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There's devotion
Oped, Postbag, Published on 11/02/2018
» Re: “Ex-park staffer ‘aided hunting group’,” (BP, Feb 10). Not only the defence on the 25 “borrowed” wristwatches worth 39.5 million baht (“NACC vows to wrap up Prawit probe”, BP, Feb 10) challenges common decency of logic but your latest news of the deputy police chief considering charging Wichien Chinnawong, chief of the Western Thungyai Wildlife Sanctuary, for not having collected admission fees from the influential tycoon has given me a mixed feeling of either to laugh or cry.
Undoing of the web
News, Postbag, Published on 17/02/2018
» Re: "Watch-scandal shenanigans sully decent debate", (Opinion, Feb 15, 2018).
Bad marketing
News, Postbag, Published on 24/02/2018
» How could all five markets at the Seri Villa housing estate, Prawet, have been operating illegally, with some violating the building code as well? The markets have been operating in plain sight for years, with customers jamming streets with parked cars. BMA governor Pol Gen Aswin Kwanmuang is to be praised for quickly checking on the Prawet markets and vowing to review all 364 markets in Bangkok.
Plant claims hot air
News, Postbag, Published on 25/02/2018
» Re: "Ministry downplays need for southern power plants," (BP, Feb 23).
Hollow promises
News, Postbag, Published on 15/03/2018
» Most Thais see the ubiquitous rampant graft, but say that they have to accept this plague because they cannot improve things -- and so do nothing.
Don't let history repeat itself
News, Postbag, Published on 01/04/2018
» Last December, whistleblower CSI LA alerted us that DPM and Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwon had worn 22 ultra-luxurious watches, allegedly worth up to 36 million baht -- or about a decade of the DPM's government salary.
Prayut's stacked deck
News, Postbag, Published on 04/04/2018
» Re: "Abhisit shuns Prayut supporters", (BP, April 2).
Coining a catchy slogan
News, Postbag, Published on 08/04/2018
» Almost a year ago the disappearance of the memorial plaque of the 1932 Revolution was described in these pages as being both "hilarious and deeply sinister".
Clinging to power
News, Postbag, Published on 16/05/2018
» Four years after the junta seized power and promised to transform the nation through comprehensive reforms, that process has made either no or slow progress
Election dreams
Business, Postbag, Published on 02/06/2018
» Re: “Prawit vows February election”, (BP, June 1).