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Who pays the price?
Oped, Postbag, Published on 18/05/2024
» Re: "Clean air comes before animal feed", (Editorial, May 12).
Target for cuts
Oped, Postbag, Published on 09/03/2024
» Re: "Agencies ordered to cut waste", (BP, March 8).
The 'satanic mills' of Bezos and Amazon
Oped, Antara Haldar, Published on 11/10/2022
» With Britain suffering through its worst cost-of-living crisis in decades -- owing to high inflation and soaring energy prices -- hundreds of workers at an Amazon warehouse in Coventry since last month demanded a wage hike. If the demand is not met, they say they will go on strike in November, just ahead of Black Friday and the holiday shopping season. As with other recent labour actions by US rail workers and British Royal Mail employees, the Amazon workers' move has kicked off a debate about who is to blame for the threatened disruption: the elves in the workshop or Father Christmas?
Favourite phrase
Oped, Postbag, Published on 26/08/2022
» Re: "Lop-sided justice", (PostBag, Aug 23).
Lessons from the Mountain B fire
Oped, Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai, Published on 24/08/2022
» Fire breaks out when heat, fuel, and oxygen meet. Without intervention, a fire will only come to an end under two conditions: when the fuel has run out, or when the oxygen supply is exhausted. In an enclosed space, when a fire can deplete most oxygen, the flames will die down while the fuel continues to burn in a smouldering state under pyrolysis. Pyrolysis does not require oxygen, so it can take place without fire at or above 500C and turn organic compounds into charcoal, tar, or non-condensable gases. These gases have extremely high thermal values ready to burst into fireballs as soon as fresh oxygen re-emerges from any new opening. This is called "backdraft", and is what happened in the Mountain B Pub fire.
Dubious contrast
Oped, Postbag, Published on 23/08/2022
» Re: "China mate", (PostBag, Aug 13). I think ML Saksiri Kridakorn has a biased point of view on world affairs.
Moral conundrum
Oped, Postbag, Published on 15/01/2022
» Re: "Bill on media council gets cabinet nod," (BP, Jan 13). When we read in "Bill on media council gets cabinet nod" that "the exercise of media freedoms must not infringe on social mores", all who value good public morals will be deeply concerned. This must be so since being a social mores never has and cannot of itself guarantee that any belief, custom, or attitude is morally good.
Take on the junta
Oped, Postbag, Published on 11/12/2021
» Re: "Junta court hands Suu Kyi 4 years for incitement," (BP, Dec 7).
Renewables are the future
Oped, Editorial, Published on 28/05/2021
» A Dutch court on Wednesday ordered oil giant Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) to slash its greenhouse gas emissions in a landmark victory with good implications for energy production and consumption worldwide.
A letter from India, amid virus disaster
Oped, Amandeep Sandhu, Published on 19/05/2021
» Every morning, I wake up in my home in a middle-class locality in Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India, and heave a sigh of relief. I do not have temperature; my oximeter readings are normal.