Opinion

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  • Phuket Opinion: Bangkok to have no-booze zones. Will Phuket be next? | Thaiger

    Phuket Opinion: Bangkok to have no-booze zones. Will Phuket be next?

    PHUKET: If what’s good for the capital is good for the country, then Phuket could soon have alcohol-free zones. According to a report this afternoon by the government’s National News Bureau, Bangkok is tipped to have such zones throughout the city, in a move to “curb violence that often stems from binge drinking.” But this is not a tsk-tsk ‘social…

  • Phuket Opinion: Please don’t sell our reservoirs | Thaiger

    Phuket Opinion: Please don’t sell our reservoirs

    PHUKET: After learning that a young man had been caught on a CCTV camera urinating into the local reservoir, the chief administrator of the Portland, Oregon Water Bureau in the US made a hasty decision last month. He ordered that all 7.8 million gallons be drained out of it. While Portland is far from Phuket, the controversial move that cost…