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Digital dystopia
Oped, Postbag, Published on 26/08/2025
» Re: "Thai govt issues new rules for SIM cards", (BP, Aug 21).
Scams grow, as laws lag
Oped, Editorial, Published on 30/10/2025
» Last week, police in Chiang Rai province arrested a 35-year-old Chinese national as he went from one ATM to a multitude of others to withdraw cash. A subsequent search of his rented room showed he had in his possession 2,057 ATM cards, 537,900 baht in cash, 35 bank books, and 39 SIM cards. He was initially charged with illegally possessing ATM cards belonging to others in a manner that may cause damage, a charge carrying a maximum sentence of five years' imprisonment.
Village chief's fruitless fight for justice
Oped, Penchom Saetang & Punyathorn Jeungsmarn, Published on 15/12/2021
» December is an important month for human rights and environmental protection movements.
AI wake-up call
Oped, Postbag, Published on 29/08/2025
» Re: "Recruiters tout opportunities AI offers", (Business, Aug 25) & "Labour and the dynamics of change", (Opinion, July 27).
In Mekong region, drug trade thrives
Oped, Johanna Son, Published on 15/07/2021
» An example of a resilient business model in hard times? Indeed, except that this describes how the synthetic drug industry has been expanding in East and Southeast Asia, home to the Mekong region which is the manufacturing and trafficking hub that supplies illicit drugs that reach not just the wider Asia but the globe.
Call time on call scams
Oped, Editorial, Published on 03/03/2022
» The handling of the so-called "call-centre" scam by the authorities has been a disappointment.
Is Israel spared?
Oped, Postbag, Published on 14/07/2025
» Re: "Trump threatens 35% tariff on Canada", (World, June 12).
Military's shame
News, Postbag, Published on 23/04/2020
» Re: "Seven soldiers on Monday confessed to having tortured two men to force them to admit to drug trafficking. One of the two men died", (BP, April 21). The military’s role is to be a fence, protecting us from external aggressors. Soldiers have no expertise in fighting domestic crime, whether it be drug trafficking or, say, riots or political protests - that what we have police for.
Strategy for deep South still a sham
Oped, Asmadee Bueheng, Published on 18/11/2022
» It amazes me how, after nearly two decades of fighting that has claimed more than 7,000 lives in this historically contested region where armed Patani Malay combatants are pitted against Thai government security forces, officials still lack the basic understanding of a counter-insurgency.
NBTC faces huge hurdles
Oped, Editorial, Published on 08/02/2025
» The case of Pirongrong Ramasoota, a commissioner of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) who faces a two-year jail term following a legal dispute with True Digital Group, is snowballing into what is being called the "Pirongrong Effect".