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BMA's sewer war begins
Oped, Editorial, Published on 24/06/2025
» Last week, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) closed down 46 food shops. Owners of these food businesses were found to be violating a municipal law, which requires them to install grease interceptors at their dishwashing basin systems.
Perfect storm confronts UN assembly meet
Oped, John J Metzler, Published on 28/09/2024
» Powerful thunderclaps from the Middle East, Ukraine and Sudan rumbled as a dire greeting to the opening UN General Assembly session in New York. Winds from ongoing but unresolved humanitarian crises the world over from Sudan to Syria and Somalia swirled. And a nervous atmosphere of widening conflicts, some still yet to happen, settled over assembled delegates.
Save Thai workers
Oped, Postbag, Published on 21/10/2023
» Re: "PM to ask Riyadh for help", (BP, Oct 17).
The tragic misbehaviour of big business
Oped, Daron Acemoglu, Published on 07/10/2022
» Are successful businesspeople more like heroes or villains? In fictional accounts, one can find plenty of examples of each, from Charles Dickens's miserly Ebenezer Scrooge to Ayn Rand's rugged individualist entrepreneur John Galt. In F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan represents privileged old money, with its ruthlessness and incapacity for empathy, whereas Jay Gatsby is a self-made millionaire with no shortage of sentimentality and idealism.
No more money politics
Oped, Editorial, Published on 26/07/2022
» The censure debate may have ended on Saturday with the government comfortably surviving the censure motion, but the post-debate aftermath has begun.
Is struggling Sri Lanka salvageable?
Oped, Syed Munir Khasru, Published on 08/04/2022
» Last Sunday -- with two notable exceptions -- Sri Lanka's cabinet resigned en masse in protest against the government's handling of the worst economic crisis to hit the island in decades, which has sparked widespread rioting, unrest, and arson attacks on police property.
Public needs antiviral meds
Oped, Editorial, Published on 01/05/2021
» Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Thais have been gripped by fear. For months, these worries -- which have been intensified during the kingdom's third wave of infections -- have been about the government's slow vaccination rollout. Now the public is getting more anxious, following concerns over a possible shortage of favipiravir, an important medicine used to treat Covid-19 patients with moderate to severe symptoms.
Lessons from Pimrypie
Oped, Editorial, Published on 13/01/2021
» Government offices can draw lessons from the Omkoi district office of non-formal and informal education regarding the "drama" of a charity project by popular YouTuber and online retailer Pimrypie.
Meaning of cronyism
Oped, Postbag, Published on 14/04/2018
» Re: "Cronyism 'typical'?", (PostBag, April 13).