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Haze looms, action lags
Oped, Editorial, Published on 29/01/2025
» The PM2.5 situation in Bangkok has worsened over the past week, and needless to say, the city's residents have become increasingly exasperated.
Net the big crooks
Oped, Postbag, Published on 08/01/2025
» Re: "Cop course for Chinese investigated", (BP, Jan 4).
BMA battles truck smog
Oped, Editorial, Published on 31/10/2024
» Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt deserves praise for launching the Bangkok Low Emission Scheme (BLMS) -- a pilot programme to prevent large trucks from entering certain parts of the inner city during the air pollution season.
Lorry graft setback
Oped, Editorial, Published on 02/07/2024
» The ugly conflict between national police chief Pol Gen Torsak Sukvimol and his deputy Surachate Hakparn has diverted public attention from serious corruption and other problems at the Royal Thai Police.
Thai police graft highlights bigger issues
Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 26/04/2024
» There is no bigger news on the current Thai political scene than corruption among the top echelons of the police force. At issue is the tussle between Thailand's two senior-most cops, Pol Gen Surachate Hakparn and Pol Gen Torsak Sukvimol, both accusing each other of being on the take. Their high-stakes feud would normally be a run-of-the-mill story for the infamously shady Thai police but this case has become a mirror and microcosm of structural graft that is corroding the highest corridors of politics, economy, and society.
Fuelling opposition
Oped, Postbag, Published on 26/03/2024
» Re: "Pita 'most favoured' to be next PM: poll", (BP, March 25).
Make safety a priority
Oped, Editorial, Published on 26/12/2023
» The past weekend saw the festive spirit return to Bangkok, although the collective mood might have been merrier had there not been reports of two accidents at city train construction sites.
Weighing in on trucks
Oped, Editorial, Published on 17/11/2023
» The outcome of the Royal Thai Police's probe into an overloaded lorry that caused a roadworks cover to collapse on Sukhumvit Road last week is simply a letdown. Instead of helping combat bribery in the transport sector, the probe has only raised more doubts over the integrity of the police.
More graft than ever
Oped, Editorial, Published on 02/06/2023
» A high-profile scandal involving kickback payments for overloaded lorries is just the tip of the corruption iceberg.
Trucks, haze and action
Oped, Editorial, Published on 10/03/2023
» The high levels of PM2.5 air pollution seen this month revive the question of what national and local governments could have done but failed to do. Within this, the proposed relocation of Bangkok Port out of the capital city -- part of the national master plan to reduce PM2.5 -- attracted media attention.