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Road plan is off the rails
News, Published on 24/02/2018
» In its push to build a new expressway in parallel with the planned Brown Line monorail route in Bangkok, the government does not seem to have come up with a good business case beyond the need to make use of 281 abandoned pillars on the Kaset-Nawamin road -- ghosts from the 1990s. That is not a compelling enough reason.
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.
Words to the wise
News, Postbag, Published on 23/02/2018
» My daughter in Australia, knowing my love of the English language, recently sent me a list of archaic and now almost forgotten words that are so delightfully expressive that I believe they should be revived.
Allow peaceful protests
News, Postbag, Published on 22/02/2018
» I fully sympathise with those protesting against the junta's reneging on Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's promise, made in a press release co-signed by US President Donald Trump, to hold free and fair elections this November. They have every right to peacefully protest within the law.
Big Tu: hero to zero
News, Postbag, Published on 21/02/2018
» The government is cracking at the seams, and the down curve is inevitable.
Haze a concrete issue
Oped, Postbag, Published on 20/02/2018
» I am surprised that nobody to date has raised the possibility of the huge increase in concrete making sites contributing to the pollution. In the road behind where we live, Rama 9 Soi 19, there used to be four such sites, now there are nine and a 10th being erected. The huge area being developed adjacent to the MRT Depot in Huai Khwang has had its own concrete-making machine erected. Another site on Rama IX similarly has recently had one erected. Concrete dust particles are present in the air directly from these sites. Concrete mixer lorries throw up clouds of dust when leaving the sites, some also get rid of the remnants in the mixer by offloading at the side of the road, I suspect illegally.
Graft won't go away
News, Postbag, Published on 19/02/2018
» An old friend of mine, a reformed addict, used to tell me that "denial" wasn't just a river in Africa.
Sorry the hardest word
News, Postbag, Published on 18/02/2018
» Re: "Elections, corruption and Thai democracy" (Opinion, Feb 16).
Undoing of the web
News, Postbag, Published on 17/02/2018
» Re: "Watch-scandal shenanigans sully decent debate", (Opinion, Feb 15, 2018).
Fiddling figures
News, Postbag, Published on 16/02/2018
» Re: 'Watch-scandal polling shenanigans sully decent debate' (Opinion, Feb 15).