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Stretching credibility
News, Postbag, Published on 03/01/2018
» I am afraid to say that Burin Kantabutra is stretching credibility a bit by suggesting that honesty and respect for the law are traditional Thai values.
Govt must try harder
News, Postbag, Published on 04/01/2018
» There seems to be a constant stream of new initiatives emanating from the government "dream factory" on how to boost tourism.
Ivory towers won't fall
News, Postbag, Published on 05/01/2018
» Re: "Let's ban ivory here", (PostBag, Jan 3).
No new beginnings
News, Postbag, Published on 06/01/2018
» Re: "A year of living dangerously in Thailand", (Opinion, Jan 5).
Ivory ban can work
News, Postbag, Published on 07/01/2018
» I thank Paul Bromberg ("Ivory towers won't fall", PostBag, Jan 5) and 449900 ("Enforce ivory ban", PostBag, Jan 4) for underscoring my point about the need for effective enforcement of bans on ivory as a means toward reducing poaching of elephants.
Out with the old
News, Postbag, Published on 12/01/2018
» The media report of a group of former MPs from the Northeast paying a visit to three of their party's "respected elders" should be a cause for concern for democratically minded Thais.
Leave Yingluck be
Oped, Postbag, Published on 13/01/2018
» Re: "Officials 'must capture Yingluck'," (BP, Jan 12). We should all extend our sympathy to the government for having to resist pressure from various sources to pursue extradition proceedings against Yingluck Shinawatra.
Don't rely on military
News, Postbag, Published on 14/01/2018
» Re: "Election obsessions", (PostBag, Jan 11). If Clara Holzer followed Thai-language mainstream media and social media, she would realise that the desire for a return to at least a form of democracy is not limited to the Bangkok Post, opposition Thai politicians and foreign governments. Indeed, even the junta is planning for elections later this year -- or so they say.
Raise the Thai game
News, Postbag, Published on 19/01/2018
» Re: "Making Thai passports more powerful", (Opinion, Jan 15).