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Global jitters
Oped, Postbag, Published on 08/02/2025
» Re: "Trade war will test govt", (Editorial, Feb 3).
The push African women need to escape poverty
Oped, Rudo Kayombo, Published on 12/03/2024
» What do poverty, climate change, and conflict have in common? They are among the biggest challenges confronting Africa, and they all disproportionately affect women living in poverty or on the margins of society.
Unnecessary directive
Oped, Postbag, Published on 15/04/2023
» Re: "Army, cops pressed to nab hacker", & "AWOL hacker sparks outcry", (BP, April 11& 12).
The poor get poorer
Oped, Postbag, Published on 22/01/2023
» Re: "Rivals lay claim to welfare," (BP, Jan 19).
Blighted regime
Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/01/2022
» Re: "Card holders can now use any hospital", (BP, Jan 3). Minister Anutin Charnvirakul's characterisation of his ministry's new policy of allowing cardholders to access any hospital as a "New Year's gift" to cardholders is illustrative of one of Thai society's most toxically dysfunctional structural elements: namely the largely unchallenged acceptance in Thailand that a major role of government in a democratic polity should be to dole out largesse to its citizen-supplicants.
Monks, be good
Oped, Postbag, Published on 23/10/2021
» Re: "Don't limit monks," (PostBag, Oct 16) and "More Meditating, Less Talking Please", (PostBag, Oct 18).