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Time to guard schools
Oped, Editorial, Published on 13/02/2026
» The school shooting in Songkhla on Wednesday is a stark reminder that schools -- which should be the safest of places -- remain vulnerable to gun attacks.
Should the US join China's WWII event?
Oped, Philip J Cunningham, Published on 21/07/2025
» The latest Victory Day parade in Moscow marking the 80th anniversary of Germany's independence defeat in May will be bookended in the upcoming September with a commemorative parade at Tiananmen Square in Beijing marking the defeat of Japan.
Wipe out scammers
Oped, Postbag, Published on 15/02/2025
» Re: "Chinese-led scam gangs leave Payathongzu", and "Police tighten screws on call centre gangs", (BP, Feb 13).
One size doesn’t fit all
Oped, Postbag, Published on 12/04/2023
» Re: "US Summit for Democracy", (Opinion, April 10).
Grim logic
Oped, Postbag, Published on 12/11/2022
» Re: "Financial injustice" and "What a cop out", (PostBag, Nov 11).
Massacre questions
Oped, Postbag, Published on 08/10/2022
» Re: "Former cop kills 37 in massacre", (BP, Oct 7).
Minister of defence in a mixed-up role
Oped, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 21/09/2022
» If I hadn't been keeping a close eye on the political news every day, I would have mistakenly assumed -- from watching last Friday's televised account -- that Prayut Chan-o-cha, who has been suspended from his duties as prime minister by the charter court since Aug 24, has already returned to carry out his duties at Government House.
No safety net for reporters in post-coup Myanmar
Oped, Ko Thet Paing and Johanna Son, Published on 01/04/2021
» 'In media training, we say that journalism is not a crime," recalls Tin Zar Zaw, a journalist with two decades' experience in training. Indeed so, but what do you do when your profession is effectively classified as a crime?
The 'salim' phenomenon in Thai politics
Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 18/12/2020
» Few phenomena explain and underpin Thai politics more than the rise and decline of what is known pejoratively these days as salim, a metaphorical variation of salim, a Thai dessert comprising multi-coloured thin noodles served in coconut milk with crushed ice. Once socially attractive and politically fashionable, salim have gone out of vogue, looked down upon in a new era of anti-establishment protest for pro-democracy reforms under the new reign. What becomes of these pro-military royalist-conservative salim will have much to say about what will happen to Thailand's political future.
PM ruling must end flak
Oped, Editorial, Published on 02/12/2020
» The Constitutional Court's ruling on Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha staying at an army residence beyond his retirement should set a precedent on this rather ambiguous issue.