• OPINION

  The right direction

  News, Postbag, Published on 18/01/2016

  » Re: "Our next leader will have to fix economy" (Opinion, Jan 17).

• OPINION

  Liberalise lease laws

  News, Postbag, Published on 29/01/2016

  » An argument often heard in Thailand is that to extend leases or grant ownership rights to foreigners would betray sensitivity to the history of colonisation in Southeast Asia. But Thailand has not been subject to colonisation and is seldom seen to be overly sensitive to its neighbours' problems or transgressions, unless they directly impact the kingdom.

• OPINION

  Think more carefully

  News, Postbag, Published on 15/02/2016

  » T Hinker ("Abused by the men in orange", Postbag, Feb 14) is accurate in referring to the corrupt commercialism of Thai Buddhism. But when he refers to Buddhism as a "simple philosophy of naive intent" it is he who is being naive.

• OPINION

  Publicity never bad

  News, Postbag, Published on 16/02/2016

  » Thanks for your brave attempt at clarifying what bridge is and is not (Life, Feb 15). One of the unintended consequences of the saga is that the Pattaya bridge club, small by international standards, is now the most famous in the entire world, with several hundred newspaper and TV reports and tens of thousands of comments on blogsites talking about it. The tale has also made Jeremy Watson (the organiser) and myself (the founder, in 1994) the best-known bridge players throughout the five continents even though our standards sadly fall short of the brilliance usually required for notoriety.

• OPINION

  Having it both ways

  News, Postbag, Published on 18/02/2016

  » The Bangkok Post reported on Tuesday that monks demonstrating at Phutthamonthon have made two demands: Firstly, that Buddhism be declared the official state religion in the new constitution, and, secondly, that the prime minister should stop government agencies from interfering in matters relating to the monastic community.

• OPINION

  Divisive Thaksin tactics

  News, Postbag, Published on 23/02/2016

  » Re: "Poll 'charade', says Thaksin", (BP, Feb 22).

• OPINION

  Sanctioned deaths

  News, Postbag, Published on 25/02/2016

  » In your editorial "Officials in a haze", (BP, Feb 23), concerning the smoke haze in northern Thailand that has been increasing since 2007, you pin most of the blame on large agro-companies burning vegetated land to clear it for corn plantations, and the accompanying ill-effects on people's health.

• OPINION

  Same story with Tibet

  News, Postbag, Published on 26/02/2016

  » Re: "China not in the wrong", (PostBag, Feb 25).

• OPINION

  Blessing in disguise?

  News, Postbag, Published on 29/03/2016

  » With the failure of negotiations with the Chinese government, the junta plans to drastically chop the length of the delayed Thai-Sino high-speed train to just a third of the original plan.

• OPINION

  Prayut losing his cool

  News, Postbag, Published on 31/03/2016

  » Re: "PM says he won't take more jibes" (BP, March 29).

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