Other Perspectives

I am always on the lookout for considered, sensitive and intelligent opinions. Reading and contemplating these enhances ones perspectives on current affairs.
On 3rd May, 2009 Kuldeep Nagi wrote an excellent letter to Postbag (Bangkok Post) captioned Thailand’s Troubles Are Ingrown.
In an equally considered and sensitive response, Songdej Praditsmanont responded on 4th May, 2009 in his [...]

The current Thai Government has launched a study on political reform that is supposedly going to take 8 months to complete.
The move has received a mixed reaction, with many thinking that the process was done sufficiently well when the 1997 Constitution was being drawn up. However, politicians were able to subvert that Constitution by undermining [...]

The school milk affair - another day, another scandal. Can’t anything be done here without being overshadowed by corruption? The usual investigation is under way, but that will not herald the last time corruption rears its head.
No, even a simple reduction in corruption as a norm in Thailand will require a sea change in Thai [...]

In a report headlined BMA faces tough questions over pub fire, the Bangkok Post of 4th February, 2009 highlighted an incredible tale of skulduggery progressively being exposed by the investigation.
Some excerpts, rearranged to group related items;
From Outright Forgery
Justice Minister Pirapan Salirathavibhaga has called on City Hall to investigate forged signatures on construction documents for the [...]

Three days ago I published Thailand’s Unsolved Crimes - Groundhog Day in which I lamented the corruption in Thailand’s Police Force, and the wonders that influence can achieve here.
The front page of the Bangkok Post 27th January, 2009 had an article Santika ‘left alone’ after CSD officer bought a stake which read in part;
Police stopped [...]