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Postbag: Comedy of errors
News, Published on 30/09/2014
» In the recent stage revival of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, a sketch loosely based around the Spanish Inquisition involves rather pathetic attempts to bludgeon an old lady into pleading guilty to unrevealed crimes. She is threatened with torture — namely, the rack.
Wage intellectual war against IS
News, Published on 30/09/2014
» The global financial crisis taught the world how profoundly interdependent our economies have become. In today's crisis of extremism, we must recognise we are just as interdependent for our security, as is clear in the current struggle to defeat the Islamic State (IS).
Vietnam eyes US weapons
News, Published on 30/09/2014
» A debate that deserves immediate and close attention in the region is nearing a conclusion in Washington. The United States is close to deciding to end its arms embargo on Vietnam. Hanoi has applied to buy P-3 Orion, unarmed surveillance aircraft. The obvious reason for such a purchase is to allow Vietnam to keep a closer watch on its coastline and, more to the point, activities by China in the South China Sea.
City needs urgent mass transportation expansion
News, Published on 30/09/2014
» The military government has promised to make much needed reforms to the country and return happiness to the people. One glaringly obvious area which they would do well to improve is Bangkok's public transportation sector.
The results are in
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 30/09/2014
» Which public poll have you read most recently? And if you actually buy those figures, what does that particular poll tell you about ourselves and our country?
Worker pride
News, Published on 29/09/2014
» The excellent editorial concerning the dire woes of Thai vocational education (BP, Sept 26) omitted one vital component necessary for a successful solution. It did not include the crucial involvement of the industry itself.
Cityscape re-imagined: Bangkok without billboards
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 29/09/2014
» My office is only about a kilometre from my house and, on a good day, I could probably cover the distance on foot in half an hour.
NLA lawsuit harms PM
News, Published on 29/09/2014
» A small group in the new legislature is taking a large risk by refusing to report assets and liabilities as ordered. In a stunning development, just over 10% of the National Legislative Assembly have simply defied the directive from the National Anti-Corruption Commission - the group last week filed a secretive petition in the Administrative Court in an attempt to circumvent the NACC's authority. The group's decision to keep this action from the public multiplies the lack of transparency to an unprecedented level.
Rice farmers must help themselves
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 29/09/2014
» Rice farmers recently asked for help from the government after a similar call from rubber growers in 16 southern provinces demanding intervention to arrest the seemingly unstoppable fall in rubber prices.
The big issue: Testing the water
Alan Dawson, Published on 28/09/2014
» The regime is beginning its fifth month in power with a couple of important outside trips. The message to the foreign community is — "We're here, we're not going away, so let's just get back to business as usual."