editorial, Published on 22/04/2026
» Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul's trip to Chiang Mai on Monday only confirms one certainty: his government -- whether Anutin 1.0 or the current 2.0 version -- does not have a coherent policy for water management.
Chokepoints expose fragility of our global order
Oped, Todd G Buchholz, Published on 22/04/2026
» Most schoolchildren learn that the Earth is roughly 40,000km around. They do not learn that the global economy depends on just 160 of those kilometres.
The generational shift in learning needs addressing
News, Mariano Miguel Carrera, Published on 22/04/2026
» Picking mangoes at home recently highlighted the generational shift in learning. My sons, 10 and 13, were not interested in the mangoes. After years of pushing, pleading and prompting, climbing the trees is a problem for them. Interest muted. They occasionally pick mangoes with a rod to eat, but the joy of climbing trees and picking mangoes by hand is not there. Convenience, interest and options make what was once a rite of passage, a joy, a form of exercise, learning, a communion with nature and more, a mundane -- meh.
Border dispute needs steady dialogue
Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 21/04/2026
» Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet's recent comment prioritising bilateral negotiations is welcome news. However, it is not a breakthrough. Rather, it is a return to what should have been the modus operandi from the beginning.
Putting today's news on the map
Roger Crutchley, Published on 19/04/2026
» One of the few positive outcomes of the present Iran conflict is the impact it has had on geographical knowledge of the area amongst people around the globe. Every day millions switch on the television or their phones and the first thing they are likely to be greeted with is a map of the Middle East.
Border hospitals need more help
Editorial, Published on 19/04/2026
» A recent appeal for financial help from Umphang Hospital in Tak province highlights the ordeals faced by hospitals along the Thai-Myanmar border.
Thailand is failing its forests
Vanich Kittichai, Published on 18/04/2026
» I would be the first to admit that I have been quite single-minded on matters of perceived domestic corruption and mismanagement throughout just over a month of writing here at the Bangkok Post.