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Immigration Bureau faces new scrutiny
Oped, Editorial, Published on 23/09/2025
» The Police Immigration Bureau (IB) is fuming over a Reuters documentary-style interactive graphic report based on interviews with nine people who had allegedly been trafficked to scam centres in Myanmar between 2022 and 2025.
Road to ruin
Oped, Postbag, Published on 14/02/2025
» Re: "Seabed test drilling starts", (BP, Feb 11).
Save big trees
Oped, Postbag, Published on 16/12/2023
» Our Metropolitan Waterworks Authority (MWA) cut down several big trees along Rim Khlong Prapa Road on Monday.
In good faith
Oped, Postbag, Published on 24/09/2022
» Re: "Support for nuns long overdue", (Editorial, Sept 18).
No living with virus
Oped, Postbag, Published on 20/01/2022
» Re: "Quarantine quandary", (Editorial, Jan 19) and Re: "Anutin backs restoring Test & Go as Omicron fears ease", (BP, Jan 18).
Once upon a time it was smooth as silk
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 27/10/2019
» Judging from what a leading executive of Thai Airways International (THAI) said last week, the national airline is in a spot of bother and needs to turn things around quickly. Quite what the solution might be is unclear, although one suspects a "miracle" would come in quite handy. It is common knowledge that things have not been "smooth as silk" for many years.
No excuse for failure
News, Postbag, Published on 23/10/2019
» The trending fiscal policies and strategies that reduce spending on education are horrific if the country desires to transition into a functioning society within the digital age and the 21st century. The increase in military spending without a corresponding investment in education demonstrates perfectly what a lack of intelligence creates.
Ethnic inequality 'extreme', says study
News, John Draper & Peerasit Kamnuansilpa, Published on 21/02/2019
» In the spirit of Sustainable Development Goal 10, which seeks to reduce inequality, Thailand's first major national study on differences in development by ethnicity was recently published.
Thailand's education stands at a crossroads
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 29/09/2018
» You may have heard or read about a recent Facebook post by the aunt of a first grader, who complained that the child's teacher marked the answer to a homework math question as wrong when it ought to be right.
Ban toxic glyphosate
News, Postbag, Published on 26/05/2018
» According to a May 24 report, the Hazardous Substance Committee, in reference to a ban on three toxic pesticides, said "there were insufficient studies confirming they were health hazards", and thus have allowed their continued use. One of the three is glyphosate, known as "Roundup".