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Dear DOGE, it's high time to tear down those dams!
News, Tom Zoellner, Published on 12/07/2025
» No big government infrastructure project made an imprint on the landscape and economy of the West more than the US Bureau of Reclamation's 20th century dam-building spree, which peppered 490 dams across the country, created an agricultural civilisation dependent on federal hydrology civil engineering, and brought about a welter of environmental difficulties after drying up dozens of once-healthy rivers.
Slaying the healthcare zombie
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 03/05/2025
» When a photo of a dental unit at Tanao Sri Hospital -- a remote community hospital in Ratchaburi province -- using a frog-hunting head torch in place of a proper dental lamp went viral last month, it highlighted a grim reality: Thailand's public healthcare system is struggling.
Restrains credulity
News, Postbag, Published on 15/05/2022
» Re: "Kid car seats mandatory from Sept 5," (BP, May 9).
The Soliloquy of Harold Callahan
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 11/07/2021
» My thanks to former colleague Alan Dawson for alerting me to a scene from the Clint Eastwood film Sudden Impact which may throw some light on the hot dog and ketchup debate which featured in last week's column.
The choice is yours, and best of luck
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 17/03/2019
» There's an old dictum, "democracy is the right to make the wrong choice", and one suspects there are plenty of wrong choices available out there, but hopefully also a few good ones as we enter the final straight leading to March 24.
Wake up and ‘smell’ the boiling water
News, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 10/01/2019
» Despite the uncertain date of the long-awaited election, political parties have intensified their poll campaigns, offering tempting policies to attract voters. A quick look at the campaign pledges of the competing parties suggests they want to turn Thailand into a welfare state. That would be a tough task.
'Time' for PM to answer the big question
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 26/06/2018
» Give the military regime some credit. At least it has the sense not to ban the Asia edition of Time magazine with Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on the cover.
Officials in soup for farmer scheme abuse
News, Published on 17/05/2018
» Sixteen community leaders and one government official allegedly committed malfeasance in relation to a flood rehabilitation project for farmers, known as the 9101 Project, in Kalasin's Ban Yang Talat district.
Pichai says regime must be desperate
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 24/02/2018
» Pheu Thai Party member and former energy minister Pichai Naripthaphan cried foul on Friday over a police summons requiring him to report to authorities for failing to comply with one of the regime's orders.