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Call time on booze rules
News, Editorial, Published on 19/03/2022
» Reports that K-pop superstar Lisa Manoban has become a brand ambassador for a whisky-maker have caused something of a frenzy here in her home country.
No erasing history
Oped, Postbag, Published on 25/06/2020
» The whole world is gripped in an emotional, over-reactive insanity -- the belief that if you erase the past, you will insure a better present, and perhaps a future.
Browbeating bullies
Life, Patcharawalai Sanyanusin, Published on 28/10/2019
» I'm not a fan of any boy bands or girl groups from South Korea but I was shocked by the news of the death of Sulli that made big headlines in Thailand two weeks ago. I didn't know much about her before but the speculation that her sudden death was suicide and that cyberbullying may have been a contributing factor saddened me and made me curious to know what happened to her life.
Thai idols fall in line with orthodoxy
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 01/09/2018
» Poor coup-makers, no one wants to see them on TV. At 6pm sharp when the theme song begins, there's a rush of hands to the remote control. Not that you can escape them. The true mark of dictatorship is audiovisual dictatorship: They beam their images on every TV and radio channel, monopolising your sensory reception, like a sci-fi movie, or like a spoiled child demanding your full attention. At 6pm every day for the past four years, the hands clutching the remote have reached for the only possible button. Off.
You can't beat a well-written excuse
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 18/03/2018
» Following last week's item concerning "wobbly spelling", I would like to thank an Australian reader for sharing his experiences when he was the sick leave clerk at a large railway workshop. He received all sorts of weird and wonderful spellings of illnesses from employees.
Checkpoints to disaster
News, Editorial, Published on 03/02/2018
» When traffic police are at work, road users should feel safe and secure. But in some cases, the opposite occurs.