OPINION

Not their fault

Re: "Uni staffer axed for swiping fees", (BP, Aug 17).

A Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University staffer stole tuition entrusted to her for payment to the university, and issued bogus receipts. She's been arrested, as she should be -- and the university's withholding the students' degrees because they hadn't paid their tuition.

But, the university is at fault for not following up when it didn't receive tuition due and not striking the students' names from enrolment/exam rolls promptly. Thus, it should give the victimised students grades, credits and degrees as if the students had paid those fees when due.

Re: "Fresh shelling around nuclear plant", (BP, Aug 17).

The stories trickling out of Vladimir Putin's war are awful. When Russian forces were kicked out of the occupied Ukrainian town of Yahidne, nearly 100 villagers were released from a dungeon there. They ranged in age from toddlers to a woman in her 90s. Nearly 10 died while imprisoned. They were crammed together in a totally dark basement, no heat and nearly no air. One small hole had been bored through a wall to get a tiny bit of air, but it was not enough for some of the inmates to stay alive.

All such atrocities are on the head of one person, overall. Mr Putin started the unnecessary and unprovoked war. It's been lose-lose for Mr Putin, who is also destroying his own country in the process. Is he sick in the head and/or does he just have a craving to spread suffering? You decide.

Re: "The roads are OK", "Govt success stories" and "Reputation risk", (PostBag, Aug 16).

Although I am a Singaporean living in Singapore, I have a very keen interest in Thailand. I have been visiting the beautiful Land of Smiles for over 30 years and as many times, probably more.

Today's letters are all well written and close to my heart. David Brown is right about Thai roads. I've taken numerous trips by coach from Bangkok to Chiang Mai and beyond. Roads are excellent. Jason Jellison is spot on. Good leaders know when it's time to quit. Bad ones hold on to power because it's intoxicating and addictive. John Law hits the nail on the head when he asks why Thailand allows Rajapaksa in.

Hats off to these three gentlemen. I will be in Thailand very soon and looking forward to a great time after the pandemic restrictions.

Re: "An invitation to war", (PostBag, Aug 15).

Mein Kampf has next to nothing to do with World War II. Whilst the tract has anti-Jewish and anti-Bolshevik diatribes, most of it concerns Hitler's early life and his particular fears including venereal disease and tobacco. Hitler's ally Mussolini described the book as too boring to read and full of inane cliches. That says it all.

Having started my working life as a cadet journalist on a national newspaper I am sympathetic to tight deadlines and distribution schedules. But the Bangkok Post's brief apology over recent months for offering us a severely emasculated paper on lottery draw day falls short.

What has lottery draw day got to do with distribution?

Perhaps if you explained the situation a little more, your readers could empathise with your situation and put up with a truncated newspaper once a month.