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Court backs fairness
Oped, Editorial, Published on 10/09/2025
» The focus of the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions ruling on the "14th-floor saga" should not be seen as merely marking Thaksin Shinawatra's final fall from grace.
Israel chasing an impossible dream in Gaza
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 26/05/2025
» A zombie dream has taken over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, or at least the extreme right part of it, which is the tail that wags the rest. It is the dream that was once called "transfer" and is now known as "relocation". In its broadest form it includes the expulsion of all Arabs from the lands now controlled by Israel.
Rate cut helps the BoT, not the economy
Oped, Chartchai Parasuk, Published on 06/03/2025
» On Feb 26, the Bank of Thailand's (BoT) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) cut its policy interest rate by 0.25%, lowering it to 2.0%.
Crackdown on Scam City
Oped, Editorial, Published on 22/01/2025
» The arrest this weekend of 32 Indonesians for having entered Thailand illegally after fleeing a city on the Thai-Myanmar border that is notorious for operating scams is maddening, to say the least.
Syria receives another chance with Assad gone
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 10/12/2024
» Take a moment, first, to celebrate the fall of a regime of surpassing evil even by the demanding standards of the Middle East. Father and son, the Assad regime oppressed and abused the Syrian people for 53 years, and now it is gone in a week. Even the American-backed puppet regime in Afghanistan did not fall that fast.
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.
Late King's stance
Oped, Postbag, Published on 12/06/2024
» Re: "Pita says court powerless to dissolve MFP", (BP, June 10) & "Move Forward case reveals autocracy", (Opinion, June 7).
Road realities
Oped, Postbag, Published on 23/04/2024
» Re: "Nex Point looks to Asean's growing EV market", (Business, April 20).
A life seeks nuance in free-market gospel
Oped, Jennifer Szalai, Published on 25/11/2023
» In writing her new biography of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, known throughout his long life for his cheerful endorsement of deregulation and free markets, Jennifer Burns certainly had her work cut out for her. Reflecting on how controversial her subject was, she says that one of her goals was “to restore the fullness of Friedman’s thought to his public image”. She depicts Friedman, who died in 2006 at 94, as a victim of a “bipartisan assault”, besieged by radicals on the left and populists on the right who decry the “neoliberalism” that he so ardently promoted. “As he increasingly came to symbolise a political movement,” she writes, “the nuance and complexity of his ideas was lost”.
The conflicts of the new world order
Oped, Brahma Chellaney, Published on 14/11/2023
» The crises, conflicts and wars that are currently raging highlight just how profoundly the geopolitical landscape has changed in recent years, as great-power rivalries have again become central to international relations. With the wars in Gaza and Ukraine exacerbating global divisions, an even more profound geopolitical reconfiguration -- including a shift to a new world order -- may well be in the works.