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Over in Canada, PM Trudeau bites the dust
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 09/01/2025
» Donald Trump excels in every field, including surrealism. Leonard Cohen sang "First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin!", but it's completely outclassed by Mr Trump's "First we take Greenland, then we take Canada!" And he's going to take the Panama Canal too!
If Prigozhin's gone, long live Putin – and Wagner?
News, Andreas Kluth, Published on 26/08/2023
» Yevgeny Prigozhin might have retired in peace some day. Or he could have been found writhing in the throes of Novichok, a nerve agent favoured by Russia's spy agencies. He might also have fallen out of a window, crashed in his car, or slipped in his bathroom -- like so many Russians lately, and like any of us potentially.
Jail holiday for Sira?
News, Published on 05/04/2021
» Re: "Protest leaders held 'in 5-star' luxury", (BP, April 1).
Vladimir Putin, Navalny and Thomas à Becket
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/08/2020
» In 20 years of writing about Russia's President Vladimir Putin -- he was completely obscure before 1999 -- I have never before had reason to mention him and Saint Thomas à Becket in the same sentence. Finally, however, the time has come.
Corruption still flourishes
News, Postbag, Published on 08/09/2019
» The Supreme Court added another six years to the jail sentence of former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom, bringing the total to 48 years for his involvement in corrupt rice trading deals (BP, Sept 7).
Foolish drug war
News, Postbag, Published on 10/08/2019
» Re: "Weed use a 'medical minefield'", (BP, Aug 8). If countries like Canada and the US are not intimidated by threats from the wrong-headed International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) that is stuck in the hysteria-driven mistakes of the ignorant past and vicious drug war heyday, why should Thailand be terrified of its threats to punish good citizens who need other medicines? The whole idea of punishing another group for the perceived crimes of others is morally indefensible, however popular it might be in the sanctions imposed by US presidents intent on forcing others to bow to their populist will.
Troubled justice?
News, Postbag, Published on 04/08/2019
» Re: "Thainess not all bad", (PostBag, July 30). I think everyone agrees that societies of other countries include families (and situations) similar to the one he refers to.
Judicial 'puzzlement'
News, Postbag, Published on 10/05/2019
» "It's a puzzlement…" as Yul Brynner said in the musical production of The King and I. The appeal court increased the prison term for the killer Benz driver, but justice has not run its course in a similar case, involving a rich company owner's Benz that slammed into a little compact car, killing the driver who was a policeman and his wife, and seriously injuring their daughter. Indeed, it is not a "puzzlement" at all.
Melodramatic rants
News, Postbag, Published on 08/05/2019
» Vint Chavala makes one of his customary melodramatic rants in "Poisonous billionaires", (PostBag, May 4), this time against "many billionaires", one presumably being Mr Thanathorn. However, he does not name any others apart from Thaksin Shinawatra, nor does he give us the faintest clue why Mr Thanathorn personally should be regarded as "poisonous".
Setting the record straight
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 22/04/2019
» The Election Commission has come under fire for its handling of the March 24 polls, which has prompted its chairman Ittiporn Boonpracong to set the record straight. In an exclusive interview, the former diplomat admits to flaws in the organisation of the polls, and vows to come up with a quick but comprehensive solution to the issues.