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Airing grievances
News, Postbag, Published on 14/02/2018
» This year I am early with my gripe in regards to the haze season.
Kra phoenix rises again
News, Editorial, Published on 13/02/2018
» The government has brought the Kra Canal proposal back to life. To be precise, it has ordered a study on a project it has officially renamed as Klong Thai. The new name is presumably a minor celebration of the new eternal Thai-ness campaign, Thai Niyom Yangyuen. A study may be in order, but all it can do is update the literally hundreds of studies, papers, recommendations and proposals of the past 341 years.
Happy mafia
News, Postbag, Published on 13/02/2018
» Re: "Drug gangs use Thailand as transit point to Malaysia", (BP, Feb 12).
Snouts in the trough
Postbag, Published on 12/02/2018
» I suggest that all the top civil servants, police officers and army generals who are unusually rich from stock market trading start a hedge fund.
All you need is love, and a sense of the absurd
Oped, Roger Crutchley, Published on 11/02/2018
» The approach of Valentine’s Day means we are heading into the annual silly season, although some might argue that in Thailand it is the silly season all year round. Valentine’s is admittedly one of the most spurious celebrations of the calendar, which probably explains why it becomes more popular here every year. However, it serves as a desperately needed break from the daily diet of depressing news.
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.
Lost in the dark?
News, Postbag, Published on 08/02/2018
» Without doubt the Thai public is about to witness an extravaganza worthy of a Disney cartoon epic that will clearly demonstrate the innocence of a magnificently wealthy construction tycoon caught up in a hunting event (BP, Feb 7).
Morality vs morale
News, Postbag, Published on 07/02/2018
» Re: "Prawit won't resign, to stay on in 'national interest'," (Online, Feb 5).
South shows peace signs
News, Editorial, Published on 06/02/2018
» The orchestrated "surrender" of nearly 300 men in Pattani last week is getting a rough reaction from some critics. They label it either a sham that means nothing or a misguided amnesty to admitted terrorists. The critics are wrong and the commander of the 4th Army commander is right. The welcoming "Bring People Home" ceremony won't end the southern insurgency and isn't meant to immediately bring peace. It's a true indication of the extremely difficult tasks at hand.
Taking down the West
News, Postbag, Published on 06/02/2018
» Re: "Media microphones", (Postbag, Feb 3).