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Short-term thinking
Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/01/2024
» Re: "Govt vows cut in energy prices", (BP, Jan 2). Instead of temporarily cutting energy prices, PM Srettha should heed Lao Tzu's wise words: "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime." For example, Energy Minister Pirapan Salirathavibhaga is mulling subsidising oil for farmers. But when the handout ends, farmers will revert to their old ways.
Beijing-backed info?
Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/11/2023
» Re: "Journalists tour 'once violent' Xinjiang", (BP, Nov 2).
Road death lottery
Oped, Postbag, Published on 24/01/2023
» Re: "11 burned to death in Korat van crash," (Online, Jan 22).
Sri Lanka: A bad 'Band of Brothers'
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 16/07/2022
» 'How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked (in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises). "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." Sri Lanka is much the same.
Get priorities right
Oped, Postbag, Published on 01/10/2021
» Re: "Keep elderly payment as is", (Editorial, Sept 29).
Wilful blindness
Oped, Postbag, Published on 30/07/2021
» Re: "New tactics to help migrant workers," (Opinion, July 28).
Keeping art alive
Oped, Postbag, Published on 11/06/2021
» Re: "Gatekeepers of history," (Life, June 7).
Iran: Yet another nuclear bungle?
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/02/2021
» The self-esteem of two-year-olds and nation states is too fragile for them to admit they were wrong, which makes it hard for them to move on from blunders. That's why the toys don't get picked up and the broken treaties don't get fixed, and why there may be a tantrum (in the case of two-year-olds) or a nuclear war (in the case of the United States and Iran).
Axe sure to fall
Oped, Postbag, Published on 18/11/2020
» Re: "Chuan Leekpai wants everyone to let parliament do its job", (BP, Nov 17).
Nutters on loose?
Oped, Postbag, Published on 12/11/2020
» Re: "Using force is no way to defend the monarchy", (Opinion, Nov 11).