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Uyghur row triggers bust-up
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 26/03/2025
» Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai has called opposition MP Kannavee Suebsaeng "a big liar" following the MP's criticism of the government's deportation of the Uyghurs to China.
Cannabis sensibility
News, Published on 21/11/2022
» Re: "Champions of pot plot pro-cannabis bill rally," (BP, Nov 19).
Teen takes the cake, canalside shock, road rage in lights
News, Mae Moo, Published on 02/01/2022
» That old funeral scam
Thief out for a spin, online loan threats, tombstone drinks
News, Mae Moo, Published on 16/05/2021
» Smile, you're on CCTV
No more suffering
News, Published on 26/04/2021
» Asean had been lied to after the bloody 1988 people's uprising, the 1990 election where the National League for Democracy (NLD) won, and then this coup.
Lessons from the American insurrection
News, By Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 12/01/2021
» The carnage on Capitol Hill last Wednesday provides numerous valuable lessons for both mature and emerging democracies around the world. The US perceives itself to be a beacon of global democracy worthy of emulation. Now that a mob of pro-Trump loyalists have marched on and temporarily seized the Capitol, the American democracy that we all know can never be the same again. The country that wants to lead by example, as President-elect Joe Biden often says, has now become its own worst enemy by setting such a bad one.
Condemn all sexual abuse
News, Editorial, Published on 24/11/2020
» A recent protest by a young woman in student uniform, who held up a sign which read "I am a victim of sexual harassment" and "school is not a safe place for students", triggered a public frenzy, but in different ways.
Spivs, wide boys and dodgy kipper ties
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 22/11/2020
» Every now and again a word pops up which I have not heard for ages. That was the case recently with an email from a London-born friend who complained about "spivs" who had contributed to ruining his local football club's finances.
Time running out on Tokyo Olympics
News, Philip J Cunningham, Published on 19/02/2020
» Japan needs to rethink the Olympics. The most pressing reason to postpone or cancel the 2020 Tokyo summer games, which are due to start in late July, is a raging public health crisis of unknown dimensions.
Zero-baht notes?
News, Postbag, Published on 27/01/2020
» I doubt there can be anyone in Thailand who does not have personal experience of the endemic corruption at all levels of government and officialdom, whether it be 200 baht paid to a policeman for speeding or some other imagined driving offence, to a thousand baht or more demanded by a bureaucrat to expedite a simple government transaction.