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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.
Mystery shrouds death of hostess
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 26/02/2021
» Police are to question a man who hired a young woman to serve drinks and entertain guests at his Bangkok home earlier this week, and who died the following day from respiratory and blood system failure.
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.
Health scheme buoyed by B5.1bn budget deal
News, Post Reporters, Published on 07/03/2018
» The cabinet approved a budget of 5.1 billion baht yesterday for the universal health coverage scheme to plug a funding shortfall for inpatient care and staffing in rural areas.
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.