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Covid-19 presents big challenges for schooling
Oped, Bundit Kertbundit, Published on 16/04/2020
» Covid-19 has been around for just a few months but already it feels like a lifetime. Many adults have now settled into working from home or found new ways to make ends meet in case of layoffs. The fate of most students, however, remains hanging in the balance. School postponement did not help but foment anxieties while queries about how education will look like when classes resume is still anyone's guess.
Thunberg's attitude is beside the point
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 30/09/2019
» Greta Thunberg undoubtedly made a big impact when she delivered her bold speech last week, demanding the world's leaders take urgent action on climate change.
FFP's new battleground: campus
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 09/09/2019
» Finally, the Future Forward Party (FFP) managed to hold a panel discussion at Khon Kaen University yesterday.
Govt critics face speech curbs
News, Editorial, Published on 08/09/2019
» Even though Thailand has bid farewell to the military regime under the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), and now has an elected government, three disturbing developments over the past two days have reminded many of the time when suppression of freedom of speech was rampant under the NCPO. They have also sent a chill down the spine of the government's critics.
Race for capital's hot seat ramps up
News, Chairith Yonpiam, Published on 20/07/2019
» After more than five years of dormancy under the military regime, the country's local administrative bodies will spring back to life, once again, now the country has switched back into democratic mode.
Political hodgepodge
News, Postbag, Published on 08/07/2019
» Re: "The evolving Thai political fault lines", (Opinion, July 5). I must agree with everything Thitinan Pongsudhirak has pointed out. This military-led conservative coalition distrusts open politics and a fair, democratic game of elections, constitutions, and political parties and civil society.
KTB loan scandal a tangled web indeed
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 08/07/2019
» The state-run Krung Thai Bank (KTB) loan scandal -- which was almost resolved four years ago after 26 people except fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra were given heavy jail terms from 12 to 18 years -- is now being resurrected by the opposition Thaksin-linked Pheu Thai Party.
Good people bad laws
Postbag, Published on 07/07/2019
» Re: “Court to rule on PM’s eligibility”, (BP, July 6). While Jade Donavanik, the former adviser to the Constitution Drafting Committee’s comments that “the Constitutional Court ruling will be binding”, ring true, it is important to remember that such a legal precedent is subject to the caveat that applies to all laws: Merely being legal confers neither rightness nor justice.
Work together for a greener capital
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 12/04/2019
» When I learnt of City Hall's plan to grow one million trees in various districts of Bangkok, I could hardly believe my ears. It was hard to believe that the agency, which is known for its love-hate relationship with trees -- could change its attitude, especially if you look at the way city workers abuse trees by leaving them completely bare and without branches.
Good advice, partly taken
News, Editorial, Published on 31/12/2018
» Gen Prem Tinsulanonda was last involved formally in politics just over 30 years ago. Last week, he climbed back into the ring for just a few moments. That was long enough to give good advice, from experience and from the heart, to the current prime minister. Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha has said often that Gen Prem is his mentor. He would be wise, then, to take Gen Prem's advice to heart, because if he ignores it he could be courting danger.