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    Welcome to the puppet show

    Asia focus, Umesh Pandey, Published on 25/08/2014

    » Yet again Thailand has made itself the laughing stock of the region with its attempts to apply a respectable veneer to total military rule. What else can we expect from a group of men in uniform with little respect for people's wishes for greater transparency?

  • OPINION

    The right order

    Published on 24/08/2014

    » Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa have thrown down the gauntlet at the feet of the West. Last month these five emerging economies launched a New Development Bank - nicknamed the "Brics Bank" - that combines features of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). Meanwhile, China has proposed an Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) that could compete with the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

  • OPINION

    Postbag: In praise of our one man show

    News, Published on 24/08/2014

    » It is always interesting to read Kong Rithdee’s opinion column. “Zero is a sign of our brave new world” (Opinion, Aug 23) is another example of Khun Kong’s baffling views. I don’t know how old Khun Kong is, nor would I dare ask, but I’m sure he has been around through a number of different governments to see how they all were ineffective due to personal interests of our representatives, both elected and appointed, how they squabbled and manipulated, how the budgets ran amok, how grandiose populist projects nearly wrecked the Thai economy, how promises were so easily made and as easily never kept, and so forth.

  • OPINION

    Homework cheats threaten system

    News, Published on 24/08/2014

    » We are teaching our children to cheat at an ever-earlier age. For as little as 50 baht, primary school children can get a page of homework completed for them so they can pass it off as their own. The harder the work, the steeper the price becomes. Those who are profiting are students in years above them, including high school students who find the answers a breeze.

  • OPINION

    Did you hear the one about the fat badger?

    News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 24/08/2014

    » The news has been so depressing this week we are desperately in need of some light relief. What better than to check out the jokes which were voted the funniest at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe which concludes this weekend in Scotland.

  • OPINION

    Poison in our meals

    News, Published on 23/08/2014

    » How shocking to read “Q mark veggies found unsafe” (BP, Aug 19), which indicated an apparent lack of concern from the National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity and Food Standards. Let’s use a better name for these unsafe chemicals and pesticides. Most recognise the good old “skull and crossbones” name of poison.

  • OPINION

    Zero is a sign of our brave new times

    News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 23/08/2014

    » With a fanfare the captain arrived at the stadium. He blew his magnificent whistle and kicked out the previous teams, the sordid squads of pirates, crooks, and assassins. Who'd let them in in the first place? The captain then installed the audience on the stands and asked them to cheer him on. He composed the team song. He picked the cheerleaders, the referees, the linesmen. He picked a new set of rules, the match day, the kick-off time. In the greatest move since Pele, Socrates and Aristotle combined, he picked the players — strikers, defenders, goalies, coaches, ball boys, mascots, etc. Everyone is on the same team, got it? That's why there's only one goal, not two. Then the captain took the field, dribbled like Messi + Ronaldo + Santa Claus, waltzing past immobile players (who're on his team), then he scored, and scored, and scored. He was crowned man of the match and the world cheered and roared.

  • OPINION

    Food safetyoff the menu

    News, Published on 23/08/2014

    » Amid widespread concerns about health hazards from pesticide-soaked vegetables and fruits, health-conscious consumers are willing to pay more for products they believe to be safe "from farm to table" as certified by the government's food standard agency. It turns out they are being cheated.

  • OPINION

    Thai authoritarianism: past and present

    News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 22/08/2014

    » Thailand’s political pendulum has swung wildly. It has now completed a dramatic reversal, pitting the electoral authoritarianism of Thaksin Shinawatra from the early 2000s against the thinly veiled dictatorship of General Prayuth Chan-ocha in the mid-2010s.

  • OPINION

    Postbag: Clean up the police

    News, Published on 22/08/2014

    » Re: “Top policeman arrested in drug bust” (BP, Aug 19).

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