I was very dismayed to see that no Thai news channel covered the Nobel Peace Prize award to Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday evening.
Global news channels BBC and CNN covered the award programme live in its entirety.
What does that say about the state of news coverage here? After Mrs Suu Kyi chose to spend her first six days in a foreign country, here in Thailand, it seems she has already been forgotten.
MWB
Questions for Kittiratt
Re: ''Kittiratt: AEC favours the bold, so take your chances'' (Business, June 16). Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong compared the opening of the Asean Economic Community (AEC) in 2015 to a football game - a game in which Thailand must be more aggressive than defensive in order to win. That was vivid and brilliant.
However, I have two questions for Mr Kittiratt and this government pertaining to the AEC 2015.
First, how do we prepare for the inflows of money from richer countries - such as Singapore and Malaysia - from investors who may want to take over some sectors such as banking, commerce and even land in our country?
Second, how do we cope with the influx of labourers from neighbouring countries such as Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia as a result of the Yingluck government's higher wages scheme?
That being said, I think Mr Kittiratt has a bigger job at hand than to go around giving lectures.
VINT CHAVALA
Lamphun
Deplorable shootings
Re Saturday's Postbag letters about the student shootings. I'd like to submit some words if I may.
I'm an avid Bangkok Post reader, and without fail, I read daily about shootings (apart from the southern turmoil).
Every time I read about these events, I ask myself: ''Why?''. This is the ''land of smiles'' where most locals are so very friendly and kind - I'm bemused! I'm a citizen of a country (Australia) that is far from perfect, but things like student shootings, oh no!
My feeling is that there are some things very much adrift in Thai society. Remember, the young are a country's future.
Bless Thailand.
KEN W
Loei
Back renewable energy
Last month, German solar power plants produced 22 gigawatts of electricity per hour, equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity.
Germans have a pretty good handle on things mechanical. BMW, Porsche, Mercedes Benz _ just a few names which attest to that.
Perhaps Egat planners could learn a thing or two from German engineers in that regard.
I suggest: phase in solar while phasing out nuclear. Thailand hasn't yet gone radioactive, but Egat is eager to join the nuclear club.
Before spending tens of billions of baht on nuclear, Egat could invest half that amount in safer, cleaner energy production - whose fuel is free.
From a purely cost perspective, solar trumps nuclear - particularly when things go bad, as happened at Chernobyl and Fukushima.
Are Thais better at engineering and technical maintenance than their Russian and Japanese brethren? I'll leave it to the reader to decide.
KEN ALBERTSEN
Chiang Rai
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