Re: "Regime takes credit for helping people fight debt", (BP, Sept 11).
It is sad that the country has to depend on Gen Prawit [Wongsuwon] to combat corruption from loan sharks pillaging the poor and taking advantage of those struggling in a stifled economy under a dictatorship and military regime.
Why would anyone believe that someone under investigation for flashy bling would be able to fight corruption of this magnitude?
Was there nobody else without such personal baggage that could have been appointed to handle this issue?
Someone who has no skeletons hanging out in their closet?
It would be easy to resolve the issue -- especially under martial law -- to declare that all debts to "informal creditors" (illegal loan sharks) be null and void.
That would create an instant end to this problem without any fuss and directly benefit millions of those held ransom by the illegal terms and practices of this modern economic bondage and slavery.
After clearing the books, make it so that only certified and accredited banking institutions are lenders where property and collateral are involved.
For Gen Prawit to work out negotiations with informal creditors is like negotiating with ransom demands from kidnappers.
It empowers the kidnappers (illegal lenders) and does nothing to end the practice.
The only out of this for everyone is to cease the activity.
Nothing less will do if you are serious about eliminating this corruption.
Darius Hober
Ugly side of sport
Re: "Serena needs to look in the morror", (Sports, Sept 15).
The writer, Jason Dasey, was right on the dot in comparing the mentality of a loser, Serena Williams, to that of the forever gentleman, Roger Federer.
Roger's presence is uplifting to the games in either as a winner or loser. He knows how to lose graciously.
Fortunately, the ugliness of the recent episode has revealed another side of goodness of the perfect maturity and gracefulness of the 20-year old winner, Naomi Osaka (The writer was mistaken as she was not booed by the crowd which was levied against the organiser as Serena gracefully assured Naomi of that fact).
One could hardly find faults with Naomi's reflections.
Not only she has portrayed herself as a sports lady under a difficult scenario well but also all the kind and respectful words attributed to Serena as a senior player.
I attribute her above-par demeanour to her Japanese mother and Haitian father and her subtle humour from American education.
As to the umpire, his response was sharp and conclusive that in tennis an a la carte arbitration does not exist.
Songdej Praditsmanont
Trump must go
Former secretary of state John Kerry is under fire for telling the Iranians to sit tight until US President Donald Trump leaves office. Mr Kerry happens to be right!
Consider the deal that Barack Obama got with Iran, in which both the UN and the US State Department acknowledged that what Iran honoured was a million times better than the phoney promises and symbolic gesture that Trump got from North Korea.
Thanks to Trump, Iran is now well within its rights to develop nuclear weapons.
We now know that even his own administration is working against Trump to prevent him from doing anything crazy.
The most that can be done is to sabotage this president as much as possible and just hope that the world as we currently know it is still here by the time we get that sociopath out of the White House.
Eric Bahrt
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