Opinion

The Thaiger Opinion Columns.

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  • Phuket Opinion: Bull elephants should be banned from Thai tourism

    Phuket Opinion: Bull elephants should be banned from Thai tourism

    PHUKET: The terrible stomping death of a Swiss tourist by a berserk male elephant last week once again underscores the need to restrict tourism work to female elephants, as many operators who provide these services already do. (See story, current issue of the Phuket Gazette. Digital subscribers click here to download the full issue.) Riding through the jungle on the…

  • Phuket Opinion: Beach nipples not naughty

    Phuket Opinion: Beach nipples not naughty

    PHUKET: I note there is no space [for a reader to] comment on Blair Christopher’s online story ‘Phuket Nipple Alert: Staying abreast of nude on our beaches’. (See story here.) So [as a Phuket resident] I’d like to comment here on how it is apparently perfectly acceptable for the male walking along the beach in the accompanying picture to have…

  • PHUKET OPINION: Guns and gangs not child’s play

    PHUKET OPINION: Guns and gangs not child’s play

    PHUKET: Just hours before this editorial was written, friends of slain Phuket teenager Surachai (‘Neung’) Takuasook were burning his remains in the furnace of the crematorium in Baan Don village. (See front page story, current issue of the Phuket Gazette. Digital subscribers click here to download the full newspaper.) The shiny white coffin used to house Surachai’s body until it…